caa a22 4500 388078154 CHVBK 20180307125204.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199904 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0959774300015225 doi S0959774300015225 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0959774300015225 The Dead Must be Fed: Symbolic Meanings of the Shellmounds of the San Francisco Bay Area [Elektronische Daten] Long viewed as ‘kitchen middens', the shellmounds of the San Francisco Bay Area have -provided archaeologists of coastal California insight into the subsistence and ecology of precontact native groups. In this article, the authors develop a framework for understanding the cultural significance of these shellmounds which regards them as intentional cultural features, incorporates social context, and builds on earlier subsistence-focused studies of the shellmounds in order to better appreciate the meaning of the numerous human remains interred therein. A structural analysis is then used to show that the concepts of food and ancestors joined together at shellmounds, so much so that ritual attention to the ancestors was very likely regarded as essential to ensuring a continuing supply of food. Copyright © The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 1999 Luby Edward M. Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, 103 Kroeber Hall, and Archaeological Research Facility, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Gruber Mark F. Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, PA 15650, USA Cambridge Archaeological Journal Cambridge University Press 9/1(1999-04), 95-108 0959-7743 9:1<95 1999 9 CAJ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774300015225 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774300015225 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Luby Edward M. Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, 103 Kroeber Hall, and Archaeological Research Facility, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gruber Mark F. Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, PA 15650, USA NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cambridge Archaeological Journal Cambridge University Press 9/1(1999-04), 95-108 0959-7743 9:1<95 1999 9 CAJ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge