Ethnoarchaeology and Paleodemography: A Test of Turner and Lofgren's Hypothesis
- 1 July 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in Journal of Anthropological Research
- Vol. 37 (2) , 107-129
- https://doi.org/10.1086/jar.37.2.3629704
Abstract
Ethnographic data from a contemporary Highland Mayan village are used to test Turner and Lofgren's (1966) proposition that the capacities of cooking vessels reflect the size of households. Some variation in the volumes of cooking jars in the present sample probably is due to differences in household size. However, it appears that significant amounts of variation also can be explained by reference to conditions that are indirectly related to social status and wealth. Problems and prospects for archaeological application of the measure are discussed.Keywords
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