The ‘Hidden Foods’ project: new research into the role of plant foods in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic societies of South-east Europe and Italy

Cristiani, E.; Radini, A.; Borić, D.; Mutri, G.; Filipović, D.; Allué, E.; Bonsall, C.; Boroneanţ, A.; Dalmeri, G.; Fontana, F.; Lo Vetro, D.; Martini, F.; Negrino, F.; Peresani, M.; Riel-Salvatore, J.; Sarti, L.; Vujević, D. Vukojicić S.

The ‘Hidden Foods’ project is a new research programme aimed at reconstructing the importance of plant foods in prehistoric forager subsistence in Southern Europe, with a particular focus on Italy and the Balkans. The role of plant foods in pre-agrarian societies remains one of the major issues of world prehistory. The project will investigate different categories of archaeological evidence (ground stone tools, archaeological sediments and human skeletal remains) in order to assess the role of plant foods in prehistoric hunter-gatherers’ diet and health, as well as to explore the causal links between the processing of plant foods and technological changes in artefact production.

The ‘Hidden Foods’ project: new research into the role of plant foods in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic societies of South-east Europe and Italy / Cristiani E., Radini A., Borić D., Mutri G., Filipović D., Allué E., Bonsall C., Boroneanţ A., Dalmeri G., Fontana F., Lo Vetro D., Martini F., Negrino F., Peresani M., Riel-Salvatore J., Sarti L., Vujević D. Vukojicić S.. - In: ANTIQUITY. - ISSN 0003-598X. - ELETTRONICO. - 90:(2016), pp. 0-0.