Ancestral appetites : food in prehistory /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gremillion, Kristen J., 1958- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011, ©2011.
Temas:
Prehistoric peoples > Food.
Hunting and gathering societies.
Food habits > History.
Food preferences > History.
Sociétés préhistoriques > Alimentation.
Chasseurs-cueilleurs.
Habitudes alimentaires > Histoire.
Préférences alimentaires > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
Food habits
Food preferences
Hunting and gathering societies
Prehistoric peoples > Food
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Ancestors. Our ancient heritage
  • Our unique heritage
  • Beginnings. The Australopithecines and their kin
  • Man the hunter, woman the gatherer
  • Bones, butchery, and the scavenging hypothesis
  • A closer look at the fossil record
  • History in the body : evolutionary anatomy and molecular markers
  • Cooking
  • Foraging. The Upper Paleolithic revolution?
  • The Late Pleistocene world
  • New tools, new tactics : the food quest in the Late Pleistocene
  • Farmers. The questions
  • The natural history of agriculture
  • The human factor : decisions and revisions
  • Better living through chemistry
  • Agriculture, adaptation, strategy, and tradition
  • Hunger. Food supply in a changing environment
  • Hunger in nature
  • Hunger and human societies
  • Fighting hunger : culture and creativity
  • Abundance. Abundance in nature
  • Surplus, sharing, and human socities
  • The uses of abundance
  • Abundance, diet, and health : the effects of social inequality
  • Beyond storage and sharing : surplus as symbol
  • Contacts. Acceptance and dispersal of novel foods
  • The spread of agriculture in prehistoric Europe
  • Eating, drinking, and Roman expansion
  • Peaches, cowpeas, melons, and hogs : old world foods in Southeastern North America
  • The global reach of foodways
  • Extinctions. Man versus mammoth
  • Invasion of the island snatchers
  • Firestarters
  • Chewing the scenery
  • Final thoughts. Nostalgia for the Pleistocene
  • Hunger on a crowded planet
  • The conservation conundrum
  • Food, prehistory, and human nature.

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