The Connecting Foodways project has recently returned from a successful fieldwork season in Sudan, studying ancient cuisines and cooking technologies. We focussed on cooking pots, archaeobotanical remains and collecting samples for organic residue analysis. This archaeological research was complimented by ethnoarchaeological studies of the material culture, food stuffs, and techniques of contemporary cooking traditions....
Author: Steven Matthews
SPP 2143 at the World Archaeological Congress in Prague
Entangled Africa – Identity and Inner-African Interaction. Session organisers: Steven Matthews , Abigail Moffett and Thomas John Biginagwa CALL FOR PAPERS This session addresses inner-African interaction and its contribution to the development of African societies and the formation of regional identities in the past. The study of cross-cultural interaction across Africa has...