Feast Why Humans Share Food

Name: Feast Why Humans Share Food
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ISBN: 9780199533527

ISBN-10: 0199533520

ISBN-13: 9780199533527

Edition: 2008

Authors: Martin Jones

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The family dinner, the client luncheon, the holiday spread--the idea of people coming together for a meal seems the most natural thing in the world. But that is certainly not the case for most other members of the animal kingdom. In Feast, archeologist Martin Jones presents both historic and modern scientific evidence to illuminate how prehistoric humans first came to share food and to trace the ways in which the human meal has shaped our cultural evolution. Jones shows that by studying the activities of our closest animal relative, the chimpanzee, and by unearthing ancient hearths, some more than 30,000 years old, scientists have been able to piece together a picture of how our ancient…

Book details

List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/11/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English




A return to the hearth



Are we so different? How apes eat



In search of big game



Fire, cooking, and growing a brain



Naming and eating



Among strangers



Seasons of the feast



Hierarchy and the food chain



Eating in order to be



Far from the hearth



The stomach and the soul



A global food web