Project:Archeology

Log on Open Food Facts food products that are not sold anymore and were on sale there 5 years, 10 years , 20 years ago. Our Archaeology Project aims to reach or go beyond a 100 years !

Possible uses

• Comparison of old products with existing products : ingredients etc. .
• Collections
• In a thousand years : so that our descendants know what we ate

Team

• Stéphane
• Agamitsudo (interested in the project)
• You ?

Where to find the products (or product photos)

• Collectors
• Museums (museums of manufacturers for example)
• Flea markets ( products such as tins of cakes, teas , etc.).
  • Example: http://fr.openfoodfacts.org/produit/3230690108503/galettes-de-pleyben
• People who have not been cleaning in their closet for 30 years
• Wineries
• Wikimedia Commons and other banks of free images
  • Not easy to find pictures with ingredient lists etc…
    • front + back: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boite_farine_Salvy_recto.jpg
• In the wild !
  • In addition it can clean it at the same time :-)
  • sardines in tomato red Pompon 1994
• ...

Involve new participants

• Collectors
• ...

Categories for the Project

• Products sold before 2000
• Products sold in 1970

Some sample products

• Castle Calmeilh 1974

Development of the project

• Run the project with a competition such as "the oldest product", "the oldest product found in a flea market", "the oldest product found in nature," "the oldest product found in a garage", "the oldest product, whose use has been hijacked ( bottle lamp, tin pot pencils, etc. . )
• Focus on a particular category to begin with?

Make a list of changes

A product or brand may have logos that evolved (or their visual identities ) .

FR - Archéologie