Fuller, DQ;
Gonzalez Carretero, L;
(2018)
The archaeology of Neolithic cooking traditions: archaeobotanical approaches to baking, boiling and fermenting.
Archaeology International
, 21
(1)
pp. 109-121.
10.5334/ai-391.
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Abstract
The Neolithic was not only a shift in how food was obtained, through farming, but it also set up long-lasting traditions in how foods were prepared and cooked. Archaeologists have increasingly recognized regionally distinctive emphases on cereal preparations, such as baked breads or boiled porridges that characterize different Neolithic traditions. While these can be inferred through features, such as ovens on archaeological sites, it has become possible to recognize the charred crumbs of past breads, batters or porridges from typical charred archaeobotanical assemblages. We illustrate recent developments in micro-structural analysis of such remains, including wheat breads from Neolithic and pre-Neolithic western Asia, and sorghum breads and porridges from Early Historic (Meroitic) Sudan. The study of such archaeobotanical remains has great potential to help map the distribution of cereal cooking practices in time and space.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The archaeology of Neolithic cooking traditions: archaeobotanical approaches to baking, boiling and fermenting |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.5334/ai-391 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.5334/ai-391 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright: © 2018 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| Keywords: | archaeobotany, paleoethnobotany, bread, oven, Triticum, Sorghum |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10076845 |
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