CLARCH 382 Lecture 1: CLARCH 382 Notes Lectures 1-8
12 Jan 2016
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Subsistence: the bare minimum (food and shelter) to support life or a means of obtaining the necessities of life. Foraging: hunting and gathering wild plants and animals. Diet: the sum of all the food a person consumes - primarily influenced by the ingredients that are available locally or through trade. culturally determined. Animal bones - limits because of decomposition. Structures that are related to the production of food. Methodological section, historical overview, hot topics, practicum. People ate according to specific beliefs such as religion or celebration. Greece and egypt ate mostly sacrificed animals. Celts ate lots of butter, milk, and cheese while greeks and romans preferred olive oil. Egyptians stored grain to be used later in times of famine. Four humors - blood, phlegm, bile, black bile. They wanted to match the right foods to the right people. Mediterranean diet was healthy - cereal, fruit, olive oil, cheese, fish, a little meat. Roman taste was more spicy and robust.
