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The role of population movement and technology transfer in the manufacture of prehistoric Southwestern ceramics
ceramic production in the american southwest • Tucson • Published In 1995 • Pages: 115-141
By: Zedeño, María Nieves.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Differential distributions of prehistoric ceramics over broad areas of the American Southwest are often interpreted as the result of exchange networks of varied magnitude and complexity. Much effort has been devoted to the reconstruction of the ceramic distribution system and their economic, social, and political implications....However, current evidence of population movement throughout Southwestern prehistory...strongly suggests that variation in the ceramic record was the result of not only the circulation of pottery, but also the movement of people bearing knowledge on distinctive pottery technologies. This article reviews recent data on ceramic manufacture and circulation during the late Pueblo III period occupation of the Grasshopper region in east-central Arizona…to illustrate how population movement had a major role in the generation of highly varied assemblages (p. 115).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ceramic technology
- Internal migration
- Visual arts
- Cultural participation
- Inter-community relations
- Exchange transactions
- Sociocultural trends
- Acculturation and culture contact
- 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
- essay
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2011
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 850-700 BP (AD 1150-1300)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Grasshopper Region, East-Central Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- María Nieves Zedeño
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-141)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 9500877195008771
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Pueblo pottery--Themes, motives
- Pueblo pottery--Classification
- Ceramic materials--Southwest, New--Analysis
- Ethnoarchaeology--Southwest, New
- Southwest, New--Antiquities