Lozada-Mendieta, Natalia;
Oliver, Jose R;
Quinn, Patrick S;
Arroyo-Kalin, Manuel;
(2025)
Identifying the Ceramics of Multiethnic Communities in Lowland South America: Reconstructing Technical Traditions in the Precolonial Middle Orinoco River Region (1000-1500 CE).
Ethnoarchaeology
10.1080/19442890.2025.2458349.
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Abstract
This study investigates technical traditions of pottery production at two archaeological sites, Picure (ca. 310–1480 CE) and Rabo de Cochino (ca. 100 BCE–1440 CE), in the Middle Orinoco River region near the Colombia–Venezuela border. The chaînes opératoires of multiple technical traditions are reconstructed. Petrographic, geochemical, and macrotrace analyses distinguish local from non-local production and identify hybridized technical traditions possibly associated with multiethnic communities. Non-local ceramics are identified based on raw materials and manufacturing techniques, providing evidence of precolonial Indigenous exchange relationships. At the same time, monoethnic and multiethnic communities produced and consumed ethnically distinctive wares as well as hybrid wares. Previous studies have interpreted the co-occurrence of multiple ceramic styles in the regional archaeological sequence as evidence of precolonial exchange or different vessel functions, but rarely as a development of multiethnic co-residence. Therefore, this study advances the knowledge and understanding of Indigenous history in this region, based on this methodology.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Identifying the Ceramics of Multiethnic Communities in Lowland South America: Reconstructing Technical Traditions in the Precolonial Middle Orinoco River Region (1000-1500 CE) |
| DOI: | 10.1080/19442890.2025.2458349 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/19442890.2025.2458349 |
| 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: | Ceramics, Middle Orinoco, technical traditions, multiethnic communities, petrography, geochemistry, macrotrace, Venezuela |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS 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/10206205 |
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