Social change and the evolution of ceramic production and distribution in a Maya community
In: Mesoamerican worlds
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In: Mesoamerican worlds
In: New studies in archaeology
In: Ecological research series 80,12
In: The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 19, Issue 2, p. 439-440
ISSN: 1467-9655
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 91, Issue 1, p. 258-258
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 79, Issue 3, p. 672-674
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: Ethnos, Volume 37, Issue 1-4, p. 81-87
ISSN: 1469-588X
In: The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 1, Issue 4, p. 835
ISSN: 1467-9655
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 22, Issue 3, p. 563
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 12, Issue 3/4, p. 551
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 93, Issue 1, p. 70-90
ISSN: 1548-1433
One of the important assumptions of compositional analysis is that the elemental composition of an artifact reflects the source of the materials used to make it. Thus, pottery from a particular source will be chemically similar to the raw materials from that source. This "commonsense" assumption seems beyond dispute, but the fact that pottery is a mixture of clay, water, and often temper added by the potter, complicates the interpretation of compositional data from ceramics. This article examines the relationship between potters' behavior in obtaining and using raw materials, on the one hand, and the chemical composition of their finished pottery, on the other, by comparing the elemental composition of ethnographic pottery and raw materials from contemporary pottery‐making communities in the Valley of Guatemala. The results of this research show that the relationship between pottery and its constituent raw materials is not as obvious as was first supposed. The article concludes with an alternative approach to compositional analysis that is more in line with the realities of real‐world pottery production.
In: Current anthropology, Volume 16, Issue 4, p. 636-640
ISSN: 1537-5382
In: Current anthropology, Volume 20, Issue 4, p. 727-744
ISSN: 1537-5382
In: Current anthropology, Volume 16, Issue 2, p. 183-205
ISSN: 1537-5382