Ceramics of the Indigenous Cultures of South America

Studies of Production and Exchange through Compositional Analysis

Michael D. Glascock, Hector Neff, Kevin J. Vaughn, Michael D. Glascock, Hector Neff, Kevin J. Vaughn

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9780826360281
• eBook ISBN: 9780826360298
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: Social Sciences

This cohesive edited volume showcases data collected from more than seven thousand ceramic artifacts including pottery, figurines, clay pipes, and other objects from sites across South America. Covering a time span from 900 BC to AD 1500, the essays by leading archaeologists working in South America illustrate the diversity of ceramic provenance investigations taking place in seven different countries. An introductory chapter provides a background for interpreting compositional data, and a final chapter offers a review of the individual projects. Students, scholars, and researchers in archaeological study on the interactions between the indigenous peoples of South America and studies of their ceramics will find this volume an invaluable reference.

Table of contents

• Book Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Compositional Analysis of Archaeological Ceramics by Michael D. Glascock
• Chapter 2. Pottery Production and Consumption in the Andean-Amazonian Frontier of Southwestern Colombia (2500-500 BP) by Hernando J. Giraldo, Robert J. Speakman, Michael D. Glascock, and Alejandra M. Gudiño
• Chapter 3. Cultural Implications of Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of Ceramics from Palmitopamba, Ecuador by Ronald D. Lippi and Alejandra M. Gudiño
• Chapter 4. Fabric and Culture: Technological Change in Ecuadorian Finger-Painted Pottery by Maria A. Masucci, Hector Neff, Michael D. Glascock, and Robert J. Speakman
• Chapter 5. Crafting Beer Jars for the Inca on the North Coast of Peru by Frances Hayashida
• Chapter 6. Early Horizon Cupisnique Ceramic Production in Pomac, North Coast of Peru: The Role of Archaeometry in Its Holistic Understanding by Izumi Shimada
• Chapter 7. Was Huacas de Sicán a Pilgrimage Center?: Results from Compositional Analysis of Serving Vessels from the Great Plaza by Go Matsumoto
• Chapter 8. Chemical Characterization and Patterns of Ceramic Movement in the Cajamarca Region of Northern Peru by Jason L. Toohey
• Chapter 9. Inca Craft and Ritual Production: Compositional Analysis of Ceramic Pigments from the Temple of the Sun, Pachacamac by James A. Davenport
• Chapter 10. The Analysis of Inca Pottery from the Cuzco Region: Implications for the Provisioning of Ceramics for Machu Picchu and Other Inca Sites by Richard I. Burger, Lucy C. Salazar, and Michael D. Glascock
• Chapter 11. 1,500 Years of Pottery Production in the Nasca Region of Peru: Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis from the Site of La Tiza by Christina A. Conlee, Matthew T. Boulanger, and Michael D. Glascock
• Chapter 12. Wari Ceramic Production in the Heartland and Provinces by Patrick Ryan Williams, Donna Nash, Anita Cook, William Isbell, and Robert J. Speakman
• Chapter 13. Compositional Analysis of Prehispanic Pottery from the Dry Eastern Lowlands of Bolivia by William D. Gilstrap, Emlen Myers, and Hector Neff
• Chapter 14. Pottery from Funerary Mounds along the Arid Atacama Desert Coast, Chile: Chemisty, Circulation, and Exchange between the Inlands and Coast during the Formative Period by Itací Correa Girrulat, et al.
• Chapter 15. A Compositional Characterization of Ceramic Production and Circulation during the Formative Period in Tarapacá, Northern Chile by Mauricio Uribe Rodríguez et al.
• Chapter 16. Testing the Social Aggregation Hypothesis for Llolleo Communities in Central Chile: Style, Pastes, and Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of Ceramic Smoking Pipes and Drinking Pots by Fernanda Falabella et al.
• Chapter 17. Recruited or Annexed Lineages: A Chemical Analysis of Purén and Lumaco Pottery and Clays by Leslie G. Cecil, Tom D. Dillehay, and Michael D. Glascock
• Chapter 18. Prestige Ceramics in Inca Qollasuyu: Production and Distribution of Imperial and Regional Ceramics in the Southern Andes by Verónica I. Williams et al.
• Chapter 19. Social Interaction and Communities of Practice in Formative Period Northwestern Argentina: A Multi-Analytical Study of Ceramics by Marisa Lazzari et al.
• Chapter 20. From the Mountains to the Yungas: Provenience and Distribution of Ceramics in Ambato Societies of the Andes of Argentina in the Fifth Century AD by Martin Giesso et al.
• Chapter 21. Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of Archaeological Pottery from Mendoza, Central Western Argentina by Nuria Sugrañes, María José Ots, Michael D. Glascock, and Gustavo Neme
• Chapter 22. Ancient Exchange Networks in the Central Amazon by Eduardo G. Neves et al.
• Chapter 23. Ceramic Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis in South America by Hector Neff and Kevin J. Vaughn
• References Cited
• List of Contributors
• Index