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Dating and Explaining Soapstone Vessels: A Comment on Truncer

Sassaman, Kenneth E.·2006·American Antiquity
DOI 10.2307/40035325
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A recent paper by Truncer (2004) perpetuates the recalcitrant misconception that soapstone vessel technology uniformly predates the inception of pottery across eastern North America. Whereas soapstone vessels indeed preceded the local adoption of pottery in limited areas, the bulk of stratigraphic and independent radiometric data supports the conclusion that soapstone vessels either accompanied or postdated the inception of pottery in many parts of the Eastern Woodlands. I reiterate here my criticism of benchmark studies that have been uncritically accepted to support the greater antiquity of soapstone. Given the coincidence of pottery and soapstone in many areas of the Eastern Woodlands, any explanation for the use of soapstone vessels must consider the relative costs and benefits of alternative container technology. Moreover, evidence for use of soapstone vessels in mortuary contexts, caches, and in locations far from geological sources of soapstone suggests that their significance resided not simply in the domestic economy of nut processing, as suggested by Truncer, but in the political economy of group formation and alliance. /// Un reciente escrito de Tuncer (2004) se continua perpetuando el recalcitrante error de argumentar que la techonología de vasijas de piedra jabonosa es anterior a la incepción de la ceramica en el este de Norte America. Mientras que las vasijas de piedra jabonosa preciden la adopción local de cerámica en areas limitadas, el grueso de la estratigrafia y de los datos radiométrícos apoyan la conclusión que las vasijas de piedra jabonosas acompañan o son posteriores a la introducción de la cerámica en muchas partes del este de las Woodlands. Yo reitero aquí mi criticismo de estudios que son aceptados sin ninguna crítica que dan soporte a la antígüedad de la piedra jabonosa. Dada las coincidencias de la cerámica y la piedra jabonosa en muchas areas del este de las Woodlands, cualquier explicación sobre el uso de la piedra jabonosa debe cosiderar el relativo costo y beneficio de tecnologías de almacenamiento alternativos. Ademas, la evidencia para el uso de las vasijas de piedra jabonosa en contextos mortuarios, caches y en otras localizaciones lejanas de las fuentes de piedra jabonosa sugiere que su significado no reside en la economía domestica del procesamiento, como sugiere Truncer, pero en la economía política de la formación de grupos y alianzas.

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Authors
Sassaman, K. E.
Affiliations
University of Florida (US)
Corresponding author
Sassaman, Kenneth E.
Venue
American Antiquity
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2006-01
Volume
71
Issue
1
Pages
141-156
ISSN
  • 0002-7316 (ISSN-L)
  • 2325-5064
DOI
10.2307/40035325
OpenAlex
W2029589707
Cited by
22
References
23
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FWCI
4.43
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 4037 d)
Locations
American Antiquity (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Archeology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Archaeological and Geological Studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
Keywords
origins of pottery, Eastern Woodlands, radiocarbon dating, stratigraphy, funerary contexts, cache memory, nut processing, political economy, container technology, prehistoric archaeology

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