Food Preparation

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Food Preparation Storage

• Presenter Adia Gibbens
• Media Asst Laurel Thornton
• Section 101

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How did the archeologists study the preparation
and storage of food?

• Direct observation of artifacts
• Comparing artifacts with contemporary items

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Observation

• Archeologists found a cast iron stove that had
  coal and mica present, indicating that the stove
  was disposed of intact or nearly intact

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Comparison
Shards of a cup found were very Similar to a
contemporary tea cup. Insinuations can be made
that the shards were part of a tea cup, but
nothing can be definite.
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Usage

• Utensils and other forms of food storage
• Were used widely throughout Kirilovka.
• Pictured right is a baby bottle.
• The baby bottle usage could have been to feed a
  baby either human or an animal.
• It was probably used for babies without a mother
  or a mother that was unable to produce milk on
  her own.

Stacy Kozakavich
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More Usage

• The cutlery pictured left was the only cutlery
  found at the Kirlovka site.
• Not much is known as to why such utensils were
  not found/used within the village.

Stacy Kozakavich
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Even More Usage

• The cast iron pot to the right was found fully
  intact.
• Although labels were erased it bares a striking
  resemblance to a Doukhobor Russian immigrant soup
  pot.
• This suggests that it is a soup pot though one
  can never be sure.

Stacy Kozakavich
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Use-Lives
In general, the Doukhobors reused manufactured
goods for storage of food. Objects like tin cans
(resembling the one on the left) were first
brought to the site with a good stored inside but
after the good was emptied, the could be reused
as a salt shaker.
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Social Importance of Food and preparation

• Doukhobors believed in social equality. Within
  the Kirilovka site, there was one area with a
  large concentration of cooking supplies. This
  could imply that the community ate together,
  making nobody better or worse than the other.

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References

• http//images.google.com/images?hlenlrieUTF-8
  oeUTF-8qteacupbtnGGoogleSearch Provider
  of tea cup picture
• http//images.google.com/images?hlenlrieUTF-8
  oeUTF-8qcastironstovebtnGGoogleSearch Pro
  vider of stove picture
• http//eres.berkeley.edu/tempfiles/tmp6412/fax08_2
  7_2003_04_48_44_pm.pdf
• Provider of baby bottle, cutlery and soup pot
  pictures