[Sca-cooks] mayan

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> >Do any of y'all have any Mayan recipes? They do not have to be within
> SCA period, but that would be nice.
> 
> There is a article or book I saw recently about South American food which 
> traced its roots to Mayan culture, Maybe on the Prospect books site ? I'm 
> pretty sure it was general consumption rather than an acedemic e journal 
> for example.

Ok, there's a book in our catalog:
Reconstructing ancient Maya diet / edited by Christine D. White.
(Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, 1999.)

Contents:
Plant resources of the ancient Maya: the paleoethnobotanical evidence / 
David L. Lentz -- Classification of useful plants by the Northern Petén 
Maya (Itzaj )/ Scott Atran -- Continuity and variability in the 
postclassic and colonial animal use at Lamanai and Tipu, Belize / Kitty 
F. Emery -- Social and ecological aspects of preclassic Maya meat 
consumption at Colha, Belize / Leslie C. Shaw -- coming up short: 
stature and nutrition among the ancient Maya of the southern lowlands / 
Marie Elaine Danforth -- Land use, diet, and their effects on the 
biology of the prehistoric Maya of northern Ambergris Cay, Belize / 
David M. Glassman and James F. Garber -- Dietary change of the lowland 
Maya site of Kichpanha, Belize / Ann L. Magennis -- Caries and 
antemortem tooth loss at Copán: implications for commoner diet / Stephen 
L. Whittington -- Late classic nutrition and skeletal indicators at 
Copán, Honduras / Rebecca Storey -- Cuisine from Hun-Nal-Ye / David 
Millard Reed -- The elements of Maya diets: alkaline earth baselines and 
paleodietary reconstruction in the Pasión region / Lori E. Wright -- 
Dietary carbonate analysis of bone and enamel for two sites in Belize / 
Shannon Coyston, Christine D. White, and Henry P. Schwarcz.


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