Bread, Beer, and Beef: Diet of Seventeenth-Century Harvard College

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

While historical documents can provide a plethora of information for the historical archaeologist, they are often incomplete in revealing holistic images of the day-to-day life of humans that lived centuries ago. This poster presentation outlines my ongoing research on the diet of students at seventeenth-century Harvard College. In particular, I address the question, To what degree is the archaeological assemblage recovered by the Harvard Yard Archaeology Project represented or not in Harvard College archives? This poster includes data acquired from archival research and contemporary faunal analysis, including ZooMS, a proteomic method that can identify the species of the smallest of bones, to better understand the lived experiences of the English and Indigenous students at the first Puritan educational setting in North America.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 35937.0