Privatization, Small-Seed Intensification, and the Origins of Pottery in the Western Great Basin
Dados Bibliográficos
| AUTOR(ES) | |
|---|---|
| ANO | 2004 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | American Antiquity |
| ISSN | 0002-7316 |
| E-ISSN | 2325-5064 |
| EDITORA | Elsevier (Netherlands) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4128442 |
| CITAÇÕES | 16 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
| MD5 |
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Resumo
'Brownware' pottery technologies became widely used in the Great Basin around 600 years ago. A significant increase in the use of small seeds within the subsistence economy took place about the same time. I suggest that these two events are linked, that people consciously chose to focus on seeds because they could be privatized, that is, they could be individually owned and were not subject to unrestricted sharing. Pots were an integral component of this process because they could be individually made and owned and could be used within domiciles, placing food preparation and storage out of view from others in the community. Privatization of a staple food resource may have been a response to increased population size and, hence, the number of freeloaders, new village kinship organizations, and a desire to create surplus on the part of aggrandizers.