Temporal and Spatial Variability in Roosevelt Red Ware Painted Decoration

Summary

Recent research in the southern US Southwest has revealed patterns useful in refining ceramic chronology and investigating communities of practice among 14th and 15th century potters producing Roosevelt Red Ware (Salado polychromes). Analyses of whole and partially reconstructible vessels recovered from stratified contexts in the San Pedro Valley of southeastern Arizona confirm the Roosevelt Red Ware stylistic seriation presented by Patricia Crown in 1994. Combining these results with recent typological revisions leads to refined dating at the regional, settlement cluster, and intrasite level. A related study of geographical variability in the bands of painted decoration on the rims of late Roosevelt Red Ware bowls (Cliff Polychrome and Nine Mile Polychrome) illuminates stylistic trends bearing on models of the spread, the persistence, and the eventual disappearance of the Roosevelt Red Ware tradition. These data, juxtaposed with typological patterns related to geography, in turn, allow us to address the evolution, operation, and decline of social networks born of the Kayenta diaspora.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• New Perspectives on Salado   •
• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)

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