Food Futures: Culinary Archaeology and Anticipating the Future

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Culinary Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Imagining what a culinary archaeology might look like involves anticipating the future. In fact, all archaeological practice is concerned with the future even if it is not stated explicitly and archaeologists working on food preparation practices are no exception. As climate change continues to impact (at an alarming rate) sites, travel, collections, data management, social relationships, and the politics and economics of archaeological practice, we must consider the impact archaeological work has on contemporary issues. How might a culinary archaeology help or harm food-related problems that are visible in the present and will become more pronounced in the future? How can we employ information gleaned from the past to inform future practices? This paper will argue that anticipating what archaeological research into food means for the future will focus our scholarship, more explicitly connect the present with the past, and work toward solving food-related problems of the future.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Culinary Archaeology   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36674.0