Where: Bldg. 9 Lecture Hall 2325
Description
Food Archaeology is a recent research domain that aims to reconstruct the diet of past populations. It is a multidisciplinary discipline that is supported by various scientific studies: food remains, both plant (paleoethnobotany) and animal (zooarchaeology); analysis of human bone and teeth (paleoanthropology); coprolites; and residue found in vases. Beyond the reconstruction of the diet, it is also possible to understand the role of food in the economy and its impact in the culture of past societies. We aim to introduce the different scientific approaches in a pedagogical way accessible to all and show how they can contribute to advancing archaeological understanding on some specific case studies. Three themes: Cultural Identities in foodways, Gendered foodways, Taboo, moral and ritual foods.
Christine Hastorf
Christine Hastorf focuses on social life, political change, agricultural production, foodways, and the methodologies that lead to a better understanding of the past through the study of plant-use. She has written on agricultural production, cooking practices and what shifts in these suggest about social relations, gender relations surrounding plant use, the rise of complex society, political change and the symbolic use of plants in the legitimation of authority, fuel use and related symbolism, and plant domestication as part of social identity construction and ritual and social identity. She is particularly interested in wild plant use as compared to domesticates, identifying the stages in plant processing, their participation in social construction, and especially their participation and reflection of the symbolic and the political, in addition to the playing out of the concept of culture in the natural world. http://anthropology.berkeley.edu/users/christine-hastorf
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