Evolution of Specialized Pottery Production: A Trial Model [and Comments and Reply]

Rice, Prudence M.; Adams, William Y.; Ball, Joseph W.; Davis, Whitney; Earle, Timothy; Fry, Robert E.; Hodder, Ian; Joesink-Mandeville, L. R. V.; Kolb, Charles C.; Nishimura, Masae; Kojo, Yasushi; Dorado, Miguel Rivera; Stark, Barbara; Leeuw, Sander E. van der

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“…Such activity might have been distinct from individual and domestic tasks and could suggest that local production was no longer domestic. All data suggest a more complex social model of production that, in Mid Neolithic societies, might have changed from a family or domestic model to a nonformal or incipient-specialized one, following P. Rice (1981) and S. van der Leeuw (1984).…”

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Archaeometric data on production and circulation of Neolithic Serra d’Alto ware in southern Italy during the fifth millennium BC

Muntoni¹,

Laviano²

2008

archeosciences

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Mid/Late Neolithic Serra d’Alto ware was widely diffused in southern Italy during the fifth millennium BC and shows homogeneous formal and technical features. Its wide distribution and frequent occurrence in funerary or cultual contexts have led many scholars to emphasise its exchange value. The issue of the circulation of finished pots rather than of a production model in different areas of Southern Italy, is explored by means of petrologic, mineralogical and chemical analyses of pottery samples from Apulia, Basilicata and Calabria. The mineralogical and chemical components of the Apulia and Basilicata samples fit very well with those of the Plio-Pleistocene silty clays of the Bradanic Trough, although major and trace element concentrations are significant in distinguishing different sub-groups of pottery related to their precise geographical setting. Calabrian pottery shows the exploitation of a local non-Apulian clay source. The strong similarities in technological processes and the formal analogies between pots found at distant Neolithic sites all over southern Italy does not correspond, then, to an actual exchange of finished pots produced in Apulia or Basilicata. A large network of middle-distance exchange of formal and technological models of production, between many Neolithic sites located in different geographical areas, is therefore proposed.

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confidence: 91%

Archaeometric data on production and circulation of Neolithic Serra d’Alto ware in southern Italy during the fifth millennium BC

Muntoni¹,

Laviano²

2008

archeosciences

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“…In addition, the analysis of Metal Age ceramic variability (Rice 1981), defined in this research as ceramic subregion based on regional groups of stylistic similarities (Ho 1992;Lertrit 2003b;Welch and McNeill 1991), could serve as a second indicator of sociopolitical organization. Local socioeconomic networks (e.g., producer-consumer, kinship, and alliance) might be equated with these shared ceramic groupings (Dietler and Herbich 1998;Nelson and HabichtMauche 2006).…”

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Social Variation and Dynamics in Metal Age and Protohistoric Central Thailand: A Regional Perspective

Eyre¹

2010

asi

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Southeast Asia is one major region where applications of sociopolitical frameworks emphasizing progressive development and increasing degrees of social hierarchy have been argued as inadequate for understanding past societies. Settlement systems in Thailand that existed throughout the period of technological change incorporating the bronze and iron ages have not yet been investigated from a heterarchical viewpoint. While reconnaissance and systematic surveys conducted over the past few decades in Thailand have discovered hundreds of prehistoric sites, a recent survey stressing intensive methodologies to test heterarchical and hierarchical frameworks for best fit with settlement patterns in the region of Kok Samrong-Takhli Undulating Terrain (KSTUT) in the eastern side of the Upper Chao Phraya River Valley has revealed unexpected patterns of land use and settlement systems. This article discusses the methodology and results of the KSTUT Survey in central Thailand. A two-stage survey, a reconnaissance survey followed by a 58 km 2 intensive survey, was conducted in order to locate sites across different landscapes, to identify subregional ceramic variation and possibly geographic shifts in ceramic subregions over time, and to determine evidence for economic specialization among sites of varying sizes. The 25 sites dating between 2000 b.c. and a.d. 1000 provide evidence for a prehistoric settlement system emphasizing long-lived, often large, but heterarchically related occupations. Sharp changes including the appearance of site hierarchy occurred rapidly just prior to the protohistoric period c. a.d. 400, about 1000 years later than previously thought.

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“…Si bien es una cuestión discutida, hay cierto consenso en considerar la homogeneidad tecnológica de las pastas como el indicador del tipo de especialización artesanal que se desarrolla en una cantidad limitada de unidades de producción por alfareros que comparten patrones de elaboración repetitivos (Rice 1981;Sinopoli 1988;Costin y Hagstrum 1995). 13 Especí-ficamente, para el caso del Tardío en el área valliserrana del NOA, esta perspectiva fue considerada para inferir la existencia de producción especializada y estandarizada en estrechamente ligado al de especialización artesanal (Rice 1987;Sinopoli 1988;Blackman et al 1993;Costin y Hasgtrum 1995;Laguens y Juez 2001, entre otros).…”

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“…Por su parte, Sinopoli (1988) considera a la estandarización como reflejo de una producción centralizada o administrada. Los atributos sobre los que se ha medido esta variable son diversos: dimensión y morfología de las piezas, decoración, tecnología y composición de las pastas (Rice 1981;Blackman et al 1993;Costin y Hagstrum 1995). 13 Para una propuesta alternativa sobre la relación entre estandarización en las pastas y la especialización artesanal ver Arnold 2000. el sitio Batungasta, ubicado en el Valle de Abaucán (De la Fuente 2007), y la producción especializada de cerámica Santamariana y Famabalasto Negro Grabado en el valle de Yocavil (Piñeiro 1996;Sjödin 1998;Palamarczuk y Manasiewicz 2001;Palamarczuk 2002Palamarczuk , 2008.…”

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LO QUE ״OCULTA״ EL ESTILO: MATERIAS PRIMAS Y MODOS DE HACER EN LA ALFARERÍA BELÉN: APORTES DESDE LA PETROGRAFÍA DE CONJUNTOS CERÁMICOS DEL VALLE DEL BOLSÓN (BELÉN, CATAMARCA, ARGENTINA)

Puente

2012

Estud. atacam.

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Lo que "oculta" el estilo: materias primas y modos de hacer en la alfarería Belén. Aportes desde la petrografía de conjuntos cerámicos del valle del Bolsón (Belén, Catamarca, Argentina) Verónica Puente 1 ResumenEste trabajo contribuye al estudio de las prácticas de producción alfarera que se desarrollaron durante el lapso comprendido entre ca. 900-1600 DC en el área valliserrana del Noroeste Argentino, a partir del análisis tecnológico de conjuntos cerámicos identificados bajo la unidad estilística Belén. El tema se aborda a través de estudios petrográficos de una muestra numerosa procedente del valle del Bolsón (Catamarca, Argentina). Los resultados alcanzados permitieron identificar la coexistencia de elecciones compartidas y otras diferenciadas entre los alfareros que elaboraron estas piezas. Se destaca gran homogeneidad en las materias primas utilizadas, las cuales a su vez coinciden con las identificadas en la región, pero se reconoce diversidad en otros aspectos de la elaboración de las piezas, resultados que se interpretan como consecuencia de una producción de pequeña escala y baja intensidad.Palabras claves: estilo Belén -modos de hacer -materias primas.Abstract This paper contributes to the knowledge of ceramic production in the Valliserrana area (Northwest Argentina) during the AD 900-1600 period through the technological analysis of ceramic assemblages of the Belen stylistic unit. The subject is approached on the basis of petrographic studies of a large sample of fragments from the Bolson Valley (Catamarca, Argentina). The results indicate that some technological choices were shared by the potters who made the vessels, but others were not. There is a remarkable homogeneity in the raw materials, which correspond to those characterized in the region, but there is considerable diversity in other aspects of their manufacture. These trends are interpreted as a result of small scale, low intensity production.

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Evolution of Specialized Pottery Production: A Trial Model [and Comments and Reply]

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Archaeometric data on production and circulation of Neolithic Serra d’Alto ware in southern Italy during the fifth millennium BC

Archaeometric data on production and circulation of Neolithic Serra d’Alto ware in southern Italy during the fifth millennium BC

Social Variation and Dynamics in Metal Age and Protohistoric Central Thailand: A Regional Perspective

LO QUE ״OCULTA״ EL ESTILO: MATERIAS PRIMAS Y MODOS DE HACER EN LA ALFARERÍA BELÉN: APORTES DESDE LA PETROGRAFÍA DE CONJUNTOS CERÁMICOS DEL VALLE DEL BOLSÓN (BELÉN, CATAMARCA, ARGENTINA)

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Evolution of Specialized Pottery Production: A Trial Model [and Comments and Reply]

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Archaeometric data on production and circulation of Neolithic Serra d’Alto ware in southern Italy during the fifth millennium BC

Archaeometric data on production and circulation of Neolithic Serra d’Alto ware in southern Italy during the fifth millennium BC

Social Variation and Dynamics in Metal Age and Protohistoric Central Thailand: A Regional Perspective

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LO QUE ״OCULTA״ EL ESTILO: MATERIAS PRIMAS Y MODOS DE HACER EN LA ALFARERÍA BELÉN: APORTES DESDE LA PETROGRAFÍA DE CONJUNTOS CERÁMICOS DEL VALLE DEL BOLSÓN (BELÉN, CATAMARCA, ARGENTINA)