Where's the Party? An Investigation of Communal Feasting among the Fremont

Author(s): Sara Stauffer; Lindsay Johansson

Year: 2016

Summary

The Fremont people were socially complex and lived within various sized communities. As with any community there are mechanisms used to either differentiate among members of the community or to integrate members of the community and beyond. One of these mechanisms is feasting. In this paper we present evidence from several large village sites across the Fremont region that suggests that the practice of feasting was utilized. In many cases, evidence for feasting is associated with structures that may have been ritually important.

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Where's the Party? An Investigation of Communal Feasting among the Fremont. Sara Stauffer, Lindsay Johansson. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 403453)

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Keywords

General
Feasting • Fremont

Geographic Keywords
North America - Great Basin

Spatial Coverage

min long: -122.761; min lat: 29.917 ; max long: -109.27; max lat: 42.553 ;