Materiality, Identity & Culture: A New Narrative of Irish Food History

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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Materialities: Tracing Connections through Materiality of Daily Life", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

FoodCult is a dynamic interdisciplinary research initiative that explores diet and foodways in early modern Ireland. Drawing from FoodCult’s ground-breaking database of comparative archaeological evidence throughout the island of Ireland, this paper will showcase elements of the fundamentals of everyday diet and food choices in the 1550-1650 period in Ireland. In this session, Ireland is contextualized within the broader global framework of developments in the late-sixteenth/early-seventeenth century. The chosen case studies will highlight material finds that touch upon a plethora of aspects including intercultural contact, political conflict, colonial endeavors, and the burgeoning Atlantic world economy, illuminating the cultural change and continuity experienced during the tumultuous extension of British control in Ireland.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023   •
• Global Materialities: Tracing Connections through Materiality of Daily Life

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