How do we know what people ate in the past? How did they make their food? How did food fit into the social aspect of life in the past? We discuss old old recipes, spicy Sichuanese history, an herbal mystery, how food changed our faces, and more! Interested in learning about how to use X-Rays and similar technology in archaeology? Check out the linked PaleoImaging course from James Elliot! [https://www.paleoimaging.com/about-the-paleoradiography-course] Start your own podcast with Zencastr and get 30% off your first three months with code DIRT. Click this message for more information. [https://zencastr.com/pricing?coupon=DIRT&fpr=qu6pw] Links * Stone Age spices (NPR) [https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/08/22/213850464/stone-age-chefs-spiced-up-food-even-6-000-years-ago] * Garlic Mustard Phytoliths (PLOS One) [https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0070583] * Oldest Noodles Found in China (BBC) [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4335160.stm] * Decoding Ancient Recipes (BBC) [https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20191103-the-worlds-oldest-known-recipes-decoded] * Roman food blogger Apicius (Wikipedia) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apicius] * History of Spice in Sichuan (University of Illinois) [https://worldhistoryconnected.press.uillinois.edu/12.3/wang.html#:~:text=Chinese%20historians%20generally%20believe%20that,and%20early%2018th%20centuries] * Why Revolutionaries Love Spicy Food (Nautilus) [https://nautil.us/why-revolutionaries-love-spicy-food-4518/] * Cooking Before Ceramics (The Atlantic) [https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/01/how-did-humans-cook-before-the-invention-of-pots/605008/] * Monte Testaccio (Archaeology Magazine) [https://www.archaeology.org/exclusives/articles/2892-rome-monte-testaccio-amphoras] * Oyster Middens (Atlas Obscura) [https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-voluminous-shell-heaps-hidden-in-plain-sight-all-over-nyc] * Oyster Midden Exhibit (University of Maine) [https://umaine.edu/news/blog/2020/01/09/exhibit-highlights-threatened-shell-middens-containing-wabanaki-environmental-history/] * Silphium, an Herbal Mystery (BBC) [https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170907-the-mystery-of-the-lost-roman-herb] * What is Silphium? [https://allthatsinteresting.com/silphium] * Early Dilmun Diet (Journal of Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy) [http://www.ancientgrains.org/nesbitt1993saar.pdf] * Facial Changes due to Diet (PLOS One) [https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0117301] * Changes in Skull Features (PNAS) [https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/114/34/9050.full.pdf] * How Forks Gave us Overbites (The Atlantic) [https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/01/how-forks-gave-us-overbites-and-pots-saved-the-toothless/267252/] * Lynne Olver's Food Timeline (Eater.com) [https://www.eater.com/2020/7/8/21271246/food-timeline-lynne-olver] * Virginia Tech Saves the Food Timeline (Eater.com) [https://www.eater.com/22224776/food-timeline-lynne-olver-virginia-tech-university] Contact * Email the Dirt Podcast: thedirtpodcast@gmail.com ArchPodNet * APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com [https://www.archpodnet.com/] * APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet * APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet * APN on Instagram: https://www.inst [https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet]