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Feast :Why Humans Share Food

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Feast

Feast :Why Humans Share Food

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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.
Prizes

Winner of Guild of Food Writers FOOD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2008.

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Type Book
ISBN13 9780199533527
ISBN10 0199533520
Number Of Pages 380
Item Weight 583 g
Product Dimensions 155 x 234 x 20 mm
Publisher / Reseller Oxford University Press
Format paperback
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Review from previous edition This is a mould-cracker of a book, as readable as any thriller * Elisabeth Luard, Literary Review *
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) *

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Author's Bio

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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