Island Horticultural Technology Wooden and Woven: An Ethnoarchaeological Case from Taiwan

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Horticultural knowledge played an evolutionary role in the successful colonization and occupation of islands. Compared to more durable fishing and hunting tools, gardening tools are made of perishable wooden and woven materials that rarely preserve in the archaeological record. Because women perform a large proportion of gardening tasks, their technologies are often overrepresented in plant materials and underrepresented in archaeological contexts. Ethnoarchaeology can provide valuable reference information about gardening technological systems. This paper presents an introduction to gardening tools and systems of Taiwan's Amis culture from the 1920s and '30s, curated in the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka. This is the first time these tools have been been presented in the United States.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39231.0