Compositional analysis, domestic economy, ceramic production and exchange (Other Keyword)
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Identifying Patterns of Ceramic Compositional Variability from Residential Contexts in Three Late Classic Maya Polities (2018)
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Archaeologists have had a long-standing interest in domestic economy because households are often considered to be the primary social unit of production, consumption, and reproduction in most agrarian societies and occupy an important place in the study of ancient state economies. A relatively novel avenue for exploring broader patterns in the domestic economies of ancient Maya polities involves compositional analysis of ceramics. Variability in the compositional makeup of the ceramics can show...