Household Archaeology in the Andes

Nash, Donna J.

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“…More specific treatments have also been presented for a number of different regions, including the Maya area (Robin 2003), western Mesoamerica (Santley and Hirth 1993), Andean South America (Nash 2009), and the coast of the northwestern United States and western Canada (Ames et al 2008;Sobel et al 2006). Here I critically assess the theory and practice of household archaeology in the southeastern United States.…”

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Household Archaeology in the Southeastern United States: History, Trends, and Challenges

Pluckhahn

2010

J Archaeol Res

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This review highlights archaeological investigations of prehistoric and historic households in southeastern North America. There are a number of inherent challenges to the archaeology of households in the region, including generally poor preservation and a long history of relatively insubstantial domestic architecture. An appraisal of the historical development of household archaeology developed slowly in the Southeast, largely in reaction to trends in other areas of the world. Over the last decade, however, southeastern archaeologists have been at the vanguard of the application of new approaches to households. From an early focus on generalizable patterns of domestic activities and behavior, researchers increasingly view households as historical constructs situated within larger landscapes. Prominent areas of concern include enduring issues such as status variation, production, and consumption but also newer themes such as gender, identity and ethnicity, agency and power, and ritual and symbolism. Some of the most innovative studies explore the intersections of these topics. Conceptual and methodological challenges remain, but the household endures as a practical and productive focus of analysis and interpretation for southeastern archaeologists more than 30 years after household research in the area began.

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Household Archaeology in the Southeastern United States: History, Trends, and Challenges

Pluckhahn

2010

J Archaeol Res

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“…With the advent of micro-scale household archaeology, greater variability in ancient house sites has been detected than expected from the ethnographic and ethnohistoric record and archaeological models (Allison, 2001;Carballo, 2011;Carpenter et al, 2012;De Lucia and Overholtzer, 2014;Guengerich, 2014;Kahn, 2005;Levine, 2011;Nash, 2009;Pluckhahn, 2010;Robin, 2003). This is, in part, linked to social variability, such as gradations in status and rank, including lesser ranked chiefs or lineages, gender, or occupational specialization, that is not noted in historic accounts and ethnographies.…”

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Identifying residences of ritual practitioners in the archaeological record as a proxy for social complexity

Kahn

2015

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

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a b s t r a c tDedicated ritual specialists often had indispensable roles in ancient religions and significant impacts on political histories. Few studies have developed methodologies for recovering direct evidence for ritual practitioners in the archaeological record. I argue that the study of religious practitioners must take a holistic micro-scale approach, documenting not only the places where ritual paraphernalia (sacra) were stored, but places where priests and their assistants lived and practiced intimate and communal rituals. I begin with a discussion of ethnohistoric and ethnographic data to model what priests did in ancient societies, and what the material correlates of their dwellings and activities might look like. I then present archaeological data from two late prehistoric house sites identified as priest dwellings from East Polynesian. Utilizing multiple lines of evidence, including portable artifacts, botanical specimens, site architecture, and site distribution patterns, I argue that there is close complementarity between the eth nohistoric-ethnographic model and the archaeological remains. That priests' houses houses are often situated within corporate ritual centers speaks to the import of such sites and their associated ceremonial activities in the strategic use ideology to institutionalize social hierarchies and political status, a pattern seen in many other ranked societies in Polynesia and other case studies world-wide.

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“…La discusión entre evidencias arqueológicas y menciones etnohistóricas nos habilitó para describir las estrategias de subsistencia tardías, identificándose una serie de transformaciones asociadas a un contexto regional con mayor integración económi-ca, migraciones al curso inferior del río Loa, aumento del caravaneo e intensificación de la producción excedentaria agrícola y también pesquera (Castro 2001 Los depósitos domésticos pueden considerarse el registro arqueológico de actividades cotidianas reiteradas (Souvatzi 2008;Tringham 2001), tanto de subsistencia como artesanales (Earle 1994), incluyendo la producción, la distribución y el consumo (Nash 2009). Dichas actividades serían obra del grupo co-residente en un área habitacional no limitada al interior de las viviendas (During y Marciniak 2006).…”

Section: Nº 49 / 2014 Estudios Atacameños Arqueología Y Antropología unclassified

“…La tecnología correspondería al resultado dinámico de la interacción entre variables económicas, ideológicas, políticas y ambientales, entre otras (Elías 2008: 45). En específico, la tecnología lítica habría sido creada, reproducida o modificada en función del mencionado contexto, atendiendo a los cambios en las estrategias de subsistencia y sus requerimientos prácticos a lo largo de la secuencia (Earle 1994;Lynne 1997;Allison 1998;Tringham 2001;During y Marciniak 2006;Souvatzi 2008;Nash 2009). En nuestro caso, hemos desarrollado un análisis de los tipos de instrumentos líticos y sus modos de utilización, considerando sus principales asociaciones con otros tipos instrumentales y restos alimenticios.…”

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Los Pescadores Tardíos De Cobija, Depósitos Domésticos Y Estrategias De Subsistencia

García-Albarido¹,

Castro

2014

Estud. atacam.

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ResumenAbordamos el análisis de la economía doméstica de los grupos costeros de Cobija durante los periodos tardíos, discutiendo la consideración de actividades como la caza, pesca y recolección como estrategias de subsistencia estáticas a lo largo de la secuencia. Proponemos la existencia de grupos tardíos de pescadores especializados, dedicados a la generación de excedente pesquero destinado a comunidades locales y del interior de Atacama, gracias a la utilización sistemática de tecnologías como anzuelos metálicos y redes de algodón en una dinámica regional de fuerte integración económica. Desarrollamos una aproximación a sus depósitos domésticos, basándonos en los patrones depositacionales de los restos cotidianos como también en la funcionalidad de los instrumentos asociados, discutiendo los matices tardíos de estas prácticas económicas en relación a lo señalado por documentos escritos durante la colonización española de estos territorios.Palabras claves: costa desértica -periodos tardíos -estrategias de subsistencia -depósitos domésticos -microhuellas de uso. AbstractWe approach the analysis of the domestic economy of the coastal groups of Cobija, considering hunting, fishing and gathering as dynamic subsistence strategies, with a particular configuration during the late precolumbian periods. We propose the existence of specialized fishermen, dedicated to generating a surplus of fish with help from certain technologies such as metal hooks and cotton nets. This surplus was distributed into the highlands and coastal communities in the context of a strong economic integration in Atacama during the late periods. We based our analysis ofthe domestic deposits in the study of the depositional patterns of daily remains and the functional analysis of the associated instruments or tools. Furthermore, we discuss the nuances of their economic practices in relation to the documents written during the colonization of these territories.

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Household Archaeology in the Andes

Cited by 54 publications

References 146 publications

Household Archaeology in the Southeastern United States: History, Trends, and Challenges

Household Archaeology in the Southeastern United States: History, Trends, and Challenges

Identifying residences of ritual practitioners in the archaeological record as a proxy for social complexity

Los Pescadores Tardíos De Cobija, Depósitos Domésticos Y Estrategias De Subsistencia

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