[BOOK][B] Food in Ancient China

Y Jaffe - 2023 - books.google.com
This Element provides an overview of food and foodways in Ancient China, from the earliest
humans (~ 500k BP) up to its historical beginnings: the foundation of the Zhou dynasty (at
the start of the 1st millennium BCE). While textual data provides insights on food and diet
during China's historical periods, archaeological data is the main source for studying the
deep past and reconstructing what people ate, how they ate and with whom they ate it. This
Element introduces the plants and animals that formed the building blocks of ancient diets�…

[CITATION][C] The Gift t of Food in Ancient China

GM Feinman, TD Price�- Craft Production and Social Change in Northern�…, 2002 - Springer