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| Event: | SSS-12 The Rise of Bread: Hunting and Gathering to Empire | Dates: | 3/22 | Time: | 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM | Category: | Spring2024-SingleSession | Location: | Seabury Heritage Hall | Presenter: | Alexia Smith, PhD., Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Connecticut | Archaeology of bread, linking its earliest creation, 14,400 years ago to the Mesopotamia settlements. This lecture provides an overview of the major social developments that occurred across SW Asia as people transitioned from hunting and gathering to agriculture, early social complexity, urbanism, and eventually empire. As these revolutionary social changes took place, methods of food acquisition also changed. I describe these changes and center discussions of bread and fuel that were central to the changes witnessed. While bread and fuel appear mundane on the surface, they have much to tell us about the ways people live!
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