December 02, 2019

Holidays and Feasting in the Archaeological Record - Ep 17

53 minutes

On this ‘holiday special’, Alex and Simona once again push their endurance to the limit by talking about food before dinner-time. Tune in to learn more about feasting in the archaeological record, and why it is not all that different from present day feasting. To demonstrate this, our hosts describe some of their favourite holiday feasts (in addition to some listeners’ suggestions) and the reasoning behind them.

Ps. Happy birthday APN 🙂

Links and Sources

Hastorf C.A. (2008) Food and feasting, social and political aspects. In: Pearsall D.M. (ed) Encyclopedia of Archaeology. London: Elsevier Inc.

Nelson S.M. (2003) Feasting the Ancestors in Early China. In: Bray T.L. (eds) The Archaeology and Politics of Food and Feasting in Early States and Empires. Springer, Boston, MA

The Creation of Monuments: Neolithic Causewayed Enclosures in the British Isles

Prehistoric Britons rack up food miles for feasts near Stonehenge, study shows

World’s Oldest Bread Found By Archaeologists

I Can’t Believe It’s 3000 Year Old Butter

Feasting Archaeology and History

Early Pint Evidence of First British Bear Found in Cambridgeshire

Maisels, C. (2010) The Archaeology of Politics and Power: Where, When and Why the First States Formed. Oxford, Oxbow books

Russell, N. (2012) Social Zooarchaeology. Cambridge University Press.

Elliot, P. (2016) Food and Farming in Prehistoric Britain. Fonthill Media

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