Matthew P. Sayre · Maria C. Bruno Editors Social Perspectives on Ancient Lives from Paleoethnobotanical Data Social Perspectives on Ancient Lives from Paleoethnobotanical Data Matthew P. Sayre • Maria C. Bruno Editors Social Perspectives on Ancient Lives from Paleoethnobotanical Data 123 Editors Matthew P. Sayre Maria C. Bruno Department of Anthropology Department of Anthropology University of South Dakota and Archaeology Vermillion, SD Dickinson College USA Carlisle, PA USA ISBN 978-3-319-52847-2 ISBN 978-3-319-52849-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-52849-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017930792 © Springer International Publishing AG 2017 This work is subject to copyright. 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Sayre 2 Integrating Archaeological Data Toward a Better Understanding of Food Plants Choices and Territory Exploitation in the Northwestern European Early Neolithic: The Case of Remicourt “En Bia Flo II” ....................... 15 Alexandre Chevalier and Dominique Bosquet 3 Cultigen Chenopods in the Americas: A Hemispherical Perspective ............................................... 55 Gayle J. Fritz, Maria C. Bruno, BrieAnna S. Langlie, Bruce D. Smith and Logan Kistler 4 Rethinking the Role of Wild Resources in Agriculturalist Societies: Archives from Rockshelter Cases of Northwestern Argentina ................................................ 77 M. Alejandra Korstanje 5 Exploring Culinary Practices Through GIS Modeling at Joya de Cerén, El Salvador ............................... 101 Alan Farahani, Katherine L. Chiou, Rob Q. Cuthrell, Anna Harkey, Shanti Morell-Hart, Christine A. Hastorf and Payson D. Sheets 6 Ritual and Plant Use at Conchopata: An Andean Middle Horizon Site ....................................... 121 Matthew P. Sayre and William T. Whitehead 7 Ritual Time: The Struggle to Pinpoint the Temporality of Ritual Practice Using Archaeobotanical Data ................. 145 Christopher T. Morehart vii viii Contents 8 A Compelling Intersectionality: Paleoethnobotany, Social Theory, and Feminist Commitments ..................... 159 Margaret W. Conkey 9 Commentary: Paleoethnobotany Beyond Diet, Environment, and Ecology .............................................. 171 Deborah M. Pearsall Index ...................................................... 179 Editors and Contributors About the Editors Dr. Matthew P. Sayre is currently Assistant Professor at the University of South Dakota. He teaches courses in Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, and Historical Ecology. He is also active in the development and teaching of the new Sustainability Major. His research focuses on the past ecology, ritual, and production practices of people in the Andean region of South America. He has worked at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Chavin de Huantar, Peru over the last decade and leads a field project focused on the domestic settlements in the La Banda sector of the site. Dr. Maria C. Bruno is currently Assistant Professor at Dickinson College where she teaches courses in Archaeology and World Prehistory, Environmental Archaeology, and Archaeological Method and Theory. She is also actively engaged in Dickinson College’s interdisciplinary Center for Sustainability Education. Her research focuses on the environmental, technological, social, and political dynamics of ancient agricultural systems in South America, particularly in the Lake Titicaca Basin of the Andes and in the Llanos de Moxos region of the Amazon Basin. Contributors Dominique Bosquet SPW-DGO4-Service de l’Archéologie en province de Brabant Wallon, Wavre, Belgium Maria C. Bruno Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, Dickinson College, Carlisle, USA Alexandre Chevalier Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium Katherine L. Chiou Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, USA Margaret W. Conkey Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, USA ix x Editors and Contributors Rob Q. Cuthrell Archaeological Research Facility, University of California, Berkeley, USA Alan Farahani Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Gayle J. Fritz Department of Anthropology, Washington University, St. Louis, USA Anna Harkey Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Wofford College, Spartanburg, USA Christine A. Hastorf Department of Anthropology and Archaeological Research Facility, University of California, Berkeley, USA Logan Kistler Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA M.A. Korstanje Instituto de Arqueología y Museo (FCN e IML, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán), Instituto Superior de Estudios Sociales (CONICET/UNT), San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina BrieAnna S. Langlie Department of Anthropology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, USA Christopher T. Morehart Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA Shanti Morell-Hart Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada Deborah M. Pearsall Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA Matthew P. Sayre Department of Anthropology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, USA Payson D. Sheets Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA Bruce D. Smith Program in Human Ecology and Archaeobiology and Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA William T. Whitehead SWCA Environmental Consultants, Albuquerque, NM, USA Chapter 1 Social Paleoethnobotany: New Contributions to Archaeological Theory and Practice Maria C. Bruno and Matthew P. Sayre Introduction Paleoethnobotany or archaeobotany,1 simply defined as the study of plant remains from archaeological sites, has become a central component of archaeological practice across the globe. Not only are its methods for the recovery and analysis of a wide range of plant remains regular elements of the most rigorous academic and contract archaeological projects today, but research agendas are increasingly informed by questions that can be answered with archaeological plant remains (Marston et al. 2015:9–10). Although still sometimes viewed as merely a methodological specialization, paleoethnobotanists have a long history of using the data they produce to address larger questions about the human past and contribute to broader theoretical discussions in the field of archaeology (see Hastorf 1999; Marston et al. 2015; Pearsall 2015; VanDerwarker et al. 2016 for reviews of the discipline). Paleoethnobotany has contributed rather substantially to theories of the nature of human–environmental interactions and subsistence change, particularly the origins of agriculture. It has also, but in a more limited way, contributed to theories about social and political processes, especially with regard to food pro- duction and consumption among complex societies. This volume adds to the growing arena of social paleoethnobotany (Morehart and Morell–Hart 2013) with a series of papers exploring dynamic aspects of past social life, particularly the 1The term paleoethnobotany is more common in North America whereas archaeobotany is the dominant term in Europe. In this volume we will refer to the field as paleoethnobotany. M.C. Bruno (&) Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, Dickinson College, Carlisle, USA e-mail: [email protected] M.P. Sayre Department of Anthropology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, USA e-mail: [email protected] © Springer International Publishing AG 2017 1 M.P. Sayre and M.C. Bruno (eds.), Social Perspectives on Ancient Lives from Paleoethnobotanical Data, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-52849-6_1 2 M.C. Bruno and M.P. Sayre day-to-day practices and politics of procuring, preparing, and consuming plants across range of places, times, and contexts.