Title: Exploring the Keresan Bridge: Acoma Glaze Ware Pottery Production and Exchange in an Inter-Regional Context

Summary

In recent years, patterns of decorated pottery production and exchange, as revealed through mineralogical, chemical and isotopic characterization analyses, have been central to modelling the inter-regional dynamics of late precontact social networks in the American Southwest. However, the role of the Acoma region within these networks remains poorly studied and largely unknown. In particular, questions remain about the significance of the Acoma or Western Keres region as a potential "bridge" facilitating the transfer of people, materials, ideas and practices between the Western and Eastern Pueblos during the 13th and 14th centuries. By presenting results from petrographic, INAA, and lead isotope analyses from a small sample of Acoma glaze ware pottery we begin to fill this critical gap. By comparing these data with comparable INAA and lead isotope data sets from both the Zuni and Albuquerque areas we attempt to develop a clearer picture of social interactions across this east-west corridor. 

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• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)

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Abstract Id(s): 14909