10693
Accession Number
23117
Editor
Lipe, William D.; Hegmon, Michelle
Title Of Article Chaper
Potluck in the Protokiva: Ceramics and Ceremonialism in Pueblo I Villages - 8
Title Of Journal Book
The Architecture of Social Integration in Prehistoric Pueblos
Pages
113-124
Collation
12 p. : ill.
Reference Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references
Publisher
Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
Publisher City
Cortez (Colorado)
ISBN
0-9624640-0-7
Language Of Text
English
Literature Type
Monograph
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
Richard Wilshusen 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). 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 suggests that potluck-style gatherings occured 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.
Keywords
protokiva;ceramics;ceremonialism;Pueblo I;Anasazi;pit structure;McPhee Village;Colorado;Dolores;hierarchy;red ware
pub_id
10693