What's with Exterior Corrugation on Bowls? Using spatial analysis in GIS to track ceramic deposition.

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Corrugated exterior white wares in the Ancestral Puebloan world are often thought of as a rarity. While these ceramics are not as common as gray ware corrugated or regular black-on-white ceramics, they are an important blending of pottery manufacture. Corrugated whiteware ceramics can also help us begin to understand symbolism and meaning of corrugation itself. By using geographic information systems (GIS), significant patterns of deposition of these ceramics can be identified. In this poster, I will discuss spatial and temporal analysis of corrugated whiteware in the Northern and Middle San Juan Basin during the Pueblo II period (C.E. 900-1150). Through this spatial and temporal analysis and Great House site data from the region, I hypothesize that corrugated whitewares are associated with the Chaco Phenomenon.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 41481.0