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Materiality, Techniques and Society in Pottery Production
Daniel Albero Santacreu presents a wide overview of certain aspects of the pottery analysis and summarizes most of the methodological and theoretical information currently applied in archaeology in order to develop wide and deep analysis of ceramic pastes. The book provides an adequate framework for understanding the way pottery production is organised and clarifies the meaning and role of the pottery in archaeological and traditional societies. The goal of this book is to encourage reflection, especially by those researchers who face the analysis of ceramics for the first time, by providing a background for the generation of their own research and to formulate their own questions depending on their concerns and interests. The three-part structure of the book allows readers to move easily from the analysis of the reality and ceramic material culture to the world of the ideas and theories and to develop a dialogue between data and their interpretation. Daniel Albero Santacreu is a Lecturer Assistant in the University of the Balearic Islands, member of the Research Group Arqueo UIB and the Ceramic Petrology Group. He has carried out the analysis of ceramics from several prehistoric societies placed in the Western Mediterranean, as well as the study of handmade pottery from contemporary ethnic groups in Northeast Ghana.
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Social Change and the Evolution of Ceramic Production and Distribution in a Maya Community
How and why do ceramics and their production change through time? Social Change and the Evolution of Ceramic Production and Distribution in a Maya Community is a unique ethno-archaeological study that attempts to answer these questions by tracing social change among potters and changes in the production and distribution of their pottery in a single Mexican community between 1965 and 1997. Dean E. Arnold made ten visits to Ticul, Yucatan, Mexico, witnessing the changes in transportation infrastructure, the use of piped water, and the development of tourist resorts. Even in this context of social change and changes in the demand for pottery, most of the potters in 1997 came from the families that had made pottery in 1965. This book traces changes and continuities in that population of potters, in the demand and distribution of pottery, and in the procurement of clay and temper, paste composition, forming, and firing. In this volume, Arnold bridges the gap between archaeology and ethnography, using his analysis of contemporary ceramic production and distribution to generate new theoretical explanations for archaeologists working with pottery from antiquity. When the descriptions and explanations of Arnold's findings in Ticul are placed in the context of the literature on craft specialization, a number of insights can be applied to the archaeological record that confirm, contradict, and nuance generalizations concerning the evolution of ceramic specialization. This book will be of special interest to anthropologists, archaeologists, and ethnographers.
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A Commentary on Two Scientific Studies of the RUMA (אמור)Jar from Qumran
Two chemical studies of the RUMA jar from Qumran Cave 7 are examined. It is shown that these researches, seemingly at odds, have more in common than not. It is argued that the evidence from both studies point to Jerusalem as the origin of the RUMA jar although one of the studies concludes that the RUMA jar was locally made in Qumran from local clay. The data from both studies are consistent but the interpretations differ.
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The Swift Creek Gift
Assesses Woodland Period interactions using technofunctional,
mineralogical, and chemical data derived from Swift Creek
Complicated Stamped sherds A unique dataset for
studying past social interactions comes from Swift Creek
Complicated Stamped pottery that linked sites throughout much of
the Eastern Woodlands but that was primarily distributed over the
lower Southeast. Although connections have been demonstrated,
their significance has remained enigmatic. How and why were
apparently utilitarian vessels, or the wooden tools used to make
them, distributed widely across the landscape?
This book assesses Woodland Period interactions using
technofunctional, mineralogical, and chemical data derived from
Swift Creek Complicated Stamped sherds whose provenience is fully
documented from both mortuary mounds and village middens along
the Atlantic coast. Together, these data demonstrate formal and
functional differences between mortuary and village assemblages
along with the nearly exclusive occurrence of foreign-made
cooking pots in mortuary contexts.
The Swift Creek Gift provides insight into the unique
workings of gift exchanges to transform seemingly mundane
materials like cooking pots into powerful tools of commemoration,
affiliation, and ownership.
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Multiproxy Analysis of Adhered and Absorbed Food Residues Associated with Pottery
The application of multiple lines of evidence is necessary to understand past complex behaviors such as diet and cuisine. This paper advocates for the use of multiple proxies to analyze the compositional content of absorbed and adhered food residues associated with ceramic cooking pots. Foods represented by starches and phytoliths in adhered carbonized residues, carbon and nitrogen stable isotope values in adhered residues, and absorbed lipid residues are identified. Patterns of interior carbonized food remains are used to interpret cooking mode or style, and, when considered in context with identified food types, allow for the reconstruction of ancient cooking practices and cuisine. The collective results provide a more holistic picture of ancient cuisine than any individual proxy because of the unique yet complementary data each provides. The efficacy of this approach is demonstrated with a curated pottery assemblage from the Northern Great Lakes in what is today the state of Michigan. However, the multiproxy analysis described is applicable to pottery collections found anywhere in the world.
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Where Worlds Collide: Late Woodland Potting Practice and Social Interaction in Upstate South Carolina
Many anthropologists have now adopted a relational view of the culture concept. Much research has shown that, far from being bounded or self-replicating, cultures emerge through interactions between social Others. These findings are particularly important to research on borderlands and peripheries, where communities routinely encounter wide-ranging social and political diversity. We present ceramic frequencies alongside petrographic analysis from the Late Woodland component at Esseneca (38OC20) to illustrate two main points: (1) pottery types previously understood as culture historical isolates co-occur in parts of Upstate South Carolina, and (2) potters collected clays from two main geologic formations near the site. This research shows that communities in the region traveled freely, crossing cultural boundaries while acquiring potting clays. We suggest that this level of interaction between disparate social groups laid the foundation for some aspects of Mississippianization in the region.
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Political Change and Material Culture in Middle to Late Bronze Age Canaan
Do shifts in material culture instigate administrative change,
or is it the shifting political winds that affect material culture?
This is the central question that Shlomit Bechar addresses in this
book, taking the transition from the Middle to Late Bronze Age
(seventeenth-fourteenth centuries BCE) in northern Canaan as a test
case.
Combining archaeological and historical analysis, Bechar
identifies the most significant changes evident in architectural
and ceramic remains from this period and then explores how and why
contemporary political shifts may have influenced, or been
influenced by, these developments. Bechar persuasively argues that
the Egyptian conquest of the southern Levant-enabled by local
economic decline following the expulsion of the Hyksos and the fall
of northern Syrian cities-was the impetus for these changes in
ceramics and architecture. Using a macro-typological approach to
examine the ceramic assemblages, she also discusses the impact of
the influx of Aegean imports, suggesting that while \"attached
specialists\" were primarily responsible for ceramic production in
the Middle Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age ceramics were increasingly
made by \"independent specialists,\" another important result of the
new administrative system created following Thutmose III's
campaign.
An important contribution to our understanding of the transition
between the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, this original and
insightful book will appeal to specialists in the Bronze Age
Levant, especially those interested in using ceramic assemblages to
examine social and political change.
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