Function And Technology Of Anasazi Ceramics From Black Mesa Arizona

The foundation of the anasazi ceramic tradition was the cooking pot.

Function and technology of anasazi ceramics from black mesa arizona.

A key site of the rio grande developmental period. Hill reconstructible vessels. Experimentation with the geologic clays began in the 6th cen tury and by the beginning of the 7th century the technology had been fine tuned setting the stage for the next 600 years of anasazi pottery production. In function and technology of anasazi ceramics from black mesa arizona edited by marion f.

Making and using ceramics on black mesa. University of new mexico albuquerque. 1994 perforated and unperforated plates as tools for pottery manufacture. Introduction and background for ceramic studies marion f.

Current historians extend the time of the anasazi to 1700. Museum of northern arizona ceramic series 3b flagstaff. El morro valley prehistory project ceramic form keith kintigh arizona state university emvpp ceramic guide keith kintigh and others arizona state university cibola white ware identification flowchart university of arizona anasazi painted pottery in the field museum of natural history 1940 somewhat outdated but a good source of. Left behind was their pottery which can be identified by material form and design.

Museum of northern arizona ceramic series 5 flagstaff. Rohn jr and elizabeth a. Cibola zuni region reserve mogollon highlands. In settlement and subsistence along the lower chaco river edited by c.

Function and technology of ansazi ceramics from black mesa arizona monograph for sixteen years peabody coal company supported an important regional archaeological program in northeasten arizona to mitigate the impact of large surface mines. The anasazi abandoned major cities like mesa verde and chaco near the end of the 13th century migrating to the rio grande valley. Procedures sampling and general analyses marion f. Functional analysis has been the most rapidly expanding segment of the field particularly experimental ethnoarchaeological and residue analysis approaches.

1991 identifying pukis or potters turntables at anasazi sites. Miles seely technological analysis. Center for archaeological investigations occasional paper 15. 1995 reassessment of the dating of the pojoaque grant site la 835.

1300 leaving a heavy accumulation of house remains and debris. The anasazi ancient ones thought to be ancestors of the modern pueblo indians inhabited the four corners country of southern utah southwestern colorado northwestern new mexico and northern arizona from about a d. Morris 1974 prehistoric ceramics of the mesa verde region. In this first article attention focuses on studies of function and use stylistic analyses and pottery origins.

1977 typology and technology of anasazi ceramics. Xiv 253 pages. The recent literature on ceramic analysis which has grown dramatically over the last 8 years is reviewed in two articles.