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THE PREHISTORY OF FOOD

The production and consumption of food can tell us much about how different cultures

constructed and perceived their environment. The distinction between what is regarded as

edible and inedible and the ecological systems in which people live are not just a passive

backdrop to life but important indications of prevailing social and cultural systems. The

Prehistory of Food discusses the changing uses of food in prehistory and sets subsistence

firmly within its social context.

This collection presents studies from across the globe examining the interrelationships

of food, biology and ecology. The contributors investigate the different roles food plays

in culture: as an object of consumption and, subsequently, an important factor of

socioeconomic change, as an agent of innovation affecting agriculture and methods of

preparation and cooking, as a vital part of the landscape and as an important influence on

the history of humans and plants. The Prehistory of Food contains case studies ranging

from the rainforest groups of South America, to peoples of the desert fringes of Asia, to

farmers in the Highlands of New Guinea. The book charts the movements of plants over

the last 5,000 years, and with an impressive wealth of archaeological, genetic, botanical

and linguistic evidence it tells the complex and fascinating story of the relationship

between humans and their food.

T he Prehistory of Food is of interest to all students and academics in the fields of

archaeology, anthropology and archaeobotany.

C hris Gosden is Lecturer in Archaeology and curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum,

University of Oxford. Jon Hather is Lecturer in Archaeology at the Institute of

Archaeology, University College London.

ONE WORLD

ARCHAEOLOGY

Series Editor: P.J.Ucko

Animals into Art

H.Morphy (ed.), vol. 7

Archaeological Approaches to Cultural Identity

S.J.Shennan (ed.), vol. 10

Archaeological Heritage Management in the Modern World

H.F.Cleere (ed.), vol. 9

The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape: shaping your landscape

P.J.Ucko & R.Layton (eds), vol. 30

Archaeology and Language I: theoretical and methodological orientations

R.Blench & M.Spriggs (eds), vol. 27

Archaeology and Language II: archaeological data and linguistic hypotheses

R.Blench & M.Spriggs (eds), vol. 29

Archaeology and the Information Age: a global perspective

P.Reilly & S.Rahtz (eds), vol. 21

The Archaeology of Africa: food, metals and towns

T.Shaw, P.Sinclair, B.Andah & A.Okpoko (eds), vol. 20

Centre and Periphery: comparative studies in archaeology

T.C.Champion (ed.), vol. 11

Conflict in the Archaeology of Living Traditions

R.Layton (ed), vol. 8

Domination and Resistance

D . Miller, M.J.Rowlands & C.Tilley (eds), vol.3

Early Human Behaviour in Global Context: the rise and diversity of the Lower

Pælaeolithic Record

M.Petraglia & R.Korisettar (eds), vol. 28

The Excluded Past: archaeology in education

P.Stone & R.MacKenzie (eds), vol. 17

Foraging and Farming: the evolution of plant exploitation

D.R.Harris & G.C.Hillman (eds), vol. 13

From the Baltic to the Black Sea: studies in medieval archaeology

D.Austin & L.Alcock (eds), vol. 18

Historical Archaeology: back from the edge

P.P.A.Funari, M.Hall & S.Jones (eds), vol. 31

Hunters of the Recent Past

L.B.Davis & B.O.K.Reeves (eds), vol. 15

The Meanings of Things: material culture and symbolic expression

I.Hodder (ed.), vol. 6

The Origins of Human Behaviour

R.A.Foley (ed.), vol. 19

The Politics of the Past

P.Gathercole & D.Lowenthal (eds), vol. 12

The Prehistory of Food: appetites for change

C.Gosden & J.Hather (eds), vol. 32

The Presented Past: heritage, museums and education

P.Stone & B.L.Molyneaux (eds), vol. 25

Sacred Sites, Sacred Places

D.L.Carmichael, J.Hubert, B.Reeves & A.Schanche (eds), vol. 23

Signifying Animals: human meaning in the natural world

R.G.Willis (ed.), vol. 16

Social Construction of the Past: representation as power

G.C.Bond & A.Gilliam (eds), vol. 24

State and Society: the emergence and development of social hierarchy and political

centralization

J.Gledhill, B.Bender & M.T.Larsen (eds), vol. 4

Time, Process and Structural Transformation in Archaeology

S.E.van der Leeuw & J.McGlade (eds), vol. 26

Tropical Archaeobotany: applications and developments

J.G.Hather (ed.), vol. 22

The Walking Larder: patterns of domestication, pastoralism, and predation

J.Clutton-Brock (ed.), vol. 2

What is an Animal?

T.Ingold (ed.), vol. 1

What’s New? A closer look at the process of innovation

S.E. van der Leeuw & R. Torrence (eds), vol. 14

Who Needs the Past? Indigenous values and archaeology

R.Layton (ed.), vol. 5

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