Presents a multifaceted approach to understanding and clarifying the subsistence patterns, diet, and nutrition of prehistoric peoples. The volume provides instructions for creating a schemata of food collection, production, distribution, and consumption which will yield a more accurate conception of prehistoric lifeways. Topics include: the analysis of floral and faunal remains, fecal analysis, paleopathology, dental analysis, the determination of food availability, paleodemography, and the uses of ethnographic analogy. -- AATA