Victorian Dining and Class in the San Francisco Bay Area

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Victorian food consumption with its complex etiquette and changing fashions results in assemblages with a bewildering number of vessel types. In this paper I consider how Victorian dining varied along class lines by comparing assemblages from 86 features excavated in the Bay Area over the past three decades by the Anthropological Studies Center of Sonoma State University. I present the frequency of different vessel types across the assemblages, identify the basic urban table setting, and how this basic setting is elaborated in different ways by working class and middling households.

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• Society for Historical Archaeology 2024   •
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