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Potluck in the protokiva: ceramics and ceremonialism in Pueblo I villages
architecture of social integration in prehistoric pueblos • (1) • Published In 1989 • Pages: 113-124
By: Blinman, Eric.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Richard Wilshusen (Wilshusen, 1989) has described a range of ritual features that occur in Anasazi pit structures and has argued that different combinations of these features define a hierarchy of ritual activity within villages (such as corporate and community kivas). To Blinman this architectural hierarchy is evident at McPhee Village, a Pueblo I community in the Dolores area of southwestern Colorado. One of the implications of the hierarchy is that the intensity and elaboration of associated rituals should be detectable in material culture through differential participation in exchange or through subtle differences in site function related to hosting gatherings. Nonlocal red ware sherds are relatively more abundant, the ratio of cooking jar sherds to decorated bowl sherds is lower, and cooking jars are generally smaller at the roomblocks highest in the hierarchy. The jar:bowl ratio and the differential distribution of cooking jar sizes suggest that potluck-style gatherings occurred most frequently at the ritually most complex roomblocks of the village. The concentration of exchanged red ware sherds is partly an epiphenomenon of the potluck gatherings, but it is likely that the more intense ritual activity at the highest-ranking roomblocks did confer on their residents some degree of preferential access to exchanged goods (p. 113).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ceramic technology
- Dwellings
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Typologies and classifications
- Refuse disposal and sanitary facilities
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Early Anasazi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2011
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- No Date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1250-1100 BP (AD 750-900)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- McPhee Village, Dolores Area, Southwestern Colorado, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Eric Blinman
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-124)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89081117
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Pueblo architecture
- Pueblos--Social aspects--Southwest, New.
- Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Social life and customs