Biocultural and archaeological research on food, past and present, often relies on very specific, precise, methods for data collection and analysis. These are presented here in a broad-based review. Individual chapters provide opportunities to think through the adoption of methods by reviewing the history of their use along with a discussion of research conducted using those methods. A case study from the author's own work is included in each chapter to illustrate why the methods were adopted in that particular case along with abundant additional resources to further develop and explore those methods.

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FOOD RESEARCH
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SECTION I. Introduction and Research Ethics
Introduction to the Three-Volume Set
Introduction to Food Research: Nutritional Anthropology and Archaeological Methods
Research Ethics in Food Studies
SECTION II. Nutritional Anthropology
Chapter 1. Design in Biocultural Studies of Food and Nutritional Anthropology
CHAPTER 2. Nutritional Anthropometry and Body Composition
CHAPTER 3. Measuring Energy Expenditure in Daily Living
CHAPTER 4. Dietary Analyses
CHAPTER 5. Ethnography as a Tool for Formative Research and Evaluation in Public Health Nutrition
CHAPTER 6. Primate Nutrition and Foodways
CHAPTER 7. Food Episodes/Social Events: Measuring the Nutritional and Social Value of Commensality
SECTION III Archaeological Study of Food and Food Habits
CHAPTER 8. Archaeological Food and Nutrition Research
CHAPTER 9. Researching Plant Food Remains from Archaeological Contexts
CHAPTER 10. Methods for Reconstructing Diet
CHAPTER 11. Nutritional Stress in Past Human Groups
CHAPTER 12. Research on Direct Food Remains
CHAPTER 13. If There Is Food, We Will Eat
CHAPTER 14. Experimental Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology, and the Application of Archaeological Data to the Study of Subsistence, Diet, and Nutrition
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