Table of Contents

1: A return to the hearth
2: Are we so different? How apes eat
3: In search of big game
4: Fire, cooking, and growing a brain
5: Naming and eating
6: Among strangers
7: Seasons of the feast
8: Hierarchy and the food chain
9: Eating in order to be
10: Far from the hearth
11: The stomach and the soul
12: A global food web

About the Author

Martin Jones is George Pitt-Rivers Professor of Archaeological Science at the University of Cambridge, and specializes in the study of the fragmentary archaeological remains of early food. In the 1990s he was Chairman of the Ancient Biomolecule Initiative that pioneered some of the most important new methods of archaeological science used in such research. His previous books include The Molecule Hunt: archaeology and the search for ancient DNA, published by
Penguin.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition This is a mould-cracker of a book, as readable as any thriller'
Elisabeth Luard, Literary Review
`Will delight most anthropologists and evolutionary biologists, as well as broadly educated laypersons interested in the evolution of diet and the social organisation of eating...[a] captivating narrative.'
Gary Paul Nabhan, Nature
`A lively, wide-ranging study.'
The Scotsman
`Jones offers much that is both fascinating and illuminating.'
Kate Colquhoun, The Telegraph (Review)

`Review from previous edition This is a mould-cracker of a book, as readable as any thriller' Elisabeth Luard, Literary Review `Will delight most anthropologists and evolutionary biologists, as well as broadly educated laypersons interested in the evolution of diet and the social organisation of eating...[a] captivating narrative.' Gary Paul Nabhan, Nature `A lively, wide-ranging study.' The Scotsman `Jones offers much that is both fascinating and illuminating.' Kate Colquhoun, The Telegraph (Review)