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标题：The archaeology of Neolithic cooking traditions: archaeobotanical approaches to baking, boiling and fermenting
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作者：Dorian Fuller ; Lara Gonzalez Carretero
期刊名称：Archaeology International
电子版ISSN：2048-4194
出版年度：2018
卷号：21
页码：109-121
DOI：10.5334/ai-391
语种：English
出版社：Ubiquity Press
摘要：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.
关键词：archaeobotany; paleoethnobotany; bread; oven; Triticum; Sorghum