Fair game: exploring the dynamics, perception and environmental impact of ‘surplus’ wild foods in England 10kya–present

Sykes, Naomi

doi:10.1080/00438243.2016.1269666

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“…Alternatively, within the same department, or in another HEI, archaeologists may be working on 'wide focus', often grant funded, projects that, due to their complexity, require integrated inputs from multiple, distinct disciplines to seek solutions to the issue(s) being explored, one such example being the 'Exploring the Easter E.g.' project (Easter Origins, 2020;Irving-Pease et al, 2018;Sykes, 2017).…”

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A critical appraisal of interdisciplinary research and education in British Higher Education Institutions: A path forward?

Evis

2021

Arts and Humanities in Higher Education

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This article examines the development, impact and integration of interdisciplinary approaches in British Higher Education Institutions. It evaluates how the concept of interdisciplinarity has become popularised over time and embraced by disciplines such as archaeology. It then explores the extent to which interdisciplinary approaches have impacted research agendas, first, by evaluating the interdisciplinary research calls from 2019 for seven UK-based research councils and then, at a discipline level, using archaeology as an exemplar. Overall, interdisciplinary research calls only accounted for, at best, 11.9% of a council’s budget. Interrogation of the funding requirements of four of the largest archaeological-research funders demonstrated that successful archaeology-themed grant applications are reliant on interdisciplinarity. The influence of interdisciplinarity on British University’s research and education agendas was examined through analysing the strategic plans of eight universities, followed by an analysis of the availability and potential benefits of interdisciplinary undergraduate and research programmes. This indicated that interdisciplinary approaches are interwoven into university’s research aspirations but displayed variation in relation to their educational goals, with only 20% of institutions offering specific interdisciplinary degree programmes. Despite this, the skillset and research outputs produced as a result of interdisciplinary collaboration were found to be highly valued, thereby suggesting that interdisciplinarity will increasingly feature in the research and education strategies of British universities.

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A critical appraisal of interdisciplinary research and education in British Higher Education Institutions: A path forward?

Evis

2021

Arts and Humanities in Higher Education

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“…Food and food systems are a particular subset of environmental relationships where archaeologists’ unique window into past successes, failures, and social meaning can have lessons for future sustainability and cultural foodways (Bogaard ; Hastorf and Foxhall ; Mueller et al. ; Sykes ; Vining ). As Fritz and her coauthors () point out in a hemispherical review of cultivated chenopods, sometimes we cannot predict when archaeological knowledge of ancient foods will take on contemporary significance—for example, in the case of the recent meteoric rise in popularity of quinoa to the status of a popular “supergrain.” The year 2017 also saw continued publication on the related issues of food, culture, and social life (Bouchard‐Perron ; Forbes ; Gallimore ; Heiss et al.…”

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Finding Archaeology in 2017: What Is Archaeology and Why Are We Doing It? Why Should We Be Doing It?

Lewis

2018

American Anthropologist

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These annual review essays focus on what we as archaeologists are doing year by year. Many themes continue on from review to review, waxing and waning, not unlike the bell curves of a traditional pottery seriation.Each year, themes are highlighted and presented in varied ways according to the orientation and aims of the reviewer. All do a masterful job of curating the vast range of what archaeologists were, in each annual period, currently producing. My review follows in the footsteps of its predecessors, summarizing an array of new and exciting research, and describing how agendas presented in 2017 cluster around sets of related questions and aims. It will also look at the growing literature that asks, in one way or another, fundamental questions about what archaeology really is and why we pursue it. In this time when the value of academic pursuits and scientific perspectives are being highly scrutinized in politics and popular culture, archaeologists are faced with the uncomfortable question of "What is it, really, that we should be doing?" [archaeology, current issues, public archaeology, digital archaeology] RESUMEN Estos ensayos de revisión anual se enfocan en lo que como arqueólogos estamos haciendo año tras año. Muchos temas continúan de revisión en revisión, creciendo o menguando, no muy diferente de las curvas en forma de campana de la seriación de la cerámica tradicional. Cada año, temas son enfatizados y presentados de varias maneras de acuerdo a la orientación y metas del crítico. Todos hacen un trabajo magistral de organizar un rango vasto de lo que los arqueólogos estaban, en cada período anual, realmente produciendo. Mi revisión sigue los pasos de sus predecesores, resumiendo una colección de nueva y emocionante investigación, y describiendo cómo las agendas presentadas en el 2017 se agrupan alrededor de juegos de cuestiones y metas relacionadas.También examina la creciente literatura que pregunta, de una manera u otra, cuestiones fundamentales acerca de lo que la arqueología realmente es y por qué nos dedicamos a ella. En este tiempo cuando el valor de los empeños académicos y las perspectivas científicas están siendo altamente escrutados en política y cultura popular, los arqueólogos se enfrentan a la pregunta incomoda de "¿Qué es lo que realmente deberíamos estar haciendo?"[arqueología, cuestiones actuales, arqueología pública, arqueología digital] ARCHAEOLOGICAL FRAGMENTATION?While the theme of what such a diverse discipline should be subtly undergirds much of the literature, a number of 2017 articles, each in a very different way, directly address the very nature of what archaeology is and why we practice it. In the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Assaf Nativ (2017, 55) asks us to reconsider our notions of the

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The Archaeology of Food

Twiss

2019

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What do you want to know about the past? Do you wonder about family lives, or about international relations? Are you curious about ancient warfare, or about human sacrifice? Perhaps you're interested in the origins of private property? In prehistoric gender roles? Possibly you're fascinated by how ethnic identities develop, or by how members of a faith vary in religious observance? You will find all of those topics in this book, because you can investigate all of them via food. As omnivores we human beings face a world full of potential edibles. Our intellectual and physical abilities expand our options still further, allowing us to alter nature's menus by growing, cooking, and combining foods. We thus have choices about what to eat, how to get it, how to prepare it, how to consume it, and how to discard it. The world is dauntingly full of options. Our responses are constrained by the ecologies in which we live, the technologies to which we have access, and the communities in which we live, but choices remain (e.g., Brumberg, 1988:164-188; Bynum, 1987). We make those choices not just in accordance with our economies but also with our politics and our faiths, our heritages and our ambitions. In doing so, we reinforce or challenge existing traditionsand we propel our cultures and civilizations onwards through time. Our foodways reflect our lives. Our foodways also leave traces in the archaeological record. Plant and animal remains are still scattered throughout ancient neighborhoods and campgrounds. Human remains lie in graves and in dumps, their physical and chemical characteristics shaped by ancient diets and activity patterns. ("We are what we eat," after all.) Ovens, bars, and storage bins stand inside homes, palaces, and bars. Microscopic fat deposits remain in the walls of prehistoric cooking pots, and starches, proteins, and pollen linger in centuries-old dental plaque that no dentist scraped from someone's teeth.

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Fair game: exploring the dynamics, perception and environmental impact of ‘surplus’ wild foods in England 10kya–present

Cited by 15 publications

References 38 publications

A critical appraisal of interdisciplinary research and education in British Higher Education Institutions: A path forward?

A critical appraisal of interdisciplinary research and education in British Higher Education Institutions: A path forward?

Finding Archaeology in 2017: What Is Archaeology and Why Are We Doing It? Why Should We Be Doing It?

The Archaeology of Food

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