Cookin’ with Cezin : Experimental Archaeology and Traditional Anishinabe-Algonquin Foodways
Author(s): Francis Lamothe; Karine Taché; Cezin Nottaway; Solomon Wawatay; Marie Trottier
Year: 2024
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Excavations carried out since 2016 on the shores of Grand Lac Nominingue, Quebec, Canada, have uncovered thousands of ceramic sherds in the ancestral territory of the Anishinabe-Algonquin First Nation. These discoveries demonstrate the use of pottery by a nomadic population and lipid analysis show that various products were prepared in these containers, whether game, fish or plants. As part of a collaborative project, internationally renowned chef Cezin Nottaway, assisted by her father Solomon Wawatay, joined our research team to recreate traditional recipes prepared in replicated vessels and cooked over open fires. These replicated vessels will be sampled and lipid analysis will be used to compare their chemical signatures with archaeological contexts. This contribution offers an overview of the results obtained during the first season of this culinary archeology project.
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Cookin’ with Cezin : Experimental Archaeology and Traditional Anishinabe-Algonquin Foodways. Francis Lamothe, Karine Taché, Cezin Nottaway, Solomon Wawatay, Marie Trottier. Presented at The 89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2024 ( tDAR id: 499340)
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Keywords
Geographic Keywords
North America: Canada
Spatial Coverage
min long: -141.504; min lat: 42.553 ; max long: -51.68; max lat: 73.328 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 38249.0