Ceramic Petrographers in the Americas, Production Practices and Social Networks from Multilevel Angles

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Ceramic Petrographers in the Americas, Production Practices and Social Networks from Multilevel Angles" at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The focus of this poster session is on ceramic materials (senso largo), production practices, and social networks approached from a multilevel angle, including ceramic petrography coupled (or not) to other analysis techniques, grounded in conceptual frameworks leading to a better understanding of social interactions, knowledge construction, and the building of communities at large.

Other Keywords
Mesoamerica • North America • South America • Archaeometry & Materials Analysis: Ceramic Petrography

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  • Assessing the Production of Middle Horizon “Pachacamac” Style Pottery from Pachacamac, Peru using Petrography (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only James Davenport.

    This is an abstract from the "Ceramic Petrographers in the Americas, Production Practices and Social Networks from Multilevel Angles" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The “Pachacamac” style has been identified on the central and north coasts of Peru during the Middle Horizon. It is characterized by thin-walled and high-fired ceramics, restricted to serving vessel forms, and decorated with polychrome motifs that share iconography with both other...

  • Characterization of pottery in Characato and Ongamira valleys, southern Pampean Hills, Córdoba, Argentina. Compositional analysis of raw material and sherds using XRD, FRX and INAA (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Roxana Cattaneo.

    This is an abstract from the "Ceramic Petrographers in the Americas, Production Practices and Social Networks from Multilevel Angles" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A combination of mineralogical, geochemical and petrographic analyses is utilized in studying both clay raw material and pottery sherds from archaeological sites located in the Ongamira and Characato valleys (Córdoba, Argentina). By employing XRD, XRF, INAA, and crystallography to...

  • Characterizing Ceramic Paste Recipes at the Spring Warrior Complex (8TA154): Insights into Middle to Late Woodland Ceramic Technology. (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Zhuldyz Datka.

    This is an abstract from the "Ceramic Petrographers in the Americas, Production Practices and Social Networks from Multilevel Angles" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ceramic paste recipes (e.g., variations in inclusion types, sizes, and frequencies) have the ability to show shifts in communities of practice through the choices made at the micro- and macro-scales. By integrating morphological and stylistic data with paste analysis, this research...

  • Characterizing constellations of practice in Pensacola shell-tempered pottery along the northern Gulf Coast (1150-1700 CE) (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrea Torvinen.

    This is an abstract from the "Ceramic Petrographers in the Americas, Production Practices and Social Networks from Multilevel Angles" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ceramic petrography is commonly used to investigate the technological choices embedded within constellations of practice that archaeologists recognize as large-scale collective identities such as the Mississippian cultural tradition. Using several lines of evidence, we aim to more...

  • Pots Are (Still) Not Rocks: Important Considerations when Teaching and Learning Ceramic Petrography (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Meanwell.

    This is an abstract from the "Ceramic Petrographers in the Americas, Production Practices and Social Networks from Multilevel Angles" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. It has been said in the past that “a pot is not a rock” and this statement still rings true. Ceramics are complex, composite materials with incredibly variable combinations of basic production techniques. In recognizing this, archaeology has had a demonstrable shift in ceramic...

  • Production and Provenance of Ceramics from the Site of Campanayuq Rumi (1100-400 B.C.), Ayacucho, Peru (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Isabelle Druc.

    This is an abstract from the "Ceramic Petrographers in the Americas, Production Practices and Social Networks from Multilevel Angles" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Located in the Ayacucho highlands near Huancavelica, the site of Campanayuq Rumi in use during the late Initial Period until the Early Horizon (1100-400 B.C.) displays monumental public architecture and the influence of Chavín de Huantar in its material culture. Its location close to...

  • Technological Techniques and Thin-section Petrography: Ancient Rooftiles from the Co Loa Settlement in northern Red River Valley, Vietnam (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Nicolas.

    This is an abstract from the "Ceramic Petrographers in the Americas, Production Practices and Social Networks from Multilevel Angles" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological investigations at the site of Co Loa in Vietnam's Red River Valley (RRV) region yielded a class of architectural ceramics that emerged near the end of the first millennium BCE (300 BCE-100BCE). Laboratory analysis focused on the use of digital portable microscope on...

  • Using computer vision and digital image processing to define ceramic fabric groups (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Genevieve Woodhead.

    This is an abstract from the "Ceramic Petrographers in the Americas, Production Practices and Social Networks from Multilevel Angles" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Image thresholding algorithms can help extract useful data, such as particle counts, from ceramic petrographic slide images. These metrics can assist archaeologists in identifying ceramic fabric groups, which in turn helps answer broad questions about pottery provenance, exchange...