Late Woodland feasting and social networks in the lower Missouri River region
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11380251 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Logan (0000-0002-7863-8464, Kansas State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 184-229 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | North American Archaeologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0197-6931 • E-ISSN: 1541-3543 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/01976931221104846 |
| OpenAlex | W4281678656 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 26 |
Feasting and its function among small scale societies have received little attention among many descriptive and theoretical studies of this activity. Evidence of feasting focused on large roasting pits by Late Woodland (AD 500–1000) hunter-gatherer-gardeners in the lower Missouri River region on the eastern edge of the Great Plains is presented. Two features at the Quixote site and lipid analyses of stones from them attest single events focused on roasting deer and fish, and perhaps ritual use of red cedar and ceramic pipes. Such features at other Late Woodland sites in the LMRR, specifically the Valley Falls locality of the Delaware River valley in northeastern Kansas, are reinterpreted. Burned stone features at Middle Woodland sites differ and suggest pit roasting was a practice of dispersed Late Woodland groups. Feasting for solidarity forged a social network based on reciprocity, not competition, to mitigate food insecurity among diffuse, low level food producers
Archaeology · Geography · Pottery · River valley · Woodland · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Ecology
Methodological and Definitional Issues in the Archaeology of Food
The Roasted and the Boiled
The fire stones carry
Low-Level Food Production
Frontier Life
Evidence of Small-Scale Feasting from the Woodland Period Site of Kolomoki, Georgia
People in a Sea of Grass
Late Woodland Societies
Evidence of feasting in the Southern Plains
Hot Rocks as Scarce Resources
House Floors and Native Settlement Populations in the Central Plains
The Richland Crematorium
Plains Anthropologist
The Social Archaeology of Food
The Power of Feasts
Archaeological Approaches to the Organization of Domestic Labor
Hunter-Gatherer Earth Ovens in the Archaeological Record
The Residues of Feasting and Public Ritual at Early Cahokia
Pots, Parties, and Politics
Feasting, Craft Specialization, and the Ritual Mode of Production in Small-Scale Societies
A Century of Feasting Studies
The Proof Is in the Pudding
What Do We Really Know about Food Storage, Surplus, and Feasting in Preagricultural Communities
A Method for Conceptualizing and Classifying Feasting
Big feasts and small scale foragers
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |