Ceramic production in the American Southwest
By: edited by Barbara J. Mills and Patricia L. Crown.
Contributors: Mills, Barbara J., 1955-; Crown, Patricia L.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press; Brand: University of Arizona Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Pueblo pottery -- Themes, motives.; Pueblo pottery -- Classification.; Ceramic materials -- Southwest, New -- Analysis.; Ethnoarchaeology -- Southwest, New.; Southwest, New -- Antiquities.
Description: Southwestern ceramics have always been admired for their variety and aesthetic beauty. Although ceramics are most often used for placing the peoples who produced them in time, they can also provide important clues to past economic organization. This volume covers nearly one thousand years of southwestern prehistory and history, focusing on ceramic production in a number of environmental and economic contexts. It brings together the best of current research to illustrate the variation in the organization of production evident in this single geographic area.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.