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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2012
Print publication year:
2011
Online ISBN:
9780511976353
Subjects:
Prehistory, Archaeology

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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 essentially strategies for meeting basic nutritional needs developed over millions of years. Humans are designed by evolution to adjust our feeding behaviour 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.

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'This is fine popular science, with none of the excesses that accompany other similar efforts to explore human diet.'

Jeremy Cherfas Source: Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog (agro.biodiver.se)

'The author’s comfort with a wide variety of biological (botanical and zoological), anthropological, and archaeological evidence is apparent, and her ready grasp of the material allows the work to flow fluidly.'

William Pestle Source: American Anthroplogist

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