THE RESEARCH

How did food become connected to power and inequality?

FOODPOWER is a research project investigating the relationships between food, society, inequality, and power in the ancient Andes, with a particular focus on the Titicaca Basin in South America. Its research follows changing foodways from later hunter-gatherer communities through the emergence of agriculture and increasingly complex societies, examining how foods, diets, and access to resources became connected to social differentiation and political power.