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Ancestral appetites : food in prehistory /
"This book explores the relationship between prehistoric people and their food - what they ate, why they ate it, and how researchers have pieced together the story of past foodways from material traces. Contemporary human food traditions encompass a seemingly infinite variety, but all are essen...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011, ©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "This book explores the relationship between prehistoric people and their food - what they ate, why they ate it, and how researchers have pieced together the story of past foodways from material traces. Contemporary human food traditions encompass a seemingly infinite variety, but all are essentially strategies for meeting basic nutritional needs developed over millions of years. Humans are designed by evolution to adjust our feeding behavior and food technology to meet the demands of a wide range of environments through a combination of social and experiential learning. In this book, Kristen J. Gremillion demonstrates how these evolutionary processes have shaped the diversification of human diet over several million years of prehistory. She draws on evidence extracted from the material remains that provide the only direct evidence of how people procured, prepared, presented, and consumed food in prehistoric times"--Provided by publisher |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 182 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-175) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139077132 1139077139 9781139079419 1139079417 0521898420 9780521898423 0521727073 9780521727075 9780511976353 0511976356 1107219639 9781107219632 1139062727 9781139062725 1283110792 9781283110792 9786613110794 6613110795 1139074881 9781139074889 1139081691 9781139081696 |