Historical Foodscapes: Challenges and reflections
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 2019-02-23

Full title: Historical Foodscapes: Combining zooarchaeology, stable isotope analysis, osteology, and nutritional science to explore economy, diet and nutrition from the Middle Ages to the present day. Challenges and reflections 

This session is a result of a three year White Rose Network considering the relationship between food and a number of factors characterising ancient and modern populations such as economy, social status and faith. Three PhD projects revolved around this broad theme and engaged with a variety of disciplines such as zooarchaeology, isotope analysis, osteology and nutritional science to explore socio-economic dynamics and dietary intake from the Middle Ages until the present day. The challenge of this network was to combine, discuss and analyse the results of three highly multi-disciplinary projects that approached similar research questions in a number of different historical and material contexts. The results of this process are presented and discussed in this contribution. 

Alice Toso (University of York), Veronica Aniceti (University of Sheffield) and Holly Hunt-Watts (University of Leeds)