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"Good day, good readers!
Most of you who read my articles, or cook with my recipes, know that I enjoy
making edible archaeology. I find it to be an immersive, experiential, and
multi-sensory avenue with which to explore and understand the archaeological
and historical written records. Those of you who read my recent article on
Panis Quadratus, the iconic Pompeiian bread, will recall how much fun it is
to explore food archaeology and history while also debating the theories that
surround the related artefacts. When it comes to ancient civilisations and
material culture, I want to try to interpret archaeological findings in many
ways and nothing opens up that possibility more than studying objects or text,
using my hands, experimenting with recreation, labouring over something for a
while, and even tasting it if I can! With this post, I am pleased to say that I
am continuing further down this exploratory path but this time we’re taking
edible archaeology to a whole new level. In this post we will learn to create
cuneiform tablets and then we’re going to eat them! That’s right. We’re going
to become scribes of an ancient Sumerian (Mesopotamian) language using a modern
version of a stylus and a gingerbread base in lieu of clay."
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Via Susan ****
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
