Fired Fingerprints: A Point of Pines Pueblo Corrugated Ceramic Analysis

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Point of Pines Pueblo is a key site for understanding the Kayenta migration to the Mogollon and how communities adapt or maintain practices while experiencing changing demographics. This study analyzes practices in corrugated jar production before, during, and after the migration in the Point of Pines area. Exposed coils on corrugated jars allows us to identify practices used to create the vessels, which relate to inherited ways of jar production. The methods used by both Kayenta and Mogollon peoples for making corrugated jars, if differing, will have distinct signatures and attributes of ceramic production. This distinction should allow for the analysis of how ceramic production practices are affected by integration or, if these groups did not fully integrate, how ceramics can reflect the maintenance of pre-existing community identities.

For the pilot study, ninety corrugated jars from Point of Pines and nearby sites associated with periods before and after the migration are studied. Thirty vessels from each period are assessed for nineteen attributes establish a baseline of standard practices for corrugated vessel production, and whether those practices changed over time. Changes in the attributes of the vessels will be used as a proxy for the effects of migration and cultural integration.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• SAA 2021: General Sessions

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Abstract Id(s): 33221