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SUMMARY:Tasting the Past: Sensory Archaeology and Roman Foodways - Erica R
 owan\, Royal Holloway University of London
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CONTACT:Akshyeta Suryanarayan
DESCRIPTION:Interacting with food is a deeply engaging multisensory experi
 ence. It is also a necessary experience\, taking place\, hopefully\, multi
 ple times per day. The basic human need to eat and easy access to ingredie
 nts in the modern world has led to the popular practice of re-constructing
  Roman dishes. Such experiments can lead to a better understanding of ‘w
 hat Roman food tasted like’\, or ‘what it was like to eat in the Roman
  world’\, yet without any theoretical underpinnings\, it remains an acad
 emically limited and highly subjective experience. Applying sensory archae
 ology to such experiments and to our enormous body of archaeological evide
 nce for Roman dietary practices\, enables us to take a more nuanced approa
 ch to Roman foodways and ask more complex questions. This talk will explor
 e the way the theories and methods of sensory archaeology have been applie
 d to Roman foodways and the results of such interdisciplinary research. It
  has thus far opened to door to studying more ephemeral experiences such a
 s homesickness and nostalgia\, and the experiences of minority groups and 
 the marginalized.\n\nThe link to join the lecture online is here: https://
 teams.microsoft.com/meet/3693237776111?p=raZyEwVDtKHkBu2fP9
LOCATION:McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Seminar Room
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