Ancient pottery, cuisine, and society at the Northern Great Lakes / Susan M. Kooiman.

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"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 i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kooiman, Susan M. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2021]
Series:Midwest archaeological perspectives.
Subjects:
Excavations (Archaeology) > Great Lakes Region (North America)
Pottery, Ancient > Great Lakes Region (North America)
Cooking > Great Lakes Region (North America) > History > To 1500.
Cooking > Equipment and supplies > Great Lakes Region (North America) > History > To 1500.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Antiquities.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Great Lakes Region (North America)
Great Lakes Region (North America) > Antiquities.
Antiquities.
Cooking.
Cooking > Equipment and supplies.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Indians of North America.
Indians of North America > Antiquities.
Pottery, Ancient.
Great Lakes Region.
To 1500
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:222 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
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.