People deliberately choose from available foods to domesticate and to eat. In the first part of the course we were thinking mostly about the enviroment, nutrition, and calories and we have talked about the importance of food for social complexity and for individual identity. Describe and discuss each of the two reading selections (Hastorf and the article you choose from the list) in your own words, do a compare/contrast of the two written works, and then address all of the following questions, explicitly identifying the evidence presented and how that leads to the interpretations that the authors make: 1) How can individual identity and group identity be reconstructed from archaeological remains? 2) What is the difference between daily food and a feast? 3) Are there ways that political leaders affect the production, marketing, or consumption of food, and how do ordinary people respond to those opportunities and restrictions?
