Gendered Places and Depositional Histories
Reconstructing a Menstrual Lodge in the Interior Northwest
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2096090 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Carney (0000-0003-1535-7363, Washington State University, corresponding author), J D''Alpoim Guedes (0000-0002-2627-7863, Scripps Institution of Oceanography), Jade D''Alpoim Guedes, Jade D'Alpoim Guedes, Kevin J Lyons (0000-0002-3563-5634), Melissa Goodman Elgar (Contextual Change (United States)) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 400-419 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/aaq.2019.30 |
| OpenAlex | W2948719044 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 69 |
This project considered the deposition history of a burned structure located on the Kalispel Tribe of Indians ancestral lands at the Flying Goose site in northeastern Washington. Excavation of the structure revealed stratified deposits that do not conform to established Columbia Plateau architectural types. The small size, location, and absence of artifacts lead us to hypothesize that this site was once a non-domestic structure. We tested this hypothesis with paleoethnobotanical, bulk geoarchaeological, thin section, and experimental firing data to deduce the structural remains and the post-occupation sequence. The structure burned at a relatively low temperature, was buried soon afterward with imported rubified sediment, and was exposed to seasonal river inundation. Subsequently, a second fire consumed a unique assemblage of plant remains. Drawing on recent approaches to structured deposition and historic processes, we incorporate ethnography to argue that this structure was a menstrual lodge. These structures are common in ethnographic descriptions, although no menstrual lodges have been positively identified in the archaeological record of the North American Pacific Northwest. This interpretation is important to understanding the development and time depth of gendered practices of Interior Northwest groups
Archaeology · Assemblage (archaeology) · Deposition (geology) · Excavation · Geography · Midden · Plateau (mathematics) · Projectile point · Sediment · Sedimentary depositional environment · Sequence (biology) · Structural basin · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Paleontology
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |