Residential Mobility and Ceramic Exchange: Ethnography and Archaeological Implications |
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Authors: | Margaret E Beck |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa, 114 Macbride Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242-1322, USA |
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Abstract: | After the appearance of agriculture and subsequent increasing population densities and agricultural intensification, some
mobile hunters, foragers, and part-time horticulturalists often obtained ceramic vessels from nearby villages. Mobile groups
are firmly embedded within regional patterns of interaction and exchange. Certain regional interaction patterns encourage
use of vessels made by a sedentary neighbor, and the factors that would discourage it are less significant than previously
believed. The vessels made by neighboring agriculturalists may often be as well suited to the tasks and settlement pattern
of mobile groups as vessels made by the mobile groups themselves. Given the probable frequency with which mobile groups discarded
ceramics made by a neighboring group, archaeologists should consider this scenario when interpreting ceramic frequencies in
remote small sites, where some ceramics may be far from the villages in which they were apparently made. Using an archaeological
case study from the Western Papaguería of the US Southwest, I propose using vessel techno-function, along with other data,
to place individual sites within a broader settlement system. The settlement system, rather than diagnostic ceramic types,
may be most useful for assigning these sites to particular cultural traditions and for understanding patterns of landscape
use. |
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