Postmarital Residence Patterns of Late Archaic Hunter-Gatherers from the Loma Sandia (41LK28) Site, Live Oak County, Texas: An Analysis Using 87Sr/86Sr

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Archaeologists researching hunter-gatherers in the Texas Coastal Plains (TCP) and Central Texas have noted differences between sexes in carbon and nitrogen isotope studies. One explanation offered for these differences is due to mate exchange, specifically patrilocality. Evidence for hunter-gatherer patrilocality in Texas also comes from the ethnographic record but there has been little other archaeological evidence to evaluate this possibility. The study presented here will utilize strontium (Sr) isotope analysis as a more direct archaeological method to evaluate postmarital residence patterns in the Late Archaic TCP. Human male and female 87Sr/86Sr were analyzed and compared to each other, and also to the local faunal bioavailable strontium, in order to understand postmarital residence patterns. This presentation reports the results of strontium isotope ratio (87Sr/86Sr) analysis from 47 samples from Loma Sandia (41LK28), a Late Archaic site in Live Oak County, Texas.

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• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 25523