Are You Trying to Recover the History of Indigenous Peoples?

In Western Europe, we tend to fetishize the written word in ways that other cultures and communities really, really don't. In early America, for example, and South America, it really is the archaeologists who've done the most exciting work in recovering everyday experiences of communities there. There's really exciting work in tracing kind of food cultures that have moved from Africa via the forced enslavement of African men and women.