book chapter
Temper analysis of ceramics: Appendix D
Field Museum of Natural History • (21) • Published In 1993 • Pages: 201-211
By: Lucius, William A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
'Analysis of sherds from the Kayenta, Long House, and Klethla valleys was undertaken to examine possible exchange of ceramics among valleys as a measure of their levels of interaction during the Tsegi Phase.... Determination of intraregional ceramic movements initially requires identification of temper and paste combinations that can be correlated with specific locales of manufacture.... [T]hese apparent production locales defined by temper are called tracts ... and indicate there was consistent selection of a specific tempering agent for ceramic production that varied from place to place….' (page 201). Lucius determined the most likely sources of the raw materials used to produce the ceramics and found that different temper sources were used to produce the whitewares for each valley. 'The distribution of ceramics by temper type over the research area indicates that the largest production localities, or localities from which whitewares were distributed the farthest, seem to have been located at the two ends of the research area.' (page 210). The ceramics did not show a clear gap between production locales and so do not appear to reflect the political boundaries as seen in the settlement pattern. Instead, ceramics gradually change with distance from their production locality.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ceramic technology
- Mineral resources
- Commercial facilities
- Exchange and transfers
- Cultural participation
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Early Anasazi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2011
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Tsegi phase; 750-700 BP (AD 1250-1300)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northeastern Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- William A. Lucius
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 06020329
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Pueblo Indians--Antiquities
- Ceramics--Research
- Archaeology--Methodology
- Indian pottery