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The archaeologies of food and warfare have independently developed
over the past several decades. This volume aims to provide concrete
linkages between these research topics through the examination of
case studies worldwide. Topics considered within the book include:
the impacts of warfare on the daily food quest, warfare and
nutritional health, ritual foodways and violence, the provisioning
of warriors and armies, status-based changes in diet during times
of war, logistical constraints on military campaigns, and violent
competition over subsistence resources. The diversity of
perspectives included in this volume may be a product of new ways
of conceptualizing violence-not simply as an isolated component of
a society, nor as an attribute of a particular societal type-but
instead as a transformative process that is lived and irrevocably
alters social, economic, and political organization and
relationships. This book highlights this transformative process by
presenting a cross-cultural perspective on the connection between
war and food through the inclusion of case studies from several
continents.
The archaeologies of food and warfare have independently developed
over the past several decades. This volume aims to provide concrete
linkages between these research topics through the examination of
case studies worldwide. Topics considered within the book include:
the impacts of warfare on the daily food quest, warfare and
nutritional health, ritual foodways and violence, the provisioning
of warriors and armies, status-based changes in diet during times
of war, logistical constraints on military campaigns, and violent
competition over subsistence resources. The diversity of
perspectives included in this volume may be a product of new ways
of conceptualizing violence-not simply as an isolated component of
a society, nor as an attribute of a particular societal type-but
instead as a transformative process that is lived and irrevocably
alters social, economic, and political organization and
relationships. This book highlights this transformative process by
presenting a cross-cultural perspective on the connection between
war and food through the inclusion of case studies from several
continents.
Using fresh evidence and nontraditional ideas, the contributing
authors of Mississippian Beginnings reconsider the origins of the
Mississippian culture of the North American Midwest and Southeast
(A.D. 1000-1600). Challenging the decades-old opinion that this
culture evolved similarly across isolated Woodland populations,
they discuss signs of migrations, pilgrimages, violent conflicts,
and other far-flung entanglements that now appear to have shaped
the early Mississippian past. Presenting recent fieldwork, archival
studies, and new investigations of legacy collections, the essays
in this volume interpret results through contemporary perspectives
that emphasize agency and historical contingency. They track the
various ways disparate cultures across a sizeable swath of the
continent came to share similar architecture, pottery, subsistence
strategies, sociopolitical organization, iconography, and religion.
Together, they provide the most comprehensive examination of early
Mississippian culture in nearly thirty years.
Using fresh evidence and nontraditional ideas, the contributing
authors of Mississippian Beginnings reconsider the origins of the
Mississippian culture of the North American Midwest and Southeast
(A.D. 1000-1600). Challenging the decades-old opinion that this
culture evolved similarly across isolated Woodland populations,
they discuss signs of migrations, missionization, pilgrimages,
violent conflicts, long-distance exchange, and other far-flung
entanglements that now appear to have shaped the early
Mississippian past. Presenting recent fieldwork from a wide array
of sites including Cahokia and the American Bottom, archival
studies, and new investigations of legacy collections, the
contributors interpret results through contemporary perspectives
that emphasize agency and historical contingency. They track the
various ways disparate cultures across a sizeable swath of the
continent experienced Mississippianization and came to share
similar architecture, pottery, subsistence strategies,
sociopolitical organization, iconography, and religion. Together,
these essays provide the most comprehensive examination of early
Mississippian culture in over thirty years.
Explores the archaeology of Mississippian communities and
households using new data and advances in method and theory First
published in 1995, Mississippian Communities and Households, edited
by J. Daniel Rogers and Bruce D. Smith, was a foundational text
that advanced southeastern archaeology in significant ways and
brought household-level archaeology to the forefront of the field.
The impressive breadth of case studies presented allowed
archaeologists to grapple with the complexities of Mississippian
social organization across the region. Reconsidering Mississippian
Communitiesand Households revisits and builds on what has been
learned in the years since the Rogers and Smith volume. Edited by
Elizabeth Watts Malouchos and Alleen Betzenhauser, this new volume
advances the field further with the diverse perspectives of current
social theory and methods and big data as applied to communities in
Native America from the AD 900s to 1700s and from northeast Florida
to southwest Arkansas. The book is divided into four parts with
overarching themes: articulating communities and households;
coalescing and conflicting communities; community and cosmos; and
movement, memory, and histories. Watts Malouchos and Betzenhauser
bring together scholars researching diverse Mississippian Southeast
and Midwest sites to investigate aspects of community and household
construction, maintenance, and dissolution. By tacking back and
forth between daily domestic practices and wider communal
landscapes, contributors engage with communities and households as
locations of daily social, political, economic, and religious
negotiations. Thirteen original case studies prove that community
can be enacted and expressed in various ways, including in
feasting, pottery styles, war and conflict, and mortuary
treatments.
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