FoodCult: Food, Culture and Identity in Ireland, c.1550-1650
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2023
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "FoodCult: Food, Culture and Identity in Ireland, c.1550-1650," at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Funded by the European Research Council, FoodCult is a five-year comparative research project that explores food, culture, and identity in early modern Ireland, c. 1550-1650. This was a period of major economic and technological development, globalization, religious reform, and unprecedented intercultural contact. It was also a period of conquest, colonization, and conflict in Ireland.
Radically interdisciplinary in its approach, FoodCult integrates historical archaeology, social history, zooarchaeology, bioarchaeology, geochemistry, and digital technologies to examine how Ireland’s complex intercultural society identified and interacted through food and foodways, shedding light, not just on consumption patterns, but on Ireland’s broader economic and social development.
Drawing on their diverse analytical methods, the authors in this session will elucidate the multifaceted and highly contested ethnic, religious, and political relationships between local, national, and global currents of change, illuminating how these relationships might be interpreted through the archaeological and historic record, corroborated by scientific approaches and analysis.
Other Keywords
Food •
Isotopes •
beer •
Pottery •
Zooarchaeology •
Diet •
Dairy •
Meat •
Plants •
Consumption
Geographic Keywords
Northern Ireland (State / Territory) •
Ireland (Country) •
Ulster (State / Territory) •
Leinster (State / Territory) •
Munster (State / Territory) •
Connacht (State / Territory) •
Ireland •
Europe (Continent) •
UK
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- Documents (7)
- Foamy, Fermented and Fractionated: Does Beer Consumption Create Confusion for Oxygen Isotope Analysis of Humans? (2023)
- Identifying Foodways In Early Modern Ireland Using A Multi-isotope Approach (2023)
- Investigating Diet And Foodways In Post-medieval Ireland Using Organic Residue Analysis (2023)
- Meat And Dairy In The Diet Of Early Modern Ireland (2023)
- A New Survey of Plant Foods in Post-medieval Ireland: Evidence from Archaeobotany (2023)
- Understanding Early Modern Beer: An Interdisciplinary Approach (2023)
- Using Household Accounts As Evidence of Food Consumption: Perspectives From Early Modern Ireland (2023)