Fruits de la Mer - Ep 193

Welcome to episode one of our themed month: The Dirt at Sea! The oceans (and seas and lagoons and fjords and so on) have provided people with food and other resources for hundreds of thousands of years. We’ll be discussing some examples of this from the archaeological record. We’ll also investigate how archaeology can get at the relationship between people and the big blue – and it’s much more than just reconstructing ancient coastlines.

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Links

• Living Ocean (NASA Science)

• Last Interglacial Iberian Neandertals as fisher-hunter-gatherers (Science)

• Neanderthals Really Liked Seafood (Smithsonian)

• Indigenous oyster fisheries persisted for millennia and should inform future management (Nature Communications)

• North American and Australian Indigenous Communities Farmed Oysters for 5,000-10,000 Years (Sci-News)

• Research Shares Importance Of Studying Indigenous Oyster Farming History (Tasting Table)

• Indigenous oyster fisheries were ‘fundamentally different’: Q&A with researcher Marco Hatch (Mongabay)

• Cetacean exploitation in Roman and medieval London (Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports)

• Guidance Note for Dealing with Stranded Whales, Dolphins and other large Marine Wildlife on Kent Coast (Kent City Council)

• Seeking Prehistoric Fermented Food in Japan and Korea (Current Anthropology)

• Thule Winter House (The Canadian Encyclopedia)

• Ancient seafarers may have hunted whales around the world (Science)

• Archaeologists Unearth Hollowed-Out Whale Vertebra Containing Human Jawbone, Remains of Newborn Lambs (Smithsonian)

• The Earliest Shell Fishhooks From The Americas Reveal Fishing Technology Of Pleistocene Maritime Foragers (American Antiquity)

• More Than 30 Million Years Ago, Monkeys Rafted Across the Atlantic to South America (Smithsonian)

• Human evolution: Small remains still pose big problems (Nature)

• On Crete, New Evidence of Very Ancient Mariners (New York Times)

• Scientists reveal how seascapes of the ancient world shaped genetic structure of European populations (Science Daily)

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You Are What You Eat (LIVE!) - Ep 177

How do we know what people ate in the past? How did they make their food? How did food fit into the social aspect of life in the past? We discuss old old recipes, spicy Sichuanese history, an herbal mystery, how food changed our faces, and more!

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Links

• Stone Age spices (NPR)

• Garlic Mustard Phytoliths (PLOS One)

• Oldest Noodles Found in China (BBC)

• Decoding Ancient Recipes (BBC)

• Roman food blogger Apicius (Wikipedia)

• History of Spice in Sichuan (University of Illinois)

• Why Revolutionaries Love Spicy Food (Nautilus)

• Cooking Before Ceramics (The Atlantic)

• Monte Testaccio (Archaeology Magazine)

• Oyster Middens (Atlas Obscura)

• Oyster Midden Exhibit (University of Maine)

• Silphium, an Herbal Mystery (BBC)

• What is Silphium?

• Early Dilmun Diet (Journal of Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy)

• Facial Changes due to Diet (PLOS One)

• Changes in Skull Features (PNAS)

• How Forks Gave us Overbites (The Atlantic)

• Lynne Olver’s Food Timeline (Eater.com)

• Virginia Tech Saves the Food Timeline (Eater.com)

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Tiny Plants: Paleoethnobotany with Special Guest Dr. Madelynn von Baeyer - Ep 83

Anna and Amber chat with Dr. Madelynn von Baeyer about archaeological plants. How do you find 'em? What can they tell us? What's the best archaeological plant? And what does any of this have to do with MUMMIES?!?

Links

• Madelynn von Baeyer Bio

• Early Lives: The Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age at Çadır Höyük (Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology & Heritage Studies)

• Three Ancient Egyptian Coffins at Harvard University (Sketchfab)

• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

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Eat Locally: The Archaeology of Indigenous American Food - Ep 80

This week, Anna and Amber take a look at foodways in the archaeological record of North America. What does archaeological evidence say about what was cooked, who was cooking, and what vessels were used to prepare and store food? What evidence is there for recreating ancient and pre-contact diets? How does this fit in with contemporary food sovereignty movements among Indigenous people? How great are potatoes? All this and more!

Links

• Archaeological Studies of Cooking and Food Preparation (Journal of Archaeological Research)

• Reconstructing sexual divisions of labor from fingerprints on Ancestral Puebloan pottery (PNAS)

• Traditional Foods in Native America (CDC)

• Countryman: Foraging California's Wild Side

• What is mak-’amham? (Cafe Ohlone)

• Investigating the function of prehistoric stone bowls and griddle stones in the Aleutian Islands by lipid residue analysis (Quaternary Research)

• One of the Oldest Spuds In the World Is Poised For a Comeback (Heated by Medium)

• North American Indian Recipes – Acorn Recipes & Facts! (The People’s Paths)

• Native American Food (Arkansas Archaeological Survey)

• The Mitsitam Cafe Cookbook: Recipes from the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (via WorldCat)

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