Exploring Technological Organization through Time: Mimbres Pottery Production

Summary

For some time, archaeologists have sought to characterize the manner in which ceramic technology was organized in the Mimbres area of southwestern New Mexico. Recent syntheses of INAA compositional data allow for a more thorough characterization of the organization parameters associated with ceramic technology in the Mimbres region. Here, we present a more contemporary analysis of the manner in which ceramic technology was organized in the Mimbres area using Costin’s (1991) organization of production parameters coupled with extant compositional data derived from over 3000 samples submitted for chemical characterization by means of INAA. The results of these analyses demonstrate that ceramic technology in the Mimbres area became increasingly organized at the community level through time. We then offer a few suggestions as to why this pattern possibly emerged.

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

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