Eating from the Earth on the Shores of Lake Titicaca: A Multimethod Approach to Understanding the Diets of Taraco Peninsula Inhabitants

Archaeologists study foodways because eating reveals people’s relationships with their environment, economics, politics, and values (Hastorf 2017b). Exciting recent developments in Andean archaeological scholarship, noted throughout this volume, are helping to unravel the dynamic ways residents adapted their diets to diverse locales across time, and incorporating Indigenous ontologies broadens our interpretations and engages with data in a more culturally meaningful manner. By using the frame of Indigenous American animistic concepts of sentience and interaction in our inquiries into the long-term resilience of Andean residents, we are able to envision and understand past food activities in a more nuanced way. The