Cultivating Cities: Perspectives from the New and Old Worlds on Wild Foods, Agriculture, and Urban Subsistence Economies
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Cultivating Cities: Perspectives from the New and Old Worlds on Wild Foods, Agriculture, and Urban Subsistence Economies" at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Systems of food production and distribution are closely tied to the economic organization and social structure of societies, particularly urban ones, where many households do not produce their own food. Urbanism emerged within specific historical and ecological settings with unique floral and faunal communities. These contexts inspired diverse practices of plant and animal exploitation, embedded within particular economic systems of production and distribution. Expanding archaeological research around the globe demonstrates that urbanism does not follow a one-size-fits-all trajectory, and yet our understanding of urban processes is still largely derived from studies in the Old World—particularly from cities where domesticated animals supplied crucial secondary products, such as fiber and dairy, and provided valuable labor for the transport of goods and intensification of horticultural practices. The papers in this session represent a diversity of urban systems by specifically examining aspects of foodways from both New World and Old World cities. Bringing together these papers in a comparative setting, this session endeavors to shed light on the common processes of urban provisioning, and to provide new understanding about urbanism as a global phenomenon.
Other Keywords
Zooarchaeology •
Urbanism •
Paleoethnobotany •
Subsistence and Foodways •
Bronze Age •
Highland Mesoamerica: Classic •
Subsistence •
Agriculture •
Trade and exchange •
Historic
Geographic Keywords
State of Eritrea (Country) •
Republic of Yemen (Country) •
Asia (Continent) •
Islamic Republic of Pakistan (Country) •
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Country) •
Republic of Turkey (Country) •
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (Country) •
Republic of Iraq (Country) •
Islamic Republic of Iran (Country) •
State of Israel (Country)
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- Agriculture, Alcohol, and Urban Economies in Late Neolithic North China: A Case Study from the Shimao Site (2021)
- Animals at the Periphery: Investigating Urban Subsistence at Iron Age Sam’al (Zincirli Höyük, Turkey) (2021)
- Casting the Net: Evidence of Fishing and Fish Farming in Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico (2021)
- Cooking, Cuisine, and Class: The Ritualistic Aspect of Eurasian Foodways (2021)
- Early Bronze Age Economies along the Dead Sea, Jordan: Reconstructing Agricultural Practices through Integrated Stable Isotope Analysis and Macrobotanical Study (2021)
- Feeding the Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite Society: Subsistence Strategies of Cities, Towns, and Urban Centers in the Horn of Africa (800 BCE–900 CE) (2021)
- Hunting and Husbandry at the Ancient Mexican City, Teotihuacan (2021)
- Playing with Your Food to Feed the Masses: A Zooarchaeological Perspective at Teotihuacan, Mexico (2021)
- A Specialized City: Fatimid-Era Agriculture at Ashkelon (2021)
- Swahili Urban Foodways and Feasts: From Village to Town (2021)
- Swine, Kine, and Caprine: Divergent Political Economic and Ideological Trajectories of Mesopotamian Livestock (2021)
- Wild Animals in Cities: A View from South Asia’s Early Historic Period Using a Zooarchaeological and Textual Approach (2021)