Nourishing Body, Soul, and Earth: Traditional Foods and Foodways
Savor recent developments in the understanding and practice of North America’s Traditional Foods and Foodways at the 2023–2024 season of Archaeology Café. From archaeological evidence of culinary practices to modern-day farming and food sovereignty, there will be something for every palate!
A wide variety of experts from zooarchaeologists to Indigenous dry-farmers will fill your hungry minds with the latest on the past, present, and future of culinary heritage. Come ready to pile your plate high with new knowledge about the social and ecological life of food, from production to preparation to consumption.
Join us at the Archaeology Café “table” the first Tuesday of each month from October through May. All presentations will take place on Zoom, and we have three hybrid events lined up—the December, January, and February meetings—which will be concurrently hosted at the iconic The Loft Cinema in Tucson.
Pull up a chair! We’ll see you there!
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Archaeology Café is made possible by BMO.
Banner image courtesy of Stethoscope, via Flickr
This Season’s Cafés
October 3, 2023
Tame or Wild? Emergent Ranching Cultures of Spanish Colonial Pimería Alta
with Nicole Mathwich
Join us on Zoom only!
MoreNovember 7, 2023
Ancient Domestication of the Four Corners Potato: Archaeology, Sex, and Genetics
with Lisbeth Louderback
Banner image courtesy of Alastair Lee Bitsoi.
Join us on Zoom only!
MoreDecember 5, 2023
More than Subsistence: How Anishinaabe Traditional Foodways Nourish Culture, Kinship, and Community Wellbeing
with Ashleigh Thompson
Join us in person at the Loft Cinema or on Zoom!
MoreJanuary 9, 2024
Indigenous Agriculture: Planting for Survival
with Michael Kotutwa Johnson
Join us in person at the Loft Cinema or on Zoom!
MoreFebruary 6, 2024
Archaeologies of Foodways and Cuisine
with Sarah Oas
Join us in person at the Loft Cinema or on Zoom!
MoreMarch 5, 2024
Tres Hornos: Experimental Archaeology of Earthen Ovens
with Jun Sunseri
Join us on Zoom only!
MoreApril 2, 2024
A Lifelong Zuni Farmer’s Authority and Influence
with Jim Enote
Join us on Zoom only!
Banner image courtesy of the British Museum.
MoreMay 7, 2024
Rematriating The Four Corners Potato
with Cynthia Wilson
Join us on Zoom only!
Banner image courtesy of of Patrick Alexander https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solanum_jamesii_-_Flickr_-_aspidoscelis.jpg.
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