The origins of pottery as a practical domestic technology: Evidence from the middle Queen Creek area, Arizona

Garraty, Christopher P.

doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2011.03.001

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“…The analysis of use-alteration traces is now becoming routine part of ceramic analysis (e.g., Garraty 2011;Hally 1983;Hardin and Mills 2000;López Varela et al 2002Sassaman 1993. These types of studies have shown that use-alteration traces can provide much more specific information about pottery function that include what was stored or cooked in vessels, whether it was used over a fire, the method of cooking used, and also the reuse and recycling of ceramic material.…”

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Use-Wear and Residue Analysis in Archaeology

2015

Manuals in Archaeological Method, Theory and Technique

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Use-Wear and Residue Analysis in Archaeology

2015

Manuals in Archaeological Method, Theory and Technique

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“…Both of these transitions are marked by changes similar to that of the Mesoamerican Formative—larger and longer-lasting settlements with more substantial architecture, abundant maize in the macrobotanical record, and 13 C-enriched bone collagen consistent with the consumption of C 4 plants (Carpenter et al 2015; Coltrain and Janetski 2013; Geib 2011; Vint 2018). In this case, pottery appeared later, around the last few centuries of the first millennium BC in the Sonoran Desert (Garraty 2011) and a few hundred years later on the Colorado Plateau (Skibo and Blinman 1999).…”

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Large-Scale Patterns in the Agricultural Demographic Transition of Mesoamerica and Southwestern North America

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This article examines large-scale spatial and temporal patterns in the agricultural demographic transition (ADT) of Mesoamerica and southwestern North America (“the Southwest”). An analysis of published settlement and subsistence data suggests that the prolonged ADTs of these regions involved two successive eras of rapid population growth. Although both periods of growth were fueled by the introduction or development of more productive domesticates, they had distinctive demographic and social consequences. The first phase of the ADT occurred only in a scattering of favorable regions, between 1900 and 1000 BC in Mesoamerica and 1200 BC–AD 400 in the Southwest. Its demographic consequences were modest because it was underwritten by still rather unproductive maize. During this phase, increased population was confined mainly to a few agricultural heartlands, whereas surrounding regions remained sparsely populated. The second phase of the ADT was more dramatic in the spatial scale of its impact. This “high productivity” phase unfolded between 1000 and 200 BC in Mesoamerica and AD 500–1300 in the Southwest, and it was fueled by more productive maize varieties and improving agricultural technologies. It was accompanied by sweeping social, economic, and political changes in both regions.

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“…Ceramic containers thus became a medium for 'aggrandisers' to build political alliances and court potential followers during public gatherings. Christopher Garraty (2011) suggested that these prestige technologies became widely imitated and in time reinvented as practical technologies.…”

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“…They have highly variable vessel wall thickness, textural surface treatments such as incising, punctuating, and impressing, and the rare use of slips or paint. Individual or small group serving vessels dominate assemblages, followed by and storage and cooking pots (Heidke 2005;Mabry 2005;Garraty 2011;Eckert 2014). Almost half of the early ceramics were deposited in contexts interpreted as having a ceremonial, ritual, or integrative function.…”

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Ceramics among Eurasian hunter-gatherers: 32 000 years of ceramic technology use and the perception of containment

Budja

2016

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We present two parallel and 32 000 years long trajectories of episodic ceramic technology use in Eurasian pre-Neolithic hunter-gatherer societies. In eastern, Asian trajectory the pottery was produced from the beginning. Ceramic figurines mark the western, European trajectory. The western predates the eastern for about eleven millennia. While ceramic cones and figurines first appeared in Central Europe at c. 31 000 cal BC the earliest vessels in eastern Asia was dated at c. 20 000 cal BC. We discuss women’s agency, perception of containment, ‘cross-craft interactions’, and evolution of private property that that may influenced the inventions of ceramic (pyro)technology.

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The origins of pottery as a practical domestic technology: Evidence from the middle Queen Creek area, Arizona

Cited by 16 publications

References 27 publications

Use-Wear and Residue Analysis in Archaeology

Use-Wear and Residue Analysis in Archaeology

Large-Scale Patterns in the Agricultural Demographic Transition of Mesoamerica and Southwestern North America

Ceramics among Eurasian hunter-gatherers: 32 000 years of ceramic technology use and the perception of containment

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