ABSTRACT
A comparison of Kalasha and Kho subsistence patterns in Chitral, NWFP, Pakistan
Ruth Young, Robin Coningham, Catherine Batt and Ihsan Ali
Identifying ideological change or continuity within the archaeological record is one of the major questions of archaeological research, and proposed methodologies to answer this question have included the analysis of subsistence material. This paper presents the preliminary results from fieldwork in 1999 in the Chitral region of Pakistan, expressly directed at understanding more about the subsistence base of two ideologically disparate groups, the Kalasha and the Kho. The subsistence patterns from each group are compared, and are found to be very similar in many respects. This information is then used to test Parkes' (1987) structural model for Kalasha social organisation and livestock symbolism, and the significance of this study for the use of subsistence material as an indicator of ideological change is discussed.