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Feast Why Humans Share Food

Jones, Martin Jones, Martin
Innbundet / 2007 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199209019
Publisert
2007
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
712 gr
Høyde
241 mm
Bredde
162 mm
Dybde
26 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
380

Forfatter
Jones, Martin
Jones, Martin

Biografisk notat

Martin Jones is George Pitt-Rivers Professor of Archaeological Science at the University of Cambridge, and specializes in the study of the fragmentary archaeological remains of early food. In the 1990s he was Chairman of the Ancient Biomolecule Initiative that pioneered some of the most important new methods of archaeological science used in such research. His previous books include The Molecule Hunt: archaeology and the search for ancient DNA, published by Penguin.

Feast Why Humans Share Food

Jones, Martin Jones, Martin
Innbundet / 2007 / Engelsk
Jones, Martin Jones, Martin
Innbundet / 2007 / Engelsk
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concrete and compelling

Paul Levy, TLS

Wonderful - don't miss it for the world.

Elisabeth Luard, The Scotsman

This is a mould-cracker of a book, as readable as any thriller.

Elisabeth Luard, Literary Review

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Will delight most anthropologists and evolutionary biologists, as well as broadly educated laypersons interested in the evolution of diet and the social organisation of eating...[a] captivating narrative.

Gary Paul Nabhan, Nature

A lively, wide-ranging study.

The Scotsman

Jones offers much that is both fascinating and illuminating.

Kate Colquhoun, The Telegraph (Review)

Is sharing food such an everyday, unremarkable occurrence? In fact, the human tendency to sit together peacefully over food is actually rather an extraordinary phenomenon, and one which many species find impossible. It is also a pheonomenon with far-reaching consequences for the global environment and human social evolution. So how did this strange and powerful behaviour come about? In Feast, Martin Jones uses the latest archaeological methods to illuminate how humans came to share food in the first place and how the human meal has developed since then. From the earliest evidence of human consumption around half a million years ago to the era of the TV dinner and the drive-through diner, this fascinating account unfolds the history of the human meal and its huge impact both on human society and the ecology of the planet.
Les mer
From the earliest evidence of human consumption around half a million years ago to the era of the TV dinner and the drive-through diner, this fascinating account unfolds the history of the human meal and its huge impact both on human society and the ecology of the planet.
Les mer
1. A return to the hearth ; 2. Are we so different? How apes eat ; 3. In search of big game ; 4. Fire, cooking, and growing a brain ; 5. Naming and eating ; 6. Among strangers ; 7. Seasons of the feast ; 8. Hierarchy and the food chain ; 9. Eating in order to be ; 10. Far from the hearth ; 11. The stomach and the soul ; 12. A global food web
Les mer
The story of how humans came to eat together - and why this is strange behaviour Illuminates both the social and the ecological impact of our tendency to share meals Makes use of the latest archaeological evidence and techniques Looks at how we have shared meals throughout the ages - from pre-history to the drive-through diner
Les mer
Martin Jones is George Pitt-Rivers Professor of Archaeological Science at the University of Cambridge, and specializes in the study of the fragmentary archaeological remains of early food. In the 1990s he was Chairman of the Ancient Biomolecule Initiative that pioneered some of the most important new methods of archaeological science used in such research. His previous books include The Molecule Hunt: archaeology and the search for ancient DNA, published by Penguin.
Les mer
The story of how humans came to eat together - and why this is strange behaviour Illuminates both the social and the ecological impact of our tendency to share meals Makes use of the latest archaeological evidence and techniques Looks at how we have shared meals throughout the ages - from pre-history to the drive-through diner
Les mer

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concrete and compelling

Paul Levy, TLS

Wonderful - don't miss it for the world.

Elisabeth Luard, The Scotsman

This is a mould-cracker of a book, as readable as any thriller.

Elisabeth Luard, Literary Review

Se alle

Will delight most anthropologists and evolutionary biologists, as well as broadly educated laypersons interested in the evolution of diet and the social organisation of eating...[a] captivating narrative.

Gary Paul Nabhan, Nature

A lively, wide-ranging study.

The Scotsman

Jones offers much that is both fascinating and illuminating.

Kate Colquhoun, The Telegraph (Review)

Is sharing food such an everyday, unremarkable occurrence? In fact, the human tendency to sit together peacefully over food is actually rather an extraordinary phenomenon, and one which many species find impossible. It is also a pheonomenon with far-reaching consequences for the global environment and human social evolution. So how did this strange and powerful behaviour come about? In Feast, Martin Jones uses the latest archaeological methods to illuminate how humans came to share food in the first place and how the human meal has developed since then. From the earliest evidence of human consumption around half a million years ago to the era of the TV dinner and the drive-through diner, this fascinating account unfolds the history of the human meal and its huge impact both on human society and the ecology of the planet.
Les mer
From the earliest evidence of human consumption around half a million years ago to the era of the TV dinner and the drive-through diner, this fascinating account unfolds the history of the human meal and its huge impact both on human society and the ecology of the planet.
Les mer
1. A return to the hearth ; 2. Are we so different? How apes eat ; 3. In search of big game ; 4. Fire, cooking, and growing a brain ; 5. Naming and eating ; 6. Among strangers ; 7. Seasons of the feast ; 8. Hierarchy and the food chain ; 9. Eating in order to be ; 10. Far from the hearth ; 11. The stomach and the soul ; 12. A global food web
Les mer
The story of how humans came to eat together - and why this is strange behaviour Illuminates both the social and the ecological impact of our tendency to share meals Makes use of the latest archaeological evidence and techniques Looks at how we have shared meals throughout the ages - from pre-history to the drive-through diner
Les mer
Martin Jones is George Pitt-Rivers Professor of Archaeological Science at the University of Cambridge, and specializes in the study of the fragmentary archaeological remains of early food. In the 1990s he was Chairman of the Ancient Biomolecule Initiative that pioneered some of the most important new methods of archaeological science used in such research. His previous books include The Molecule Hunt: archaeology and the search for ancient DNA, published by Penguin.
Les mer
The story of how humans came to eat together - and why this is strange behaviour Illuminates both the social and the ecological impact of our tendency to share meals Makes use of the latest archaeological evidence and techniques Looks at how we have shared meals throughout the ages - from pre-history to the drive-through diner
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199209019
Publisert
2007
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
712 gr
Høyde
241 mm
Bredde
162 mm
Dybde
26 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
380

Forfatter
Jones, Martin
Jones, Martin

Biografisk notat

Martin Jones is George Pitt-Rivers Professor of Archaeological Science at the University of Cambridge, and specializes in the study of the fragmentary archaeological remains of early food. In the 1990s he was Chairman of the Ancient Biomolecule Initiative that pioneered some of the most important new methods of archaeological science used in such research. His previous books include The Molecule Hunt: archaeology and the search for ancient DNA, published by Penguin.

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