ABSTRACT

Recent excavations at the ranchería at Mission Santa Clara de Asís (CA-SCL-30H) yielded large, well-preserved, and well-contextualized faunal and plant assemblages from habitations by Native Americans. This study explores the use and deposition of faunal and plant resources as part of the subsistence regime and ritual performance of the Native Americans who occupied the adobe structures at Mission Santa Clara de Asís. These activities occurred both within the privacy of adobe houses and in the more public and communal spaces between structures, in what we have termed the “courtyard.” It is argued here that both contexts allowed the performance of native practices and that plants and animal resources, even in the face of apparent diminished access to wild resources, played a particularly important role in these activities.

摘要

最近在 Mission Santa Clara de Asís (CA-SCL-30H) 的牧场进行的发掘从美洲原住民的栖息地中发现了大量、保存完好且背景良好的动植物群落。这项研究探讨了动物和植物资源的使用和沉积，作为居住在 Mission Santa Clara de Asís 土坯结构的美洲原住民的生存制度和仪式表演的一部分。这些活动既发生在土坯房的私密空间内，也发生在结构之间更为公共和公共的空间中，我们称之为“庭院”。这里的论点是，这两种情况都允许进行本地实践，而且植物和动物资源，即使在野生资源的获取明显减少的情况下，在这些活动中也发挥了特别重要的作用。