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The Afterlife of Feasts: Feasting and Ritualized Deposition in the Middle Woodland Tidewater (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Taylor Callaway.

This is an abstract from the "Taphonomy in Focus: Current Approaches to Site Formation and Social Stratigraphy" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, I consider the Middle Woodland period (500 BC-AD 900), a time in which forager-fishers moved across the central Atlantic seaboard in seasonal rounds, regularly returning to particular locales for large-scale feasting events. By analyzing the ceramic characteristics and feature distributions...