The Social Archaeology of Food: Thinking about Eating from Prehistory to the Present Southern This book was made possible

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The Social Archaeology of Food: Thinking about Eating from Prehistory to the Present Southern This book was made possibleThis book offers a global perspective on the role food has played in shaping human societies, through both individual and collective identities. It integrates ethnographic and archaeological case studies from the European and Near Eastern Neolithic, Han China, ancient Cahokia, Classic Maya, the Inka and many other periods and regions, to ask how the meal in particular has acted as a social agent in the formation of society, economy, culture and