Beyond identifying elites: Feasting as a means to understand early Middle Formative society on the Pacific Coast of Mexico

Rosenswig, Robert M.

doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2006.02.002

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“…Si un basural es el (Dietler y Hayden 2001:3). Grandes cantidades de alimentos, grandes e inusuales cantidades de vasijas para cocinar y servir de tamaño grande, ítems exóticos y parafernalia narcótica, en conjunto, son indicadores de festines (Blitz 1993;DeBoer 2001;Dietler y Herbich 2001;Hayden 2001;Mills 1999;Potter 2000;Rosenswig 2007).…”

Section: Evidencia Arqueológica De Festinesunclassified

Festines Y Poder en Chavín De Huántar Durante El Período Formativo Tardí0 en Los Andes Centrales

Montenegro

2014

Chungará (Arica)

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Los festines han sido comprendidos como el centro de diferentes tipos de interacción entre varios segmentos de una esfera social, auspiciados al nivel supracomunal pueden brindar información sobre las relaciones entre aquellos quienes lo ofrecieron y aquellos quienes eran invitados a los mismos. En este artículo se presenta evidencia de festines supracomunales, la cual fue recuperada de un extenso basural estratificado, excavado en Chavín de Huántar, el cual se ubica cronológicamente en el Formativo Tardío de los Andes Centrales (800-500 a.C.). En primera instancia se analizan las características formales de los depósitos que componen el basural, para luego examinarse la diversidad en la incidencia y variabilidad de formas cerámicas, restos de fauna animal, parafernalia narcótica y objetos calificados como exóticos. Finalmente se discuten las implicancias de festines supracomunales en el contexto ceremonial andino, así como las estrategias en el ejercicio de poder llevadas a cabo durante el Formativo Tardío en los Andes Centrales.Palabras claves: festines, poder, autoridad, Formativo, Chavín de Huántar, Perú. Feasts have been understood as the locus of different types of interactions between various segments of the social sphere. Sponsored feasts at the supra-household level can provide information regarding the relationship between those who hosted the feasts and those who attended them. This paper presents evidence for supra-household feasts

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Section: Evidencia Arqueológica De Festinesunclassified

Festines Y Poder en Chavín De Huántar Durante El Período Formativo Tardí0 en Los Andes Centrales

Montenegro

2014

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“…There were at least 43 house mounds at La Blanca and the site was at the center of a multi-tiered settlement system (Love 2002a;Rosenswig 2005Rosenswig , 2007Rosenswig , 2009). Due to the virtual abandonment of the Mazatán zone to the northwest (Blake and Clark 1999:64) and the Río Jesus zone to the southeast (Pye and Demarest 1991), the surrounding populations was incorporated into the newly emerging La Blanca polity during the Conchas phase (Blake et al 1995;Love 1999b;Rosenswig 2007Rosenswig , 2009). To date, excavations have only been carried out at three Conchas phase sites: La Victoria (Coe 1961), La Blanca (Love 2002a), and Cuauhtémoc (Rosenswig 2005).…”

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“…Cuauhtémoc's elite families occupied Mound 2-a 1-m-high, 100-m-long platform in the center of the site. Mound 2 is interpreted as an elite habitation area because the trash documented on the south side of the mound contained the only fancy Ramirez wares documented at the site (Rosenswig 2006b) and evidence that elite sponsored feasts produced distinct ceramic, groundstone and faunal debris (Rosenswig 2007). People living on Mound 2 were located at the middle of the site and their residences were physically elevated above other residents of the community.…”

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“…9). Based on stratigraphy and artifact composition, we determined that this was one of the features associated with Mound 2, the Conchas-phase elite residential platform at the center of the site (Rosenswig 2007). Figure 10 shows a Cherla-phase pit feature encountered in the west wall of one of the smaller drainage canals (see Fig.…”

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“…The non-elite, Conchas-phase midden and pit deposits are similar to those from earlier periods, and the elite deposits are depositionally similar except for their association with a higher status segment of society. Artifact differences between non-elite and elite open-air middens as well as between nonelite and elite trash-filled pits are expected to reflect behavioral differences between these segments of society (see discussion in Rosenswig 2007). Finally, construction fill is a quite different type of deposit.…”

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Early Mesoamerican Garbage: Ceramic and Daub Discard Patterns from Cuauhtémoc, Soconusco, Mexico

Rosenswig

2009

J Archaeol Method Theory

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Formation processes are all too infrequently addressed by archaeologists excavating in Mesoamerica. This paper examines refuse disposal patterns from the site of Cuauhtémoc on the Pacific coast of Chiapas, Mexico, to provide insight into how the site formed and how artifacts accumulated. This analysis uses materials dating between 1600-800 BCE which encompass the centuries before, during and after the late Early Formative or Early Olmec period (i.e., 1250-900 BCE). First, I employ sherds and daub from shared open-air middens and trash-filled pits to explore trash deposit formation through the 800 years that the site was occupied. Next, I use these same classes of data to make synchronic comparisons between five different depositional contexts dating to the Conchas phase (900-800 BCE). For all phases, these analyses demonstrate that pit features received more debris than openair middens and that material in the latter contexts were more broken up. Further, the low density of daub from late Early Formative period contexts suggests that distinctive architectural customs may have been practised during this time. Conchas phase refuse indicates that waste disposal locations physically separated an elite residential zone from the rest of society and that elite contexts were more intensively used. Accounting for the formation of archaeological deposits allows for more nuanced interpretations of this early Mesoamerican village.

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The Farmed and the Hunted: Integrating Floral and Faunal Data from Tres Zapotes, Veracruz

Peres

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Pool³

2009

Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany

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Beyond identifying elites: Feasting as a means to understand early Middle Formative society on the Pacific Coast of Mexico

Cited by 81 publications

References 51 publications

Festines Y Poder en Chavín De Huántar Durante El Período Formativo Tardí0 en Los Andes Centrales

Festines Y Poder en Chavín De Huántar Durante El Período Formativo Tardí0 en Los Andes Centrales

Early Mesoamerican Garbage: Ceramic and Daub Discard Patterns from Cuauhtémoc, Soconusco, Mexico

The Farmed and the Hunted: Integrating Floral and Faunal Data from Tres Zapotes, Veracruz

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