Oneota Risk Management Strategies and Agricultural Practices

Summary

By its nature, agriculture is a risky endeavor. Unsatisfactory conditions for innumerable environmental or social factors can shift harvests from a bumper crop to famine (e.g., drought, poorly timed frost, enemy raids). All agricultural societies develop practices to mitigate this risk; however, the methods employed are dependent on the environmental contexts, social settings, and historical trajectories of a given group. This study examines paleoethnobotanical and landscape data to determine the types of risk management strategies used by Oneota groups in the Koshkonong Locality of southeastern Wisconsin. It also investigates how these buffering strategies were integrated with other cultural practices of the Late Prehistoric in the Great Lakes region.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)

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Abstract Id(s): 16949