Archaeologist Martin Jones' new book, Feast: Why Humans Share Food, is a fascinating look at the impact that sharing food has had on our human natures, and vice versa.
Feast: Why Humans Share Food
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Using imagined meals from excavated archaeological sites as a starting point for discussion, Jones explores several human meals beginning with Homo erectus and ending with TV dinners of the 1950s. Each chapter then discusses social history, that is to say, the changes in behavior that developed over time and how those changes resonate in our shared meals today.
A thoroughly engaging book, Feast: Why Humans Share Food also challenges us, combining anthropological theory with the nuts and bolts of archaeological science--lipids, cut marks and phytoliths; and explains all of that in a clear voice familiar to those who have read Jones' previous work, The Molecule Hunt.
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