Subsistence and Foodways (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cinthia Campos.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Trincheras Tradition thrived in the Altar Valley, Sonora, Mexico between AD 400 to 1400. The Hohokam are known for their extensive irrigation systems and reliance on agriculture. Lacking evidence of similar features, the Trincheras were interpreted as primarily hunters and gatherers, a rustic branch of the Hohokam. This characterization of Trincheras...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Friedel. Bernadette Cap. Jason Yaeger.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the tropics, paleoethnobotanists often face challenging preservation environments, making most of the macrobotanical specimens that we analyze those that are preserved through processes of carbonization. This preservation issue is often framed as limiting the questions we can ask and the interpretations we can make about ancient Maya relationships with the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Corey Hoover. Kylie Quave.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Yunkaray, a site located located in Cusco Peru and located on the Maras Plain was occupied from approximately 1050 -1450 principally by the Ayarmaca group. This group lived on the fringe of the Incan political influence and faced differing modes of interaction. This investigation will utilize the analysis of paleoethnobotanical remains recovered from the site...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bryan Núñez Aparcana. Nina Castillo.

The archaeological site of Cerro Azul is located near the sea in the Cañete valley, Central Coast of Perú. This site is related with the Late Intermediate ethnic group called "Huarcos", that lasted through the Inca influence during the Late Horizon. This study presents a preliminary analysis of the botanical remains based on the presence, diversification and amount of certain species such as maize, roots, fruits and legumes in relation with the changes through the occupation of this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katelyn McDonough. Jaime Kennedy.

This is an abstract from the "Far West Paleoindian Archaeology: Papers from the Next Generation" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Questions concerning human paleoecology and subsistence strategies continue to shape Paleoindian research in the Great Basin. Despite significant advances in our understanding of human lifeways during the terminal Pleistocene, the relationship between human populations and plant food communities is still unclear....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lia Vidas. Siniša Radovic. Sara Silvestrini. Ivor Jankovic. Rory Becker.

This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Research into the Late Pleistocene of Europe" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The region of Istria, today the largest Croatian peninsula, was a part of the Great Po region during the Late Pleistocene and therefore a big part of an intricate, now largely changed, ecosystem. The site of Ljubićeva pećina is one of many caves that played an important role for hunter-gatherer communities gravitating to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Farrell Monaco.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study is focused on cereal grain consumption in ancient Rome and the food value of the commercially produced Roman bread product, the Panis Quadratus, in the Roman daily diet in first century AD. While some Roman-era cereal grain consumption estimates have been published in recent decades, no study has yet attempted to consider the assemblage of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman.

This is an abstract from the "The Columbian Exchange Revisited: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on Eurasian Domesticates in the Americas" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The introduction of Eurasian domesticated animals during the European colonial invasion of the Americas led to rapid, large-scale transformations of North American landscapes, irrevocably altering the relationships between Native people and Native landscapes....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Trevor Lamb.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists frequently encounter pits filled with charcoal and fire cracked rock in the archaeological record which testify to past culinary practice. However, it is challenging to determine how these pits were used to cook food from general observation alone. Here I employ paleoethnobotanical and zooarchaeological analyses to determine how pits were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Florin Curta.

This is an abstract from the "New Work in Medieval Archaeology, Part 1: Landscapes, Food, and Health" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite great advances in the archaeology of nomadism, in Eastern Europe, medieval nomads are still associated archaeologically with burials in prehistoric barrows, along with horses or parts of the horse body. Huns, Avars, and Magyars are all labeled "nomads," but the actual conditions for nomadism in the Carpathian...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tiffany Clark. James Potter.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Research by PaleoWest" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations at the ranchería at Mission Santa Clara de Asís (CA-SCL-30H) yielded a large and well-preserved faunal assemblage. Using data from the analysis of these remains, this poster explores the domestic subsistence behaviors of the Native Americans who occupied the adobe structures at the mission. Although the predominance of cattle...

DOCUMENT Citation Only India Ella Dilkes-Hall. Stepanus Gung. Andika Arief Drajat Priyatno. Febryanto . Adhi Agus Oktaviana.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany, Part II" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Liang Jon is a limestone rockshelter situated within the Batu Gergaji range located in Sangkulirang-Mangkalihat karst. In 2019, excavations revealed a rich archaeological sequence with a wide range of macrobotanical remains, including Pangium edule Reinw. (payang) endocarps. Payang is an important botanical resource to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marina Di Giusto. Murilo Bastos. Veronica Wesolowski.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this study, we aim to present new evidence on the diet of pre-colonial individuals excavated in the Piaçaguera sambaqui (7,151-5,668 years cal. BP), one of the oldest shell mound found on the Brazilian coast. Previous isotopic analysis has shown that, although there is a general preference for consuming marine fish, there are regional variations in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Goldstein.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Previous studies have provided a baseline for Indigenous subsistence practices in southern New England both before and after European colonization, but there are few archaeological sites that can speak to subsistence during the early years of colonialism in the seventeenth century. This project uses zooarchaeological analysis and a comparative analytical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tanya Peres.

This is an abstract from the "Thinking about Eating: Theorizing Foodways in Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Gastropolitics are the creation and maintenance of social and political relationships through the making and consuming of meals. Archaeology allows us to recover the residues of meals and associated culinary equipment from secure contexts. Foodways data, when integrated with other data classes such as paleodemography and spatial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joshua Henkin. Ruth Ann Armitage. Donna Nash. P. Ryan Williams.

This is an abstract from the "Exploring Culture Contact and Diversity in Southern Peru" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Converging evidence from archaeological excavations and ethnographic research in the Peruvian Andes has demonstrated that the indigenous alcoholic beverage chicha de molle has a time depth of at least the Middle Horizon (600 CE – 1000 CE). The most impressive example of large-scale, pre-Hispanic production of chicha de molle hails...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Krista Dotzel.

Due to poor preservation, Woodland-era plant resources in New England, both wild and cultivated, have long been poorly understood. Previous macrobotanical analyses have suggested that Woodland subsistence strategies for plant resources in New England are unique to the region, with further intra-regional variation between coastal and interior contexts. This paper presents a preliminary analysis of phytoliths extracted from carbonized food residues found on ceramic sherds from the Early Woodland...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katheryn Twiss. Melina Seabrook. Michael Charles.

Archaeologists have been examining the great cities of ancient southern Mesopotamia for well over a century now, but as yet we have limited understanding of their subsistence economies. For decades researchers more or less ignored the wealth of faunal and botanical remains in and around ancient Mesopotamian architecture. Over the course of the twentieth century researchers began to recover animal bones and teeth, but as few digs dry-screened or floated their soils the resulting assemblages...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kiley Stoj. Karen Schollmeyer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Examining climate patterns, archaeobotanical evidence, artistic depictions on pottery, and historic and modern uses of plants provides information on how Mimbres and Salado period farmers used local plant resources and influenced their distribution and availability. This presentation examines differences in archaeological plant remains found in Classic Mimbres...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Smith. Karen Adams.

The plant record of Room 28 is filtered through a complex stratigraphy composed of early excavation backfill from adjacent rooms, Room 28 features and floor, and below to an older surface. Plant specimens from 11 macrobotanical, 7 flotation, 10 maize cob samples, and 13 pollen samples reveal an exceptionally rich record of the resources valued and used by Pueblo Bonito people. Their reliance on maize registers strongly, supplemented by a mix of native foods including pinyon nuts, cacti, cattail,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Chitwood. Dana Bardolph.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents the analysis of paleoethnobotanical data from excavations at a Classic Taino site (1000 CE–1490 CE) at Cinnamon Bay, a shoreline ritual site located on St. John in the United States Virgin Islands (USVI). Excavations began in 1992 when it was determined that the site was at risk of being lost to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caleb Ranum.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The site of Alto Pukara is located on the Bolivian Altiplano near Lake Titicaca. It dates to the Middle Formative, a period which whitnessed the emergence of settlements, craft specialization, and hierarchical political development in the region. Excavations by Robin Beck in 2000 and 2001 uncovered two structures, which were identified as part of a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jaelyn Stebbins.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recognized archaeologically by their distinct material culture, Oneota sites exist in many ecological zones across the Upper Midwest. Consequently, the sites are hardly homogenous. Across localities, Oneota groups are recognized as late Precontact food producers who grew Zea mays (maize), Cucurbita pepo (squash), and later Phaseolus vulgaris (bean). The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Teresa Hsu. Nawa Sugiyama.

This is an abstract from the "Cultivating Cities: Perspectives from the New and Old Worlds on Wild Foods, Agriculture, and Urban Subsistence Economies" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Animals are invariably integrated into the intricate makings of human culture, providing material evidence to reconstruct ancient urban foodways that influence and structure sociopolitical identities, practices, and ideologies. We explore the concept of production and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Guadalupe Sanchez Miranda. John Carpenter.

Recent interdisciplinary investigations have revealed that the Sonoran Desert region is not only one of the earliest regions occupied by humans on the American Continent but also has one of the longest occupation records. The earliers Sonorans were proboscidean hunters in the Late Pleistocene, Archaic foragers and hunters in the Early and Middle Holocene and maize farmers in the Late Holocene. Several sites in the state of Sonora, Mexico have a well-preserved archaeological record with...