Zooarchaeology and the elusive feast: from performance to aftermath

摘要: Ethnographic descriptions of feasts reveal that consumption meat is usually prominent. Zooarchaeological evidence may thus provide the best way seeing in archaeological record. The accumulation trophy arrays and ongoing high-status activities are confusing behaviours be misconstrued as feasts. A four-fold classification zooarchaeological for put forward: ‘over top’ (high status); ‘ritually charged garbage’ (often religious); ‘small but special’ (nevertheless sometimes visible); ‘was this feasting?’ (sometimes equivocal). This typology allow archaeologists to distinguish between ethnographic categories competitive solidarity