Quinn, PS;
Burton, M;
(2010)
Ceramic Petrography and the Reconstruction of Hunter-Gatherer Craft Technology in Late Prehistoric Southern California.
In: Quinn, PS, (ed.)
Interpreting Silent Artefacts: Petrographic Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics.
(pp. 267-295).
Archaeopress: Oxford, England.
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Abstract
Plain, undecorated ceramic sherds are a common component of archaeological assemblages from villages, temporary camps and resource processing sites across southernmost California (Figure 1). Ceramic technology arrived in this area during the last 1000-1300 years (Laylander, 1992; Campbell, 1999, p. 119; Griset 1996) and perhaps as recently as 1450-1500 AD in western San Diego County, where its appearance is used as a chronological marker for the Late Prehistoric period. Based on archaeological and ethnohistoric evidence, indigenous societies of the San Diego area practiced a mobile hunter-gatherer lifestyle with seasonal movements across environmental zones to exploit a range of plant, animal and geological resources. The manufacture and use of ceramics by these groups thus provides another example, within a growing corpus of recently studied cases (e.g. Sassaman, 1993, 2000; Eerkens et al., 2002; Eerkens, 2003; Skibo and Schiffer, 2008; Thompson et al., 2008) of pottery technology among hunter-gatherers.
Type: | Book chapter |
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Title: | Ceramic Petrography and the Reconstruction of Hunter-Gatherer Craft Technology in Late Prehistoric Southern California |
ISBN: | 190573929X |
ISBN-13: | 9781905739295 |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
Publisher version: | https://www.archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Publ... |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
Keywords: | Science, Ceramic Petrography, Archaeological Ceramics, Material Culture |
UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10079901 |
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