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dc.contributor.authorBuckberry, Jo*
dc.contributor.authorOgden, Alan R.*
dc.contributor.authorShearman, V.*
dc.contributor.authorMcCleery, I.*
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-01T14:55:57Z
dc.date.available2015-05-01T14:55:57Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationBuckberry J, Ogden AR, Shearman V and McCleery I (2015) You Are What You Ate: Using Bioarchaeology to Promote Healthy Eating. In: Gerdau-Radonić K and McSweeny K (Eds.) Trends in Biological Anthropology 1. Oxford: Oxbow: 99-110.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10454/7173
dc.descriptionYesen_US
dc.description.abstractThe You Are What You Ate project is a collaboration between historians, archaeologists, museum officers, medieval re-enactors and food scientists. We aim to encourage public debate and personal reflection on modern eating habits through exploration of the dietary choices of the medieval and early modern period. This paper will discuss our osteology workshops, aimed at adults or at school children. We use archaeological examples of diet-related conditions, including dental disease, scurvy, rickets and gout, plus those associated with obesity such as osteoarthritis and DISH, to help the public visualise how dietary choices can affect the body. This information is delivered via an introductory talk and carefully monitored bone handling sessions – and, for the children, includes the analysis of a plastic skeleton modified to display pathological conditions. Evaluation data shows that the majority of adults and all children feel they have learnt something new during the sessions, and that this has led them to think about healthy eating. The inclusion of examples of dental pathology has promoted dental hygiene to school children, although it was not one of our primary aims. It is difficult to assess if these short-term experiences translate to long-term knowledge gain or to changes in behaviour.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.isreferencedbyhttp://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/trends-in-biological-anthropology-1.htmlen_US
dc.rights© 2015 Oxbow Books. Full-text reproduced with the publisher's permission.en_US
dc.subjectPublic engagement
dc.subjectArchaeology
dc.subjectOsteoarchaeology
dc.subjectWorkshops
dc.subjectEducation
dc.subjectHistory
dc.subjectMedieval food
dc.subjectDiet
dc.subjectNutrition
dc.subjectPalaeopathology
dc.subjectHealthy eating
dc.titleYou Are What You Ate: Using Bioarchaeology to Promote Healthy Eatingen_US
dc.status.refereedYesen_US
dc.typeBook chapteren_US
dc.type.versionAccepted Manuscripten_US
refterms.dateFOA2018-10-22T14:09:29Z


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