Investigating Soldiers' Foodways

Author(s): Alexandra L Simmons

Year: 2013

Summary

War provides fertile ground for research on comestibles, because food is often the reason for conflict and is essential to an army on the move.  Archaeological excavations have been carried out at many redoubts and camps occupied during the Waikato Campaign of the New Zealand Wars, 1860s – 1870s.  Most of the excavations have been limited by the constraints of development based briefs, which has resulted in a paucity of in depth research. In this paper the model used to investigate soldiers’ foodways in the Waikato will be presented, as well as some of the findings.

Cite this Record

Investigating Soldiers' Foodways. Alexandra L Simmons. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Leicester, England, U.K. 2013 ( tDAR id: 428269)

Keywords

General
Foodways research model Soldiers

Geographic Keywords
New Zealand Oceania

Temporal Keywords
1860-80

Spatial Coverage

min long: -176.843; min lat: -50.852 ; max long: 178.558; max lat: -34.415 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

Record Identifiers

PaperId(s): 185