Sociopolitical Meaning of Faunal Remains from Baker Village

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Baker Village was a Fremont horticultural community occupied between about A.D. 1030 and 1250. The residents of Baker Village built at least five pithouses and seven aboveground storage structures arranged around a much larger, centrally located building. The spatial patterning of faunal remains indicates that more ungulate and leporid bones were recovered from floors, hearths, and middens in the Central Structure than in the pithouses and surface storage structures. These data may support the interpretation that private ceremonies or feasts were held inside the Central Structure. Together with evidence of community planning, reduced mobility, and relatively low population size, the data also indicate that an influence-based political hierarchy probably existed within Baker Village.La Aldea de Baker era una comunidad hortícola de los Fremont ocupada entre los años 1030 y 1250 d.C. Los residentes de la Aldea de Baker construyeron por lo menos cinco casas semisubterraneas y siete estructuras de almacenaje superficiales que fueron arregladas alrededor de un edificio mucho más grande centralmente situado. El patrón espacial de los restos faunísticos indica que más huesos bisulcos y leporinos fueron recobrados de los suelos, los hogares, y de la basura en la Estructura Central que en las casas subterrdáeas y las estructuras de almacenaje superficiales. Estos datos apoyan la interpretación de que las ceremonias privadas o los festines ocurrieron dentro de la Estructura Central. Estos datos, junto con la evidencia del plan de la comunidad, la mobilidad reducida, y el tamaño de población relativamente bajo indican que una jerarquia político basada en influencia probablemente existió dentro de la Aldea de Baker.

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Hockett, B. S. (1998). Sociopolitical Meaning of Faunal Remains from Baker Village. American Antiquity, 63(2), 289–302. https://doi.org/10.2307/2694699

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