Evaluation of trade and interaction between Chaco Canyon and Chaco outlier sites in the American Southwest by investigating trachybasalt temper in pottery sherds

Arakawa, Fumiyasu; Gonzales, David A.; McMillan, Nancy J.; Murphy, Molly

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.01.035

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“…This apparent shift to equal numbers of male and female potters as the Chaco phenomenon became more elaborate is suggestive. During this later period, Chaco Canyon had become a major consumer of pottery, with many surrounding areas likely overproducing vessels to be transported to the central canyon (46,47). It may be that this growing demand necessitated, almost literally, "all hands on deck" to produce enough corrugated pots to meet both local community needs and the external demand.…”

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Reconstructing sexual divisions of labor from fingerprints on Ancestral Puebloan pottery

Kantner

McKinney

Pierson

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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An understanding of the division of labor in different societies, and especially how it evolved in the human species, is fundamental to most analyses of social, political, and economic systems. The ability to reconstruct how labor was organized, however, especially in ancient societies that left behind few material remains, is challenged by the paucity of direct evidence demonstrating who was involved in production. This is particularly true for identifying divisions of labor along lines of age, sex, and gender, for which archaeological interpretations mostly rely upon inferences derived from modern examples with uncertain applicability to ancient societies. Drawing upon biometric studies of human fingerprints showing statistically distinct ridge breadth measurements for juveniles, males, and females, this study reports a method for collecting fingerprint impressions left on ancient material culture and using them to distinguish the sex of the artifacts’ producers. The method is applied to a sample of 985 ceramic sherds from a 1,000-y-old Ancestral Puebloan community in the US Southwest, a period characterized by the rapid emergence of a highly influential religious and political center at Chaco Canyon. The fingerprint evidence demonstrates that both males and females were significantly involved in pottery production and further suggests that the contributions of each sex varied over time and even among different social groups in the same community. The results indicate that despite long-standing assumptions that pottery production in Ancient Puebloan societies was primarily a female activity, labor was not strictly divided and instead was likely quite dynamic.

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“…Studies suggest that this production method provided a number of advantages, including easier handling, better temperature control, and increased use-life (43)(44)(45). Thousands of these pots were imported into Chaco Canyon from communities dozens of miles away that produced them in large quantities (46,47).…”

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Reconstructing sexual divisions of labor from fingerprints on Ancestral Puebloan pottery

Kantner

McKinney

Pierson

et al. 2019

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…For instance, exotic goods like macaws were imported over vast distances (Plog & Heitman 2010, while other products like ceramics, or resources like timber, were circulated regionally (e.g., English et al 2001;Guiterman, Swetnam & Dean 2016;King 2003;Mills, Carpenter & Grimm1997;Shepard 1939;Shepard in Judd 1954: 236-238). In some cases even, temper materials were specifically gathered from the most efficiently accessible locations (Arakawa et al 2016). Given these lines of evidence, we contend that economic models should be revisited, specifically in terms of the importation of timbers to Chaco Canyon.…”

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A Least Cost Analysis: Correlative Modeling of the Chaco Regional Road System

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Heitman

Richards-Rissetto

2019

Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology

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Introduction People move to maintain relationships, to flee natural disasters, escape violence, fulfill spiritual callings, access resources, and for a host of other reasons. At times, human movement patterns reflect culturally defined values. Landscape archaeologists have embraced this line of inquiry, attempting to track movement patterns in ancestral contexts as a means of illuminating social dynamics. To facilitate movement-oriented analyses, archaeologists are capitalizing on new technologies and developing new methodologies; in particular, least cost analysis (LCA) has become a predominant approach for quantifying, predicting, and modeling pathways of human movement in the past. LCA has been used to analyze a range of topics, including interaction spheres, accessibility, and daily movement (

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Evaluation of trade and interaction between Chaco Canyon and Chaco outlier sites in the American Southwest by investigating trachybasalt temper in pottery sherds

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Reconstructing sexual divisions of labor from fingerprints on Ancestral Puebloan pottery

Reconstructing sexual divisions of labor from fingerprints on Ancestral Puebloan pottery

A Least Cost Analysis: Correlative Modeling of the Chaco Regional Road System

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