Parsing the Pits: Cooking Techniques in the Kachemak Period Kodiak Archipelago
Author(s): Trevor Lamb
Year: 2024
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Archaeologists frequently encounter pits filled with charcoal and fire cracked rock in the archaeological record which testify to past culinary practice. However, it is challenging to determine how these pits were used to cook food from general observation alone. Here I employ paleoethnobotanical and zooarchaeological analyses to determine how pits were used to transform meat and plants into food at the Kachemak Period Nunalleq (KAR 309) site in Alaska’s Kodiak archipelago.
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Parsing the Pits: Cooking Techniques in the Kachemak Period Kodiak Archipelago. Trevor Lamb. Presented at The 89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2024 ( tDAR id: 499927)
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Keywords
General
arctic
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Paleoethnobotany
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Subsistence and Foodways
Geographic Keywords
North America: Arctic and Subarctic
Spatial Coverage
min long: -169.453; min lat: 50.513 ; max long: -49.043; max lat: 72.712 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 39755.0