Social Spaces between Diet and Foodways

Summary

PEB practitioners are increasingly drawing from social perspectives which allow them to shift between concepts of diet and foodways. This increasingly social paleoethnobotany is bolstered by rigorous quantitative analyses of large datasets that facilitate the exploration of temporal and spatial nuances in ancient plant assemblages. This marriage between social theory, analytical rigor, and large datasets is further strengthened by the trend towards integrating multiple proxies of food data (e.g., starch, phytoliths, macroremains, faunal remains). Ultimately, an integrated, multi-proxy analysis of large plant datasets informed by social archaeological approaches allows PEB to lead research in areas related to gender, identity, warfare, culture contact, and many more.

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• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
• The cutting edge of American Palaeoethnobotany

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