Feasting and Building an Urban Society at Cerro Jazmín, Oaxaca, Mexico

Autor:	Gilberto Pérez Roldán, Laura R. Stiver Walsh, Fabiola Torres Estévez, Antonio Martínez Tuñón, Verónica Pérez Rodríguez
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	010506 paleontology Archeology 060102 archaeology Mesoamerica Urban sociology Food consumption Excavation Social complexity 06 humanities and the arts 01 natural sciences Archaeology Geography 0601 history and archaeology Residence Patio Urbanism 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Zdroj:	Journal of Field Archaeology. 42:115-128
ISSN:	2042-4582 0093-4690
DOI:	10.1080/00934690.2017.1286721
Popis:	Here we present new excavation data from the urban site of Cerro Jazmin, Oaxaca, Mexico. Based on a comparative analysis of ceramic, faunal, botanical, and architectural evidence collected from a prominent city sector and a contemporary residence, we argue that feasting took place in the Sunken Patio Sector in the Late and Terminal Formative periods. Feasting strategies in an earlier occupation of the city sector employed a largely exclusionary strategy, giving way to a more corporate strategy in a later occupation. We take the findings from the Sunken Patio feasting complex as evidence of the formalization of Cerro Jazmin’s urban, regional role as a site of civic-ceremonial activity. Participation in this meaningful act of food consumption may have served to cement communal ties in a nascent urban society.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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