Domestic Ceramic Production and Spatial Organization

A Mexican Case Study in Ethnoarchaeology

Philip J Arnold III author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:4th Dec '03

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This ethnoarchaeological study looks at contemporary household-scale ceramic production in several Mexican communities.

This pioneering ethnoarchaeological study is of contemporary ceramic production and consumption in several villages in the Los Tuxtlas region of Mexico. While many archaeologists have identified ceramic production zones in the archaeological record, their identifying criteria have often been vague and impressionistic. The present book's contribution is to use ethnographic research to suggest how archaeologists might consistently recognise ceramic manufacturing. It also places ceramic production in larger cultural contexts and provides details of the ecology, production, distribution, use, discard, and site formation processes. Philip Arnold's critical observations on some of the serious weaknesses in archaeological interpretations of ceramic production will interest Mesoamericanists and all other archaeologists grappling with these, and related, issues.

'Philip Arnold clearly demonstrates how contemporary data can assist scholars in recognizing the archaeological evidence of ceramic manufacture. His work is worthy of emulation.' Man

ISBN: 9780521545839

Dimensions: 246mm x 189mm x 11mm

Weight: 360g

196 pages