Teotihuacan pottery as evidence for subsistence practices involving maguey sap
Teotihuacan pottery as evidence for subsistence practices involving maguey sap
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特奥蒂瓦坎陶器作为涉及龙舌兰汁液的生存实践的证据
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
M. Oralia Cabrera Cortés
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作者：
Ian G. Robertson;M. Oralia Cabrera Cortés
与大多数其他前工业化城市一样，特奥蒂瓦坎的城市生活与陶瓷技术紧密相连，或许在饮食领域尤其如此。在这里，我们利用来自古代陶器的两种信息——陶瓷残留物和遗址内陶片分布模式——来为这座城市的自给经济提供新的视角。我们特别关注双耳细颈瓶，这是一种可能用于盛放龙舌兰汁液和龙舌兰酒的液体食品的容器。从特奥蒂瓦坎测绘项目的地表收集中提取的分布数据提供了有关整个城市范围内这些盆的使用模式变化的信息。更有针对性的分析旨在对最近挖掘出的陶瓷碎片中保存的有机残留物进行化学表征。作为旨在识别动物和植物遗骸的更广泛项目的一部分，残留物分析的结果首次对特奥蒂瓦坎陶器中的龙舌兰残骸进行了直接鉴定。
As in most other pre-industrial cities, urban life at Teotihuacan was closely intertwined with ceramic technology, perhaps nowhere more so than in the realm of foodways. Here, we use two kinds of information derived from ancient pottery—ceramic residues and intra-site sherd distribution patterns—to shed new light on the city’s subsistence economy. We concentrate in particular on the amphora, a type of vessel that may have been used to contain aguamiel and pulque, liquid foodstuffs made of maguey sap. Distributional data distilled from surface collections of the Teotihuacan Mapping Project are informative about patterned variation in the use of these pots at the scale of the entire city. More focused analyses are aimed at chemical characterization of organic residues preserved in ceramic sherds recovered from recent excavations. Part of a broader project aimed at identifying both animal and plant remains, the results of the residue analysis provide the first direct identification of pulque remains in Teotihuacan pottery.