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SOCIOECONOMIC INEQUALITY AND DIFFERENTIAL ACCESS TO FAUNAL RESOURCES AT EL PALMILLO, OAXACA, MEXICO

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2006

Mikael J. Haller ,
Gary M. Feinman  and
Linda M. Nicholas
Mikael J. Haller
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia B2G 2W5 Canada
Gary M. Feinman
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, The Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
Linda M. Nicholas
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, The Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
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Abstract

Differential access to faunal resources (meat) is one index of socioeconomic inequality that traditionally has been considered but rarely investigated in ancient Mesoamerica. Recent excavations in residential contexts at the Classic-period hilltop terrace site of El Palmillo, in the Valley of Oaxaca (Mexico), have produced a large faunal assemblage from a set of different households. Terrace-by-terrace comparisons reveal spatial variability in the distribution of faunal remains, with the gradient of access running from households near the base of the hill to contexts near the site's apex. Residents of households near the top not only had more overall access to meat but greater access to specific species. Nevertheless, these gradations in access to fauna are not as strikingly marked as architectural differences between various residential units at the site, nor do they coincide entirely with patterns of architectural variation or the distribution of portable wealth items such as obsidian and green stone. Socioeconomic inequality appears to have been manifested through multiple dimensions at pre-Hispanic El Palmillo, with the overarching variation not easily definable into two or three categorical divisions or classes.

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Ancient Mesoamerica , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , January 2006 , pp. 39 - 55
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