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The effect of environmental change and economic power on the diet of Tarascan elites.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The effect of environmental change and economic power on the diet of Tarascan elites./
Author:	Cahue, Laura.
Description:	167 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-03, Section: A, page: 1109.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-03A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Physical. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3009093
ISBN:	049318323X

The effect of environmental change and economic power on the diet of Tarascan elites.
Cahue, Laura.

The effect of environmental change and economic power on the diet of Tarascan elites. - 167 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-03, Section: A, page: 1109.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 2001.

The Tarascan state emerged in the Lake Patzcuaro basin (LPB) during the Postclassic period (A.D. 900--A.D. 1520), when the water level of Lake Patzcuaro was fluctuating. As these environmental changes were taking place and the food resources shifted, the population in the basin was undergoing rapid growth, reaching an estimated 80,000 by the time the Spaniards arrived in A.D. 1520 (Pollard, 1982; Pollard, 1993). By comparing population size and shifting food resources in the LPB, Gorenstein and Pollard (1983) showed that by the Late Postclassic (A.D. 1400 to A.D. 1520), the basin was unable to produce enough maize to feed this population. How could the Tarascan state, the second largest in Mesoamerica, and one that dominated western Mexico at the time of European contact, emerge under such dietary constraints?

ISBN: 049318323XSubjects--Topical Terms:

877524
Anthropology, Physical.

The effect of environmental change and economic power on the diet of Tarascan elites.
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520 $a The Tarascan state emerged in the Lake Patzcuaro basin (LPB) during the Postclassic period (A.D. 900--A.D. 1520), when the water level of Lake Patzcuaro was fluctuating. As these environmental changes were taking place and the food resources shifted, the population in the basin was undergoing rapid growth, reaching an estimated 80,000 by the time the Spaniards arrived in A.D. 1520 (Pollard, 1982; Pollard, 1993). By comparing population size and shifting food resources in the LPB, Gorenstein and Pollard (1983) showed that by the Late Postclassic (A.D. 1400 to A.D. 1520), the basin was unable to produce enough maize to feed this population. How could the Tarascan state, the second largest in Mesoamerica, and one that dominated western Mexico at the time of European contact, emerge under such dietary constraints?
520 $a Ethnohistoric documents indicate that the Tarascan state was not an economically viable unit, and that it existed, and even thrived, only through the establishment of differential mechanisms of economic exchange (Pollard, 1982; Pollard, 1993). Non-elites obtained goods (including maize and beans) through the intensification of local and regional markets or subsistence activities, while the elites obtained most of their goods by outright ownership of local production or by tribute secured through militarism (Pollard, 1993). This study hypothesized that this differential adaptation of elites and non-elites (which excluded agricultural intensification and hydraulic works) served to buffer the elite population in the LPB from dietary change as the Tarascan state emerged.
520 $a To test this hypothesis the diets of Pre-Tarascan and Tarascan elites were compared. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes (delta13C and delta15N values respectively) of bone collagen were used to assess temporal and regional variation in diet.
520 $a The results show that the diet of elites in the Lake Patzcuaro Basin did not change over time. Among Tarascan administrative centers, elites at those administrative centers with a higher rank showed diets that were higher in relative proportions of maize than those of lower rank. The diet of elites at the capital city of Tzintzuntzan was significantly different from that of elites elsewhere. Elites in the Sayula Basin had diets closely resembling the diet of Tarascan elites from Tzintzuntzan, supporting the ethnohistoric and archaeological evidence for the presence of Tarascan administrators sent from Tzintzuntzan. Differences between males and females were not systematically examined due to inadequate samples, but a preliminary comparison of the data does not show a difference in diet between the two groups.
520 $a This dissertation is the first bioarchaeological study of palaeodiet in the Lake Patzcuaro Basin, and it is the first step of a long term research agenda designed to understand human adaptation strategies to highland lake environments in west Mexico. Future research will aim to improve overall sample size, improve the female to male ratio in the samples, and to improve the regional distribution of samples.
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