The Utility of Communities of Practice in a Spanish Colonial Context

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Archaeologists studying colonial contexts know that these periods are often marked by rapid social and demographic change. In the southeastern United States, these changes led to the coalescence of formerly independent peoples. Interestingly, there are also rapid changes in potting practices. While these processes of coalescence and changing ceramics have been the subject of much study, archaeologists still don’t fully understand how they played out. I argue that ceramic studies utilizing a communities of practice framework could be a valuable tool for understanding many aspects of coalescence that are not well-documented.

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