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Feast why humans share food /

"In Feast, Martin Jones reconstructs the development of the meal, with the help of the latest archaeological techniques: from chimpanzees at a kill to university professors at a formal feast, from a Roman banquet to the TV dinner and the drive-through diner. Spanning half a million years, this...

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Main Author: Jones, Martin, 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2007]
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xiii, 364 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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