期刊
JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
卷 39, 期 -, 页码 1-18出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2015.01.003
关键词
Feasting; Zooarchaeology; Mississippian; Funeral feast; Southeastern United States; Florida
资金
- Florida Archaeology Professorship at the Florida Museum of Natural History
Feasts are important social events but their traces in the archaeological record are often ambiguous. The residues of feasts among mobile hunter-gatherers are particularly difficult to discern due to the rarity of association with structural remains and anthropological expectations for large feasts to be limited to complex societies. This article considers the potential of isolated single event pit features in documenting the scale and composition of feasts among small scale foragers. The results of faunal analysis from a large pit feature associated with a burial mound at the late pre-Columbian Parnell site in northern Florida demonstrate the importance of pits in representing discrete depositional events that followed feasts. While the taxa, element distribution, and associated artifacts would be impossible to differentiate from domestic refuse in a midden context, the discrete and isolated context at Parnell, far from residential sites and the influence of Mississippian chiefdoms, gives visibility to a large social event incommensurate with the density of population in the area. The orchestration of such a large feast, likely associated with a funeral event, denotes networks of obligation that extended beyond those typical of small scale foragers, indicating a degree of social complexity belied by other categories of archaeological remains. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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