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Food and complex societies

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In complex societies individuals from distinct social, economic, gender, or age groups often consume different foods because of various economic, political, and ideological factors. The food system not only involves what is consumed but includes the labor and technology that goes into the production and preparation of food as well as how certain foods are distributed and eventually discarded. Food systems within and among complex societies are thus tightly intertwined with social differentiation and the political economy and participate in defining and maintaining differential social relations.

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Gumerman, G. Food and complex societies. J Archaeol Method Theory 4, 105–139 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02428056

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