Status-Related Variation in Foodways in the Moundville Chiefdom
| Autor: | C. Margaret Scarry, Paul D. Welch |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
| Předmět: |
010506 paleontology
Archeology History 060102 archaeology Context (archaeology) digestive oral and skin physiology Museology Foodways Subsistence agriculture 06 humanities and the arts 01 natural sciences Social relation Geography Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Elite Ethnology 0601 history and archaeology Pottery Social organization Chiefdom 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | American Antiquity. 60:397-419 |
| ISSN: | 2325-5064 0002-7316 |
| Popis: | People use food and food-related behavior to express and reinforce a multitude of social relations. We examine subsistence remains and pottery recovered from several different social-status and functional contexts in the Moundville chiefdom. Differential distributions of plant and animal remains suggest that elite members of the society received food as tribute. The analyzed contexts also differ in the ratios of serving ware to cooking ware and in the relative frequencies of the functional types of serving vessels present. Greater emphasis was placed on the presentation of food in elite contexts, and the types of vessels used to serve or display food varied depending on whether the context was public or private. This patterning in food remains and pottery assemblages from different contexts is complex and cannot be explained by a single dimension of variability. Rather, to account for the patterns it is necessary to consider the evidence in terms of the ways people used food in different social settings. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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