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- Recreating Ancient Roman Foods with Farrell Monaco (AnthroDish) I’m speaking with Farrell Monaco, who is an archaeologist, baker, and food intaker. Farrell's work centres on foodways, food preparation, and food related ceramics in the Roman Mediterranean.
- The Dirt on Neanderthal Diets with Dr. Anna Goldfield (AnthroDish) I’m speaking this week with Dr. Anna Goldfield about what Neanderthal diets looked like and how that impacted their lives.
- Sophie Reilly on Ancient Bolivian Foodways (AnthroDish) This week I’m speaking with Sophie Reilly, a PhD student focusing on the archaeology of ancient foodways. Sophie looks at plant residues on ancient ceramics to examine how people prepared and consumed meals in the past.
- Dr. Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire on Classic Maya Food and Life (AnthroDish) Today’s guest is Dr. Maxime Lamoureux-St. Hilaire, an archaeology who studies the Classic Maya. In this episode, we discuss his doctoral research on Classic Maya royal courts, what foods were eaten during this time period, and the events that these foods would have been consumed at.
- Did Cooking Make Us Human? (streaming, Academic Video Online) An unexpected theory is emerging that may answer one of the great mysteries of our evolution: what caused the change from ape to man? Has our diet made us who we are?
- Changing the Menu (streaming, Academic Video Online) Examines the development of prehistoric agriculture in the Pacific Rim. Dr. Alan Thorne presents the story of how people changed from hunters and gatherers to farmers and herders in Southeast Asia, China, and the Pacific islands off the coast of Asia. He shows how this process is still taking place in some of these areas.
- Agave is Life (streaming, Academic Video Online) Agave is Life is a documentary film about mankind’s 10,000 year-long symbiotic alliance with the marvelous agave plant, from which tequila, Mexico’s iconic distilled spirit, is derived. Only recently have archaeologists realized how important the agave plant was to pre-Columbian people living in what may seem like marginal environments
