Rock Shelters as Women's Retreats: Understanding Newt Kash

This paper provides a cultural context for the cache of early domesticated seeds found in Newt Kash Shelter in eastern Kentucky. Based on the abundant fibers, bedding, nuts, cradleboard, bedrock mortar, shell spoons, abundance of potential medicinal plants, infrequent fauna, and arrangement of pits,...

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Published in:American antiquity 2011-10, Vol.76 (4), p.628-641
Main Author: Claassen, Cheryl
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anthropology
Archaeology
Archeology
Bedrock
Caves
Cordage
Cultural factors
Ethnology
Historical source materials
Medicine
Meetings
Newts
Nuts
Plants
Shelters
Sources and methods
Spoons
Womens shelters
Womens studies
Woodlands
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Summary:This paper provides a cultural context for the cache of early domesticated seeds found in Newt Kash Shelter in eastern Kentucky. Based on the abundant fibers, bedding, nuts, cradleboard, bedrock mortar, shell spoons, abundance of potential medicinal plants, infrequent fauna, and arrangement of pits, Newt Kash may have been a women's retreat place during menstruation, birthing, and sickness, and possibly the meeting place of a medicine society. There are other possible retreat shelters in this region and elsewhere.
ISSN:0002-7316
2325-5064
DOI:10.7183/0002-7316.76.4.628