Materiality of forager food insecurity in the archaeological record
A case study from the central Canadian Boreal Forest, ∼1100-1300 CE
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 2082589 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Matt Boyd (0000-0002-1387-5047, Lakehead University, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2025 |
| Volumen | 79 |
| Páginas | 101707 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2025-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0278-4165 • E-ISSN: 1090-2686 |
| Editorial | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101707 |
| OpenAlex | W4411137978 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 1 |
| Referencias citadas | 58 |
Examines the connection between food insecurity and forager material culture. • Abrupt warming 800 years ago coincided with stylistic changes in pottery in the central Boreal Forest. • Pottery was used as a container to cook aquatic foods and as a feasting object. • Stylistic changes record the disruption of cooperative aquatic food harvesting. • Highlights the value of archaeology in northern food security studies. Food insecurity is a highly disruptive force at the individual and group levels, particularly when scarce resources are culturally important. Due to the close connection between food and material culture, periods of cultural food insecurity in the past may be associated with changes in the materiality (the physical and relational manifestations of the preparation, presentation, and consumption) of these foods. In the central Canadian Boreal Forest, pottery was traditionally used to cook aquatic foods as evidenced by wild rice (manoomin, Zizania spp.) microbotanical remains in carbonized food residues on cooking pots. This paper explores the connection between periods of aquatic ecosystem instability driven by climate change and the disruption of material and social traditions linked to wild rice consumption and cooperative harvesting. This connection provides an alternative explanation for sudden stylistic transformations that occurred in pottery throughout this region approximately 800 years ago
Aesthetics · Agriculture · Archaeological record · Archaeology · Art · Boreal · Food insecurity · Food security · Geography · Materiality (auditing · Taiga · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Forestry
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