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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790072003321

Autore

Gremillion Kristen J. <1958->

Titolo

Ancestral appetites : food in prehistory / / Kristen J. Gremillion [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-107-21963-9

1-139-06272-7

1-283-11079-2

9786613110794

1-139-07488-1

0-511-97635-6

1-139-06911-X

1-139-07713-9

1-139-07941-7

1-139-08169-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 182 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

SOC003000

Disciplina

394.1/209012

Soggetti

Prehistoric peoples - Food

Hunting and gathering societies

Food habits - History

Food preferences - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Ancestors; 2. Beginnings; 3. Foraging; 4. Farmers; 5. Hunger; 6. Abundance; 7. Contacts; 8. Extinctions; 9. Final thoughts.

Sommario/riassunto

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.