Mungo Park routinely describes foods and crops – as well as cooking and serving methods – throughout his extensive travels in west Africa. His are amongst the most detailed sources on these topics for the late eighteenth and early nineteenth … Continue reading
Following on the recent swarms of Locusts in Egypt and Israel, here is an update of a blog on the topic (and on hyenas): Previous blogs on work in the Red Sea Hills are found here and here. During the … Continue reading
Reposted for Thanksgiving 2012: In 1988 I became COP (Chief of Party) of the field component of a large natural resource management project in Western Sudan that was funded by USAID (US Agency for International Development). Situated south of el-Obeid, … Continue reading
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Yesterday it came to my attention that Dr. M. Kassas passed away in March, aged 91. One of the most extraordinary scientific luminaries in Egypt, his botanical work over many decades cut a broad and fertile swath in areas of … Continue reading
Prior to the introduction of bananas, plantains, sweet potatoes, cassava and beans, yams provided one of the basic daily foods in tropical areas of sub-Saharan Africa. As Baker explains here, in the 1860s, a variety of the ‘yam tribe’ were … Continue reading
Lotus plants of the species Nymphaea lotus L. were an important ingredient in African traditional cuisine. Found throughout tropical Africa and in the Nile Valley, their collection and processing for the table is reported by various colonial writers. The frustration, though, … Continue reading
[First posted August.. 2009, Revised 08 November 2011] In 1862 Sir Samuel Baker and his Hungarian wife Lady Florence, set off to discover the source of the Nile. Theirs is one of the more bazaar and fascinating pages of colonial … Continue reading
Kinship, social organization, & the study thereof.
Archaeology, Biological Anthropology & Grad School
Anthropology, linguistics, and prehistory
A 12-month journey of adventure at the Manchester Museum
playwork, playgrounds and the anthropotechnical interface, somewhere between posthumanist geography, new materialism and feminist cyborg theory
Sometimes those Sticking their Heads in the Sand are Looking for Something Deep
Open is an adjective and a verb
GLOBAL TRAVELS IN PICTURES AND WORDS
making up the 'world' with what we have on hand
People rock! The geology of humanity
agri informationTo provide all information related to agriculture at one spot.
A Welcoming Slate:A Community
Everything Around You Got A Past.....Are You Listening To Their Story?
Knowledge from the margins for post-2015
a thoughtful look at the journey of food from the fields and oceans to the fork
Lifting the past from the page
Welcome to the official archaeology website of Dave Lightbody
Musings on the use of technology in education and academic life.
For anyone interested in the long 18th century
