Plain Pots Do Travel: Insights into Mogollon Early Pithouse Period Pottery Circulation

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Local Development and Cross-Cultural Interaction in Pre-Hispanic Southwestern New Mexico and Southeastern Arizona" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Ceramics in the Mogollon region, particularly the Mimbres Mogollon, have been the focus of numerous neutron activation analysis (NAA) studies to discern pottery circulation and social networks throughout the region. However, most of these studies have focused on the painted ceramics with little attention given to the undecorated ceramics. Generally, it is assumed that plain brown ware represents local production and, thus, offers little insight into issues of pottery circulation. Alternatively, this poster explores pottery circulation during the Early Pithouse period (AD 200-700) in the Mogollon region through NAA of plain brown ware and red-slipped ceramics from seven Early Pithouse sites from the Mimbres, Upper Gila, and Reserve areas of the Mogollon region. The results of these analyses suggest that social boundaries were open and fluid within and between the different areas of the Mogollon region during the Early Pithouse period. In addition, this study demonstrates the utility of compositional analyses on plain ceramics for providing insight into social boundaries and the circulation of pottery.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)   •
• Local Development and Cross-Cultural Interaction in Pre-Hispanic Southwestern New Mexico and Southeastern Arizona

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Abstract Id(s): 23925