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Steatite Vessel Age and Occurrence in Temperate Eastern North America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

James Truncer
James Truncer*
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Department of Anthropological Sciences, Building 360, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2117 (jtruncer@stanford.edu)
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Abstract

Despite a general interest in studying technological change, archaeologists have only rarely attempted to explain the rise and fall of steatite vessel manufacture. Explaining steatite vessel manufacture requires that all information on age and spatial distribution be extensively sampled and accounted for. Documenting spatial distribution shows that steatite vessels are not restricted to a single environmental or depositional context, nor were they manufactured at all steatite outcrops. A correlation between vessel distribution and mast forest, however, was identified. Analyzing steatite vessel age reveals that the technology was present at low levels for lengthy periods of time, but the absence of a trend in age across space fails to support migration/diffusion models of spread. As a durable and portable boiling technology, steatite vessels would have offset the relatively high processing costs of mast by reducing processing time and replacement costs among mobile populations.

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A pesar del interés generalizado en estudiar el cambio tecnológico, los arqueólogos han intentado de modo muy escueto explicar el surgimiento y abandono de las vasijas de esteatita. La explicación del porqué de este tipo de manufactura require que toda la información cronológica o espacial sea analizada con sumo cuidado. El registro y análisis espacial indica que estas vasijas no estuvieron restringidas a un solo tipo de medio ambiente o afloramientos de esteatita. Una correlación existente entre la distribución de vasijas y árboles productores de nueces ha sido descubierta. El análisis cronológico de las vasijas indica que esta tecnologia estuvo presente en nivelés bajos durante largos periodos de tiempo y que la ausencia de rasgos comunes entre los diversos espacios de distribución no apoya modelos de migración y difusión como explicaciones válidas. Siendo clara representación de una tecnología durable y portátil para el procesamiento de alimentos, las vasijas de esteatita podrían haber compensado el alto costo derivado del procesamiento nueces, reduciéndolo entre las diversas poblaciones móviles que usufructuaron este producto.

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American Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 3 , July 2004 , pp. 487 - 513
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