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Book

Ancient pottery, cuisine, and society at the Northern Great Lakes

Call Number

  • H 977 K828 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2021]

Physical Description

222 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm.

Summary

"This book explores changing settlement and subsistence in the Northern Great Lakes from the perspective of food-processing technology and cooking. Susan Kooiman examines precontact Indigenous pottery from the Cloudman site on Drummond Island on the far eastern end of Michigan's Upper Peninsula to investigate both how pottery technology, pottery use, diet, and cooking habits change over time and how these changes relate to hypothesized transitions in subsistence, settlement, and social patterns among Indigenous pottery-making groups in this area"--from publisher's website.

Contents

  • Environmental and cultural history of the Northern Great Lakes
  • Cuisine and pottery technology in the Northern Great Lakes
  • Pottery and cuisine: theoretical and methodological perspectives
  • Pottery taxonomy, chronology, and occupational history of the Cloudman Site
  • Pottery function
  • Diet and cuisine at the Cloudman Site
  • Ethnographic and ethnohistorical accounts of diet and cooking
  • Culinary and technological tradition and change at the Cloudman Site
  • Appendix A: Cloudman pottery data
  • Appendix B: Cloudman pottery vessels sampled for microbotanical, stable isotope, and lipid residue analyses
  • Appendix C: Selected vessels from the Cloudman pottery assemblage.

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