Archaeogastronomy: Grocery Lists as Seen from a Multidimensional Perspective
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Archaeogastronomy: Grocery Lists as Seen from a Multidimensional Perspective" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
From an archaeological perspective, studying food and food processing is a complex task that requires specialized tools and techniques. The development of new techniques, or new applications of well-established techniques, to apprehend the transformation of ingredients (plants, animals) into complex foods has permitted scholars to deepen their understanding of the ingredients used and also the manner in which foods were prepared in the past. In this session, entitled “Archaeogastronomy: Grocery Lists as Seen from a Multidimensional Perspective,” we wish to bring together scholars working in different parts of the world and on different periods to present their recent advances. We hope this session will stimulate future research and new collaborations.
Other Keywords
Subsistence and Foodways •
Paleolithic •
Zooarchaeology •
Paleoethnobotany •
Experimental Archaeology •
Use-Wear Analysis •
Neolithic •
Maya: Classic •
Material Culture and Technology •
Highland Mesoamerica: Classic
Geographic Keywords
Georgia (Country) •
United Mexican States (Country) •
Russian Federation (Country) •
Republic of Turkey (Country) •
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (Country) •
Republic of Iraq (Country) •
Islamic Republic of Iran (Country) •
State of Israel (Country) •
Lebanese Republic (Country) •
Syrian Arab Republic (Country)
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Assessing Plant Use in the Early Upper Paleolithic: Macrobotanical Results From Mughr el-Hamamah, Jordan (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Archaeogastronomy: Grocery Lists as Seen from a Multidimensional Perspective" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Mughr el-Hamamah (MHM) cave site, located on the Jordan Valley’s eastern flanks, contains a prehistoric layer associated with Early Ahmarian artifacts. AMS 14C dates bracket the Early Upper Paleolithic (EUP) occupation between ca. 45 and 39 ka cal BP and are comparable in age to Ahmarian-associated layers...
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GSTs and Foodscapes: Unfolding Homo sapiens’ Diet When Venturing the Eurasian Steppe (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Archaeogastronomy: Grocery Lists as Seen from a Multidimensional Perspective" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The surfaces of lithic artifacts, namely of ground stone tools (GSTs), are a rich repository of structured use-related biogenic residues (SU-RBR) such as starch, revealing the mechanical processing of starch-rich organs, naturally biodegradable and therefore vulnerable. The recovery of SU-RBR on the surfaces of...
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Identification of Avian Bone and Eggshell to Reveal Seasonal Foods From Ancient Wetlands (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Archaeogastronomy: Grocery Lists as Seen from a Multidimensional Perspective" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Wetlands provide a huge abundance and diversity of foods from aquatic plants and animals, many of which don't survive archaeologically. Those that do, such as the bones and eggs of aquatic birds, are often underutilized in archaeological interpretations due to the difficulty of their recovery and taxonomic...
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Mesolithic and Neolithic Recipes under the Microscope: A Comprehensive Approach for the Study of Archaeological Food Remains (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Archaeogastronomy: Grocery Lists as Seen from a Multidimensional Perspective" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Research into food in archaeology has traditionally focused on the potential resources and ingredients from the identification of recovered plant and animal remains, as well as cooking technologies including pottery, ground stone tools, fire installations, etc. However, the different processes behind the...
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Reconstructing Ancient Mesoamerican Cuisine through Innovative Imaging Techniques of Amorphous Carbonized Objects (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Archaeogastronomy: Grocery Lists as Seen from a Multidimensional Perspective" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeobotanists (paleoethnobotanists) often come across small, amorphous carbonized objects (ACO) in their flotation samples. However, identifying ACO’s is often difficult, and as such, they mostly remain unidentified. New ways are therefore necessary to study these objects, which, we hypothesize are in some...
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Replicating Plant Processing: Insights into Ancient Diets and Perishable Technologies (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Archaeogastronomy: Grocery Lists as Seen from a Multidimensional Perspective" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Investigating plant processing in the archaeological record is challenging due to the perishable nature of plant materials and their associated technologies, which are rarely preserved. We examine tools used for grinding and pounding, providing insights into the transformation of plant organs before their...
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A Zooarchaeological Reconstruction of the Grand Feast of Plaza of the Columns, Teotihuacan (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Archaeogastronomy: Grocery Lists as Seen from a Multidimensional Perspective" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Offering D1 represents the residue of an extravagant feast, involving a plethora of artifacts, over 25,000 ceramic fragments, and more than 50,000 animal bones ceremoniously “killed” and discarded in a pit excavated in an old plaza floor. We present the zooarchaeological report of this assemblage, focusing on...