Reading Animal Remains: Identifying community specific foodways through faunal analysis.
Author(s): Scott Oliver
Year: 2018
Summary
This study explores the diet of the enslaved communities at James Madison’s Montpelier by analyzing two faunal assemblages from the property. The three enslaved communities provide a look at the social structures and power dynamics of enslaved communities through diet. The presence of different species, both wild and domestic, shows the access available to different communities. this paper explores those relationships by comparing three enslaved communities through five different assemblages at the Montpelier plantation.
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Reading Animal Remains: Identifying community specific foodways through faunal analysis.. Scott Oliver. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441577)
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Keywords
General
African Diaspora
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Faunal Remains
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Early 19th Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 1084