Household ceramic diversity in the late prehistory of the Appalachian Summit

Whyte, Thomas R.

doi:10.1080/0734578x.2016.1250199

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“…Feature 112 is a circular pit nearly 2 meters in diameter and 80 centimeters deep (Figure 4). It was unusual both for its extraordinary quantity of hickory nuts and for its unique assemblage of Pisgah pottery, a style of pottery typical of the Pisgah phase located in the Appalachian Summit to the west and northwest of Joara (Dickens, 1976; Keel, 1976; Ward and Davis, 1999; Whyte, 2017). Sherds from at least eight Pisgah‐series cooking jars were recovered from Feature 112, composing 36.8% of the feature's ceramic assemblage; compare this to the overall Berry site ceramic assemblage, which is attributable principally to the Burke series and Burke phase, with less than 1% of pottery attributable to the Pisgah phase (Figure 5; Beck and Moore, 2002; Moore et al., 2016, 359–60).…”

Section: Native Women and Symbolic Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

Fear the Native woman: Femininity, food, and power in the sixteenth‐century North Carolina Piedmont

Briggs,

Rodning,

Beck

et al. 2023

American Anthropologist

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Native women in Indigenous‐Western colonial entanglements are often portrayed as passive agents with little transformative social power in an otherwise dynamic landscape. However, Native women throughout the European colonial world many times controlled the most important resource required by European colonists: the knowledge and materials necessary to transform raw materials into “food.” Their control over this invaluable resource provided Native women with avenues of power both within their own societies and in European colonies. Here, we explore constructions and perceptions of Native women's power during the period of sixteenth‐century Spanish expeditions into the Carolina Piedmont and mountains by reviewing documentary data from entradas led by Hernando de Soto and Juan Pardo, as well as archaeological data from the Indigenous town of Joara and the Spanish colonial outpost of Cuenca and Fort San Juan at the Berry site (31BK22), located near Morganton, North Carolina. Employing an Indigenous feminist framework, we argue that the power vested in Native women through their own societies, as well as by Spaniards through their dependence on them for survival, provided Native women with far greater agency and power in entanglements with Spanish colonists, and interactions with European colonists more broadly, than previously recognized.

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Section: Native Women and Symbolic Powermentioning

confidence: 99%