The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Diet

Herausgeber: Lee-Thorp, Julia; Katzenberg, M Anne

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Produktbeschreibung

Presenting research on the evolution and diversity of human diet from earliest ancestors to modern days, this Handbook is divided into 3 sections, addressing the diets of early humans, the complexity of dietary adaptations as humans spread across the globe and developed agriculture, and the health and disease correlates of multiple modern diets.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 784
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 178mm x 46mm
• Gewicht: 1700g
• ISBN-13: 9780199694013
• ISBN-10: 019969401X
• Artikelnr.: 69827073

Autorenporträt

Julia Lee-Thorp obtained her PhD in Archaeology at the University of Cape Town in 1989, where she continued to work before her appointment as Research Professor of Archaeological Sciences at the University of Bradford in 2005. In 2010 she moved to the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford before retiring in 2019. She is best known for demonstrating the long-term integrity of stable isotopes in enamel, findings that opened opportunities to explore dietary ecology and environments in the distant and more recent pasts. She has carried out research across the globe, but her main focus remains in African archaeology and palaeoanthropology. M. Anne Katzenberg completed her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Toronto in 1983. After teaching there for two years, she accepted a position at the University of Calgary where she remained until her retirement in 2019. Her research focused on past human diet and the interaction of diet, disease, and population dynamics. She contributed to early research on the use of nitrogen isotopes for determining the duration of nursing and to debates on the timing of maize cultivation and intensification in North America. Her research collaborations include documenting riverine dietary adaptations in Texas and exploring population dynamics in ancient Paquimé, Mexico.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Part I: Evolutionary Perspectives
* 1: Frederick E. Grine: Reconstructing extinct hominin diets:
Paradigms, prospects, and pitfalls
* 2: Margaret J. Schoeninger, William C. McGrew, and Caroline Phillips:
Evolutionary implications of non-human primate diets
* 3: Sireen El Zaatari and Peter S. Ungar: From earlier to later
hominins: dental microwear approaches and perspectives
* 4: Matt Sponheimer and Julia Lee-Thorp: Tooth enamel biogeochemistry
and early hominin diets
* 5: Gabriele A. Macho: The implications of morphology, mechanics, and
microstructure of teeth for understanding dietary drivers in human
evolution
* 6: Richard Wrangham and Rachel Carmody: Influences of the control of
fire on the energy value and composition of the human diet
* 7: Henry T. Bunn, Travis Rayne Pickering, and Manuel
Dominguez-Rodrigo: How meat made us human: Archaeological evidence of
the diet and foraging capabilities of Early Pleistocene Homo in East
Africa
* 8: Eugene Morin, John D. Speth, and Julia Lee-Thorp: Middle
Palaeolithic diets: a critical examination of the evidence
* 9: Antonieta Jerardino: Shell middens and seashores: Marine molluscs
in the diets of emerging modern humans in southern Africa
* Part II: Diversity of Human Diets in the Past
* 10: M. Anne Katzenberg: Introductory essay: Introduction to Diversity
of Human Diets in the Past
* Africa
* 11: Peter Mitchell: 'Discourse on rivers, and fish and fishing':
Freshwater aquatic resources and hunter-gatherers in southern African
prehistory
* 12: Judith Sealy: Intensification, diet, and group boundaries among
Later Stone Age coastal hunter-gatherers along the western and
southern coasts of South Africa
* Eurasia
* 13: Robert J. Losey, M. Anne Katzenberg, and Tatiana Nomokonova:
Middle Holocene fishing and hunting in the Baikal region of Siberia
* 14: Rick J. Schulting: Dietary shifts at the Mesolithic-Neolithic
transition in Europe: An overview of the stable isotope data
* 15: Dorian Q. Fuller and Cristina Castillo: Diversification and
cultural construction of a crop: the case of glutinous rice and waxy
cereals in the food cultures of eastern Asia
* 16: Amy Bogaard and Amy Styring: Plants, people, and diet in the
Neolithic of western Eurasia
* The Americas
* 17: John P. Hart: New trends in prehistoric Northeastern North
American agriculture evidence: a view from Central New York
* 18: Clark Spencer Larsen: Dietary transition in the Late Holocene
Eastern North America: the orofacial record of masticatory function,
nutritional quality, and health in maize farmers
* 19: George R. Milner, Jane E. Buikstra, and Anna C. Novotny: Stepwise
transition to agriculture in the American Midcontinent
* 20: Christine D. White: Isotopic anthropology of ancient Maya diets
* 21: J. Scott Raymond: Evolution of diet and the food economy in Peru
and Ecuador: 10,000 to 500 B.P.
* Oceania and South East Asia
* 22: Melinda S. Allen: Dietary opportunities and constraints on
islands: A multi-proxy approach to diet in the southern Cook Islands
* 23: Judith Littleton and Rachel Scott: Identifying dietary
variability in Southern Australia from scarce remains
* 24: Cristina Castillo and Dorian Q. Fuller: Bananas: The spread of a
tropical forest fruit as an agricultural staple
* Part 3: Diet, Health, and Disease across the Lifespan
* 25: Stanley J. Ulijaszek: Diet, nutrition, and disease across the
lifespan
* 26: Sabrina C. Agarwal and Melanie J. Miller: Nutrition and bone loss
in antiquity
* 27: Pascale Gerbault, Catherine Walker, Katherine Brown, Ekaterina
Yonova-Doing, and Mark G. Thomas: The evolution of lactose tolerance
in dairying populations
* 28: Linda M. Reynard: How 'best' to determine trophic levels in
archaeological agricultural communities
* 29: Frank Huelsemann, Karsten Koehler, and Ulrich Flenker: Effects of
heavy exercise and restricted diet regimes on nitrogen balance and
body composition
* 30: Emöke J.E. Szathmáry: Pre-contact diets of indigenous subarctic
peoples of North America
* 31: Emöke J.E. Szathmáry: Dietary change in populations of the North
American Subarctic
* 32: John P. Ziker: Diets of hunter-gatherers in the Arctic and
Subarctic
* 33: Warren M. Wilson and Darna L. Dufour: Reliance upon a toxic
staple crop: an anthropological consideration of the Tukanoan
Amerindian cultivation of manioc (Manihot esculenta Crantz ssp.
esculenta) in Northwestern Amazonia