ERC Starting Grant · 2024
Food identities: biomolecular archaeology reveals multiple and dynamic social identities
The major challenge of archaeological identity studies stems from the dynamic, multidimensional, performative and contextual nature of identities, which are hard to grasp through the material remains alone. To tackle the complexities of different identity manifestations, one possible solution is to investigate the social phenomena that bridge both daily and special events, apply to all members of a community, cover different social categories, and are not limited to material culture. One of these is FOOD! Building on the concept of social foodways, FoodID sets out to reveal how ancient dietary practices reflect individual and group identities through combining cutting-edge biomolecular…
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