Ancestral appetites : food in prehistory /

This book explores the relationship between prehistoric people and their food - what they ate, why they ate it and how researchers have pieced together the story of past foodways from material traces. Contemporary human food traditions encompass a seemingly infinite variety, but all are essentially...

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Main Author: Gremillion, Kristen J., 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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