Gendered Households and Ceramic Assemblage Formation in the Mariana Islands, Western Pacific from Pacific Region Experience

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dc.contributor.authorMiller, Jacy M
dc.contributor.authorMoore, Darlene R
dc.contributor.authorBayman, James M
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-03T20:15:01Z
dc.date.available2024-06-03T20:15:01Z
dc.date.issued2021-05-28
dc.description.abstractThe archaeological investigation of gendered labor is vital for interpreting households in the Mariana Islands because Spanish documentary accounts are largely silent regarding their spatial organization. Preliminary analyses of excavated materials from a household on the island of Guam revealed that it comprised two adjacent buildings (latte) that were economically integrated and within which craft activities by women and men were spatially segregated. More detailed analyses of ceramic assemblages confirm that household labor was gendered in other respects. Women prepared and stored food in large ceramic vessels at the building where they also conducted craftwork, whereas men consumed food from smaller serving vessels at the adjacent building where they crafted. This household arrangement illustrates gender complementarity in a matrilineal society that also exhibited aspects of a gender hierarchy wherein women had significant power during the Late Latte and early Spanish Contact periods (ca. A.D. 1500–1700
dc.identifier.issn0066-8435 (Print)
dc.identifier.issn1535-8283 (E-ISSN)
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10125/108216
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVolume 60
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNumber 1
dc.subjectceramics
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjecthouseholds
dc.subjectarchaeology
dc.subjectContact
dc.subjectMariana Islands
dc.titleGendered Households and Ceramic Assemblage Formation in the Mariana Islands, Western Pacific from Pacific Region Experience
dc.typeArticle
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