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Traditional Dishes and Culinary Improvisations: Elite Gastronomy in the Maya Area (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Esteban Herrera-Parra. Melanie Pugliese. Shanti Morell-Hart.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past few decades, understandings of cuisine in the Maya area have been radically amplified by the use of new techniques. Some methods offer the opportunity to directly connect artifacts and features with actual plant food residues. The ability to recover microscopic residues of food from sediments, artifacts, and human teeth has revealed not only...