Community Identity and Archaeology by Mac Sweeney Naoíse;Mac Sweeney Nao Se;Mac Sweeney Naoaise;

Author:Mac Sweeney, Naoíse;Mac Sweeney, Nao Se;Mac Sweeney, Naoaise;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Level III Enactments of Community

The remains of Level III Beycesultan do show signs of a coherent sense of community identity at the site, constructed through social practices and enactments of community. Specifically, these enactments of community seem to have taken the form of communal dining activities. Feasting or commensality can be inferred for two reasons. First, fineware dining vessels constitute a conspicuously large proportion of the overall ceramic assemblage recovered (table 2). Even allowing for the biases in the excavation records that skew the assemblage in favor of decorated finewares, the ceramics from this phase show an unusually large amount of shapes associated with drinking, serving, and pouring. Second, these dining vessels were found concentrated in specific areas within the site, implying their use in relatively large-scale communal dining activities. Most notably, almost half of all dining vessels were found within one out of the six structures that were excavated (Building iv), and no dining shapes at all are recorded in some of the structures (table 5). The combination of this notable emphasis on dining shapes in the assemblage with their spatial concentration within the site suggests that some kind of feasting or at least commensality was practiced in LBA Beycesultan.

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