Human Adaptation in Ancient Mesoamerica by Nancy Gonlin Kirk D. French

Author:Nancy Gonlin, Kirk D. French [Nancy Gonlin, Kirk D. French]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Archaeology
ISBN: 9781457197512
Google: bWAQCwAAQBAJ
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2015-10-28T05:17:18+00:00

Dietary Data: Aggregate Instead of Individual Level Distinctions

Another conclusion that can be drawn from our data is that social behavior as reflected in diet was directly affected by sex, but only indirectly influenced by social position. Markers of social status were not directly linked to differences in diet and nutrition at Copan. Furthermore, the differences in the results between site-type comparisons and mortuary-score comparisons lead us to suggest that distinction in diet may have functioned at an aggregate or social group level instead of at an individual level. That is to say, the great variability evident in status in the artifact and mortuary data from elite sites was not translated into differential access to diet (figure 8.7).

Figure 8.7. Stable carbon and nitrogen measurements representing male to female adult diets grouped by mortuary score subdivisions with 90% confidence ellipses around the bivariate mean.

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