The Social Implications of Pottery Technology, Production, and Design from the Basketmaker Communities Project

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Adopting the Pueblo Fettle: The Breadth and Depth of the Basketmaker III Cultural Horizon" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Dillard site (5MT10647)-the earliest community center identified in the Mesa Verde region-may contain among the oldest examples of multi-household pottery production during the Basketmaker III period. A thorough understanding of how pottery was produced, decorated, and obtained at this early large pithouse village, which is centered on a great kiva, provides important insights on village organization and interpersonal relationships. In addition, comparison of pottery from small, contemporaneous habitation sites surrounding the Dillard site allows exploration of the social connections across the community. In this paper, I explore typological, compositional, and decorative variation in pottery from the Dillard site and a number of small Basketmaker III period habitation sites. These lines of evidence allow me to identify spatial patterns in the distribution of pottery and its potential differences among the pithouses at the Dillard site and small habitation sites in order to address the organization of production, as well as the extent of influence the Dillard site may have had on the broader surrounding community through pottery production and exchange.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Adopting the Pueblo Fettle: The Breadth and Depth of the Basketmaker III Cultural Horizon   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 23742