Re-Creating an Aboriginal Earth Oven with Clayey Heating Elements: Experimental Archaeology and Paleodietary Implications

Earth ovens may relate to different ancestral cooking techniques, serving specific needs and functions. In eastern and south-eastern Australia, they were a significant element of a thriving pre-colonial Aboriginal culture. However, today it is extremely rare to find such structures well preserved. B...

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Autores principales:	Maurizio Campanelli, Jane Muir, Alice Mora, Daniel Clarke, Darren Griffin
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Publicado:	EXARC 2018
Materias:	furnace kiln or oven food ethnoarchaeology palaeolithic mesolithic neolithic chalcolithic newer era newest era australia Museums. Collectors and collecting AM1-501 Archaeology CC1-960
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:ca8f79a6388543e6ab1db078c75db77e2021-12-01T14:42:33ZRe-Creating an Aboriginal Earth Oven with Clayey Heating Elements: Experimental Archaeology and Paleodietary Implications2212-8956https://doaj.org/article/ca8f79a6388543e6ab1db078c75db77e2018-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://exarc.net/ark:/88735/10150https://doaj.org/toc/2212-8956Earth ovens may relate to different ancestral cooking techniques, serving specific needs and functions. In eastern and south-eastern Australia, they were a significant element of a thriving pre-colonial Aboriginal culture. However, today it is extremely rare to find such structures well preserved. Based on archaeological and historical records, we re-created an earth oven with clayey heating elements in Jadawadjali Country, central western Victoria, and cooked a culturally significant Aboriginal staple food: the yam daisy or murnong. The aims of the experiment were to explore the cooking process and investigate the nutritional implications of using this earthen structure for cooking these tuberous roots. Nutritional analyses of fresh and cooked samples of Microseris scapigera (used in place of the traditional M. walteri), reveal that the cooking process does not increase the chemical potential energy, but softens and sweetens the solid matter, perhaps providing a desirable and warm baby food. Detailed carbohydrate analysis revealed that the M. scapigera is a good source of prebiotic inulin-type fructans (2.71 g/100 g wet wt).Maurizio CampanelliJane MuirAlice MoraDaniel ClarkeDarren GriffinEXARCarticlefurnacekiln or ovenfoodethnoarchaeologypalaeolithicmesolithicneolithicchalcolithicnewer eranewest eraaustraliaMuseums. Collectors and collectingAM1-501ArchaeologyCC1-960ENEXARC Journal, Iss 2018/2 (2018)
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spellingShingle	furnace kiln or oven food ethnoarchaeology palaeolithic mesolithic neolithic chalcolithic newer era newest era australia Museums. Collectors and collecting AM1-501 Archaeology CC1-960 Maurizio Campanelli Jane Muir Alice Mora Daniel Clarke Darren Griffin Re-Creating an Aboriginal Earth Oven with Clayey Heating Elements: Experimental Archaeology and Paleodietary Implications
description	Earth ovens may relate to different ancestral cooking techniques, serving specific needs and functions. In eastern and south-eastern Australia, they were a significant element of a thriving pre-colonial Aboriginal culture. However, today it is extremely rare to find such structures well preserved. Based on archaeological and historical records, we re-created an earth oven with clayey heating elements in Jadawadjali Country, central western Victoria, and cooked a culturally significant Aboriginal staple food: the yam daisy or murnong. The aims of the experiment were to explore the cooking process and investigate the nutritional implications of using this earthen structure for cooking these tuberous roots. Nutritional analyses of fresh and cooked samples of Microseris scapigera (used in place of the traditional M. walteri), reveal that the cooking process does not increase the chemical potential energy, but softens and sweetens the solid matter, perhaps providing a desirable and warm baby food. Detailed carbohydrate analysis revealed that the M. scapigera is a good source of prebiotic inulin-type fructans (2.71 g/100 g wet wt).
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author	Maurizio Campanelli Jane Muir Alice Mora Daniel Clarke Darren Griffin
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title	Re-Creating an Aboriginal Earth Oven with Clayey Heating Elements: Experimental Archaeology and Paleodietary Implications
title_short	Re-Creating an Aboriginal Earth Oven with Clayey Heating Elements: Experimental Archaeology and Paleodietary Implications
title_full	Re-Creating an Aboriginal Earth Oven with Clayey Heating Elements: Experimental Archaeology and Paleodietary Implications
title_fullStr	Re-Creating an Aboriginal Earth Oven with Clayey Heating Elements: Experimental Archaeology and Paleodietary Implications
title_full_unstemmed	Re-Creating an Aboriginal Earth Oven with Clayey Heating Elements: Experimental Archaeology and Paleodietary Implications
title_sort	re-creating an aboriginal earth oven with clayey heating elements: experimental archaeology and paleodietary implications
publisher	EXARC
publishDate	2018
url	https://doaj.org/article/ca8f79a6388543e6ab1db078c75db77e
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Re-Creating an Aboriginal Earth Oven with Clayey Heating Elements: Experimental Archaeology and Paleodietary Implications

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