Like Blood from a Stone: Teasing Out Social Difference from Lithic Debris at Kolomoki.
Author(s): Martin Menz
Year: 2016
Summary
Early phases of Kolomoki’s occupation have been characterized as relatively egalitarian, with little evidence for status differentiation. However, patterned variability in lithic raw material use and intensity of production in domestic areas suggests heterogeneity in the community at multiple scales. In light of Kolomoki’s emphasis on communal ceremony, internal divisions between groups of households highlight the tension between public and private expressions of status and social solidarity. New radiocarbon dates from the southern margins of the village have allowed us to assess the contemporaneity of this pattern, and by extension, the chronology of village aggregation.
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Like Blood from a Stone: Teasing Out Social Difference from Lithic Debris at Kolomoki.. Martin Menz. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 405227)
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Keywords
General
Community
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Lithic Analysis
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Woodland period
Geographic Keywords
North America - Southeast
Spatial Coverage
min long: -91.274; min lat: 24.847 ; max long: -72.642; max lat: 36.386 ;