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Eating the Valley: a Paleoethnobotanical Investigation of Local Food Use and Identity in the Cinti Valley, Bolivia in the Late Intermediate Period
(University of Alabama Libraries, 2022) Sponholtz, Julia Grace; Chiou, Katherine L.; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
The Cinti Valley is located in southern Bolivia and has been occupied for at least 9,000 years, with an intensification in settlement starting around 800 years ago. The region was first surveyed in the 1990s, and in 1994, two sites, Palca Chica and El Porvenir, were excavated to investigate the chronology of the Cinti Valley. Rivera Casanovas (2004) proposed that the sites in the Cinti valley formed a three-tier site hierarchy, with a capital, local centers like El Porvenir, and small villages like Palca Chica. To study how these processes impacted food and plant use in the Cinti Valley, I sorted 17 flotation samples collected from Palca Chica and 21 from El Porvenir by Rivera Casanovas and Michel (1995). To analyze these samples, I compared the assemblages of Palca Chica and El Porvenir to study the difference between a small village and a local center, finding more local foods such as Trichocereeae (cacti), Portulaca spp., and Amaranthus spp. at El Porvenir and more Andean staple foods like corn and quinoa at Palca Chica. Additionally, to understand how plant use in the Cinti Valley compares to the rest of the Andes, in the highlands and lowlands, I compared the results to those of other Andean paleoethnobotanical studies. I found that the Cinti Valley sites had a much greater focus on local foods than traditional Andean staples compared to the other sites, suggesting that the residents of Palca Chica and El Porvenir developed their own local diets and identities.
Examining change, persistence, and variation in the role of invertebrate fauna in mission-era Guale foodways on St. Catherines Island, GA
(University of Alabama Libraries, 2019) Colclasure, Cayla Briann; Blair, Elliot H.; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
This thesis is an analysis of invertebrate fauna from Mission-era (ca. AD 1565-1680) shell middens on St. Catherines Island, Georgia, which contributes to archaeological inquiries into population aggregation, community organization, and indigenous foodways at Pueblo Santa Catalina de Guale. Zooarchaeological and stable isotope analyses of bulk samples of shell midden matrix from five Mission-era residential neighborhoods at Pueblo Santa Catalina de Guale are used to explore invertebrate animal use, season of capture, and habitat exploitation. The summed Mission-era results are contrasted with similar data from the pre-Hispanic Irene Period (AD 1300-1580) (Bergh 2012) on St. Catherines to assess change and continuity in shellfishing practices during missionization. Reduced reliance on eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica) relative to other mollusks, increased seasonal restriction in oyster collection, and increased intra-site variability in animal use on St. Catherines Island were indirect consequences of Spanish colonialism. The assemblages from each Mission-era neighborhood are compared to one another and considered in combination with previous vertebrate faunal (Reitz and Duke 2008, Reitz et al. 2010, Reitz 2016) analyses to closely examine intra-site variability. Population aggregation of towns from along the coast at Pueblo Santa Catalina created a pluralistic indigenous community with multiple culinary communities of practice. This is linked to increased variation in vertebrate and invertebrate animal use from the Irene Period at Meeting House Field (Bergh 2012) into the Mission era at Pueblo Santa Catalina de Guale.
Foodways Fabulations: Macrobotanicals from Moundville's Northeastern Riverbank
(University of Alabama Libraries, 2024) Mathu, Patricia; Chiou, Katherine L.
This thesis looks at plant remains from an archaeological site, Moundville (1Tu500), in the Black Warrior River Valley of west central Alabama. This thesis draws upon science-technology-studies (STS) scholarship to explore foodways through feminist, flowing, fragmented, factual, and futuristic lenses. Excavations near Mound Z at the northeastern periphery of the site, away from Moundville's central plaza, provided the macrobotanical remains (plants visible to the naked eye, such as seeds, nuts, and other plant remains) for this project. Radiocarbon dates and excavated structures suggest a late 15th century occupation and use of the site. Maize (Zea mays L.) was by far the most abundant taxa, and taxa diversity across the entire excavation was quite low. This data, paired with the theoretical framework, muddies previous interpretations about late Moundville's site abandonment and asks what plants can, and cannot, tell us about the human past. Specifically, northeastern riverbank samples suggest an occupation at Moundville stretching later into site history than previously assumed, as well as one that was networked throughout the Black Warrior River Valley.
Simple Technologies and Diverse Food Strategies of the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene at Huaca Prieta, Coastal Peru
Chiou, Katherine L.; Dillehay, Tom D.; Goodbred, Steve; Pino, Mario; Vásquez Sánchez, Víctor F.; Tham, Teresa Rosales; Adovasio, James; Collins, Michael B.; Netherly, Patricia J.; Hastorf, Christine A.; Piperno, Dolores; Rey, Isabel; Velchoff, Nancy; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa

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