Oneota Cuisine: Tradition, Identity, and Community
Author(s): Richard Edwards
Year: 2023
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Food is a persistent symbol of identity, signaling both membership and distinction within communities at multiple scales. A combination of macrobotanical, zooarchaeological, isotopic, and ceramic data are used to make inferences about Oneota culinary practices. This paper examines the way that cuisines connected and divided members of Late Precontact Oneota (ca. AD 1050-1450) communities across the western Great Lakes Region in North America. It focuses on the identification of the identification of distinct ingredients that defined local cuisines within the larger maize-based diet.
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Oneota Cuisine: Tradition, Identity, and Community. Richard Edwards. Presented at The 88th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2023 ( tDAR id: 474984)
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Keywords
General
Identity/Ethnicity
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Mississippian
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Oneota
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Paleoethnobotany
Geographic Keywords
North America: Midwest
Spatial Coverage
min long: -103.975; min lat: 36.598 ; max long: -80.42; max lat: 48.922 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 37356.0