Fermented and alcoholic beverages played a pivotal role in feastings and social events in
past agricultural and urban societies across the globe, but the origins of the sophisticated …

The Archaeology of Food explains how archaeologists reconstruct what people ate, and
how such reconstructions reveal ancient political struggles, religious practices, ethnic …

Ancient starch research illuminates aspects of human ecology and economic botany that
drove human evolution and cultural complexity over time, with a special emphasis on past …

Ground stone tool (GST) technology includes artefacts utilized in pounding or grinding
activities and characterized by long life cycles and multiple uses. The introduction of such …

The analysis of starch grains from food-related archaeological artefacts and human dental
calculus has provided evidence for the consumption of plant resources worldwide. Recently …

Microfossil analyses of three early Neolithic pottery vessels from Xiaohuangshan, a middle
Shangshan culture site in Zhejiang (ca. 9000–8500 cal. BP), revealed the earliest evidence …

Starch residue analysis was carried out on stone tools recovered from the bottom layer of the
Anakena site on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). These deposits have been dated to AD 1000 …

Çatalhöyük is a renowned archaeological site in central Anatolia, best known for its Neolithic
occupation dated from 7100 to 6000 cal BC. The site received worldwide attention early on …

Descriptions of precolonial foodways in the Caribbean Islands have relied primarily on
contact-period European descriptions, which have been used to inform archaeological …

The prehistory of wild potato use, leading to its domestication and diversification, has been
well-documented in, and confined to, South America. At least 20 tuber-bearing, wild species …