For those interested in learning more on this topic, here is the bibliography I drew from for the talk.
Evolutionary and Anthropological Perspectives on the Human Diet
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Brumfiel, Elizabeth (1995) Weaving and Cooking: Women’s Production in Aztec Mexico. In Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory, edited by Joan Gero and Margaret Conkey, pp. 2240254. Oxford, Blackwell.
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Coe, Sophie and Michael Coe (1996) The True History of Chocolate. London, Thames and Hudson.
Cordain, Loren (2007) Implications of Plio-Pleistocene Hominin Diets for Modern Humans. In Evolution of the Human Diet: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable, edited by Peter Ungar, pp. 363-383. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Counihan, Carole (1999) The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning, and Power. New York, Routledge.
Crosby, Alfred (1973) The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Publishing Company.
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Stanford, Craig (1999) The Hunting Apes: Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior. Princeton, Princeton University Press.
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Watson, Patty Jo and Mary Kennedy (1991) The Development of Horticulture in the Eastern Woodlands of North America: Women’s Role. In Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory, edited by Joan Gero and Margaret Conkey, pp. 255-275. Oxford, Blackwell.
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Wrangham, Richard (2009) Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. New York, Basic Books.
