The Archaeology of Food and Warfare: Food Insecurity in Prehistory

317 Pages·2016·7.77 MB·English

by  Amber M. VanDerwarker

Amber M. VanDerwarker
Gregory D. Wilson E ditors
The Archaeology
of Food and
Warfare
Food Insecurity in Prehistory
The Archaeology of Food and Warfare
Amber M. VanDerwarker
Gregory D. Wilson
Editors
The Archaeology
of Food and Warfare
Food Insecurity in Prehistory
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Editors
Amber M. VanDerwarker Gregory D. Wilson
University of California University of California
Santa Barbara, CA Santa Barbara, CA
USA USA
ISBN 978-3-319-18505-7 ISBN 978-3-319-18506-4 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-18506-4
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For Duane Esarey and Lawrence Conrad
without whose advice and support it would
have been impossible for us to pursue our
interests regarding the connection between
warfare and foodways
Acknowledgments
We first conceived of the idea for The Archaeology of Food and Warfare following
the first year of our joint field project (Living with War), funded by the National
Science Foundation. As we began to make sense of our data, we realized there
was no existing framework for evaluating the effects of chronic and violent war-
fare on the lives of families and communities through the lens of food data. Never
ones to work in isolation, we decided that our research would greatly benefit
from a broader perspective that could be drawn by forming a scholarly commu-
nity invested in similar issues. We thus decided to organize a conference on the
topic at our home institution (University of California, Santa Barbara). We could
not have funded or organized the conference without the help of a number of indi-
viduals. Foremost, we acknowledge Dean Melvin Oliver and Dr. Barbara Voorhies
for securing the funds that paid for the conference. Susan Cochran, Robin Roe,
and Pamela Hudson were instrumental in navigating us through the financial logis-
tics. Dr. Danielle Kurin dedicated a great deal of time helping us sort out the con-
ference logistics, and we are grateful for her assistance. In addition, a number of
graduate students helped us with a variety of tasks related to conference organiza-
tion, including Dana Bardolph, Matthew Biwer, B. Geiger, Kristin Hoppa, Allison
Jaqua, Craig Smith, and Heather Thakar. As always, our graduate students rose to
the occasion and helped make the conference run smoothly.
The smooth transition from conference organization to preparation of the
book manuscript was made possible by the timely submission of papers by our
contributors, as well as the very competent editors at Springer, Ms. Teresa
Krauss and Ms. Hana Nagdimov. Teresa and Hana provided support and timely
assistance as needed. Finally, we are grateful for the stimulating conversations
with and insightful feedback from Dr. Richard Chacon. In addition, several anony-
mous reviewers graciously reviewed and commented on all the chapters herein,
providing oversight that has strengthened the final product.
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Contents
1 Toward an Archaeology of Food and Warfare ................... 1
Gregory D. Wilson and Amber M. VanDerwarker
2 War and the Food Quest in Small-Scale Societies:
Settlement-Pattern Formation in Contact-Era New Guinea ........ 13
Paul Roscoe
3 Food, Fighting, and Fortifications in Pre-European New Zealand:
Beyond the Ecological Model of Maori Warfare ................. 41
Mark W. Allen
4 The Role of Food Production in Incipient Warfare in Protohistoric
Timor Leste ............................................... 61
Peter Lape
5 War, Food, and Structural Violence in the Mississippian Central
Illinois Valley .............................................. 75
Amber M. VanDerwarker and Gregory D. Wilson
6 Cycles of Subsistence Stress, Warfare, and Population Movement
in the Northern San Juan .................................... 107
Kristin A. Kuckelman
7 Burning the Corn: Subsistence and Destruction in Ancestral
Pueblo Conflict ............................................ 133
James E. Snead
8 Aztec Logistics and the Unanticipated Consequences of Empire .... 149
Ross Hassig
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9 War and Food Production at the Postclassic Maya City of Mayapán ... 161
Douglas J. Kennett, Marilyn A. Masson, Stanley Serafin,
Brendan J. Culleton and Carlos Peraza Lope
10 Patterns of Violence and Diet Among Children During a Time
of Imperial Decline and Climate Change in the Ancient
Peruvian Andes ............................................ 193
Tiffiny A. Tung, Melanie Miller, Larisa DeSantis, Emily A. Sharp
and Jasmine Kelly
11 Trauma, Nutrition, and Malnutrition in the Andean Highlands
During Peru’s Dark Age (1000–1250 C.E.) ...................... 229
Danielle S. Kurin
12 Managing Mayhem: Conflict, Environment, and Subsistence
in the Andean Late Intermediate Period, Puno, Peru ............. 259
BrieAnna S. Langlie and Elizabeth N. Arkush
13 Food for War, War for Food, and War on Food .................. 291
Lawrence H. Keeley
Index ......................................................... 303
About the Editors
Amber M. VanDerwarker (Ph.D. 2003, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill) is a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has been
involved in field and laboratory work in Mexico, eastern North America, and Peru.
Her research encompasses a variety of methods, regions, and themes that revolve
around the relationship between humans and food in the New World, especially in
the periods bracketing the shift to agriculture.
Gregory D. Wilson (Ph.D. 2005, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) is
an associate professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research
is concerned with issues of social inequality, identity politics, and violence in pre-
Columbian North and South America, which he investigates through a household
and community-centered archaeology, emphasizing methodologically rigorous
analyses of large and diverse datasets.
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Contributors
Mark W. Allen Department of Geography and Anthropology, California State
Polytechnic University, Pomona, Pomona, CA, USA
Elizabeth N. Arkush University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
Brendan J. Culleton The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
Larisa DeSantis Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
Ross Hassig Santa Fe, NM, USA
Lawrence H. Keeley University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA
Jasmine Kelly Martin Luther King Jr. High School, Nashville, TN, USA
Douglas J. Kennett The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
Kristin A. Kuckelman Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, USA
Danielle S. Kurin University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
BrieAnna S. Langlie Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA
Peter Lape Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA,
USA
Carlos Peraza Lope Centro INAH Yucatán, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e
Historia, Merida, Mexico
Marilyn A. Masson University of Albany, Albany, USA
Melanie Miller University of California, Berkeley, USA
Paul Roscoe University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
Stanley Serafin School of Human, Health and Social Science, Central Queensland
University, Rockhampton, Australia
Emily A. Sharp Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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