Analysis of Rio Grande Glaze Ware Glaze F Pottery from LA 20,000 Using Petrographic and Chemical Composition Techniques

Summary

The pre-Revolt period (1598-1680) in New Mexico was a tumultuous time characterized by the forced making and breaking of ties between Spanish and Indigenous peoples on the Spanish Colonial settlement landscape that resulted in the circulation of cultural and economic resources. For Pueblo communities, colonial incursions significantly affected daily life through the ravages of war and disease, the privations of taxation and religious persecution, and the disruption of traditional economic and resource allocation practices that accompanied the introduction of Spanish goods and new domestic plants and animals. This poster presents combined petrographic and chemical composition data from the analysis of 28 Rio Grande Glaze F ceramic sherds from the site of LA 20,000, a seventeenth-century rural Spanish ranch just outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico. This analysis was carried out to investigate the procurement, production, and movement of late glaze wares and their raw material constituents in order to examine the structure and scope of social networks connecting Spanish and Pueblo households and communities.

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• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 21928