Pithoi and food storage in Neopalatial Crete: A domestic perspective

Christakis, Kostas S.

doi:10.1080/00438243.1999.9980429

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“…First, large-scale centralized or communal storage represents a pooled economic resource and is thus relatively difficult to use to investigate economic distinctions; differential access to such stores is relevant but discussed chiefly in the context of politics rather than economics per se. Second, the economics of household storage-production for, scale of, expenditures from-have thus far been discussed disproportionately in small-scale agrarian settings (e.g., Bogaard et al 2009;Forbes 2002;Halstead 1989; although see Christakis 1999;Strasser 1997). In these areas and time periods, economic differentiation is commonly assumed to be limited.…”

Section: Economic Differentiationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Archaeology of Food and Social Diversity

Twiss

2012

J Archaeol Res

169

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This article reviews current archaeological research on the interactions between food and intrasocietal diversity. Today's archaeology of food and diversity is theoretically diverse but generally views food as biologically necessary and cognitively prominent material culture that plays an active role in constructing and negotiating social distinctions. Areal foci in the literature include Europe, Southwest Asia, Mesoamerica, the U.S. Southwest, and the Andes; thematic emphases include economic, status, ethnic, gender, and religious distinctions. Methodological issues that must be considered when assessing the social implications of food remains include not only the contexts and characters of specific samples but also the integration of multiple data sets that may all differ with respect to their taphonomic histories and the aspects of food behavior they reflect.

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Section: Economic Differentiationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Archaeology of Food and Social Diversity

Twiss

2012

J Archaeol Res

169

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“…Here we discuss the storage potential represented by these complexes using "storage potential" (Christakis 1999) to estimate the space available for storage, regardless of whether the space was always used that way or was the final use. There is evidence for use of "pit features:' including extensive complexes and sometimes very large pits, by hunter-gatherers and low-level food producers since the Upper Palaeolithic (Soffer 1989).…”

Section: Storage Potentialmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Nevertheless, storage can be crucial to complex hunter-gatherer economies (Binford 2001;Kelly 1995) and likely played a variety of important roles in the evolution of political systems regardless of subsistence economy (DeBoer 1988;Strasser 1997;Wesson 1999). Storage and storage facilities can be central to the organization of household economies, the long-term via-bility of households, and the integration of households into larger scale socio-economic structures (Gallant 1991; Christakis 1999).…”

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Large Domestic Pits on the Northwest Coast of North America

Ames¹,

Smith²,

Bourdeau³

2008

Journal of Field Archaeology

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Excavations ofprehistoric and Contact-period houses on the southern Northwest Coast of North America have exposed very lar;geinterior pit complexes. The complexes are either long trenches or rmvs ofpits beneath the housefloors. They are associated with substantial permanently occupied houses dated to between 300 CAL E.G. and A.D. 1830. The pits add significantly to the storage potentials of these houses and suggest surplus production.

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“…A functional analysis of vessels from Belo Brdo in Vin≠a points to a wide variety of options for the storage both of dry and liquid contents in vessels of varying sizes (Vukovi≤ 2008), indicating that the correct interpretation of ceramic containers is the key to understanding the daily routine of Vin≠a households. Dilemmas about the goods stored are also multiplied by numerous testimonies through prehistory and history regarding the wide variety of goods stored in them (Christakis 1999). If we wish to observe these plant remains from Central Balkans, the evidence is unfortunately rather scant.…”

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Containers and grains: food storage and symbolism in the Central Balkans (Vinča period)

Tripković

2011

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Since Flannery, who showed that types and locations of storage facilities provide a variety of associations for explaining social change, the economic and social role of storage has been reviewed numerous times. So far, no research pertaining to storage practice has been conducted in the Central Balkans. However, storage strategies play an important role in the agricultural history of the region. Similar, or exactly the same storage techniques have been practiced from the Early Neolithic until modern times, and even today some are practiced by traditional farming communities. Hence this article, which is intended to lay the foundations for understanding the relation between economic and social processes as reflected by storage behaviour in the Late Neolithic-Early Eneolithic in the Central Balkans region.

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Pithoi and food storage in Neopalatial Crete: A domestic perspective

Cited by 61 publications

References 21 publications

The Archaeology of Food and Social Diversity

The Archaeology of Food and Social Diversity

Large Domestic Pits on the Northwest Coast of North America

Containers and grains: food storage and symbolism in the Central Balkans (Vinča period)

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