Pottery, practice, and place: A communities of practice approach to commoner interaction in the Late to Terminal Classic Belize River Valley

Jordan, Jillian M.; Hoggarth, Julie A.; Awe, Jaime J.

doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2020.101148

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“…The production processes used to create metallurgical tools, such as ceramic crucibles and blowpipes, are influenced by a variety of factors, including performance requirements for the intense heat and the previous knowledge and processes of the artisans who make these tools. Communities of practice can develop, where a group of artisans use consistent production techniques that are learned, shared, and promulgated amongst the community [ 28 – 30 ]. Reconstructing the technical choices made by ancient artisans can be difficult, but detailed studies of production implements and debris can help clarify the technological choices and production steps that characterize a specific tradition, and ideally, begin to reconstruct the operational process or chaîne opératoire of production [ 31 – 33 ].…”

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Blowpipes and their metalworking applications: New evidence from Mayapán, Yucatán, Mexico

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This study presents evidence of two tuyères, or blowpipe tips, used in metalworking at the Postclassic period city of Mayapá n. Blowpipe technology has long been hypothesized to be the production technique for introducing oxygen to furnaces during the metal casting process on the basis of ethnohistorical depictions of the process in ancient Mesoamerica. To our knowledge, the tuyères recovered at Mayapá n are the first archaeologically documented tuyères for pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica. The dimensions, internal perforation, vitrification, and presence of copper prills within the ceramic fabric, suggest that they were used in pyrotechnological production, likely metalworking, and is consistent with previous evidence for small-scale metalworking at Mayapá n. Blowpipe use in metallurgical production is a logical extension of a much longer tradition of blowgun use in hunting, which was likely already present in Mesoamerica by the time metal was introduced to West Mexico from South America. Furthermore, the dimensions of the Mayapá n tuyères are consistent with the internal diameter of ethnohistorically-documented blowguns from Jacaltenango in the southwest Maya region. We conducted replication experiments that suggest that when combined with wooden blowpipes, the Mayapá n tuyères would have been ideal for small-scale, furnacebased metallurgy, of the type identified at Mayapá n from Postclassic period contexts.

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Blowpipes and their metalworking applications: New evidence from Mayapán, Yucatán, Mexico

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“…Potters added fresh volcanic ash to a very fine, micritic clay with very few naturally occurring inclusions. They had a clear preference for micritic clay, a completely different choice of clay from those used to produce most contemporaneous Late Classic limestone-tempered vessels in the Belize Valley (Jordan et al 2020). Potters may have used volcanic ash temper because it facilitated smoothing and caused no firing defects (Shepard 1962), required minimal processing (Jones 1986), permitted higher firing compared to limestone temper (Rice 2009), or for all these reasons.…”

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Volcanic Ash Tempered Pottery Production in the Late to Terminal Classic Belize Valley, Belize

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Production and consumption of pottery tempered with fresh volcanic ash peaked in the Late to Terminal Classic periods in the Maya lowlands. Differences in the type of volcanic inclusion and vessel form indicate that the pottery was produced in multiple locations by different groups of potters. In this article, we characterize pottery from household contexts at Baking Pot, Belize, using thin-section petrography and neutron activation analysis (NAA) to document mineralogical and chemical variability and determine provenance. The pottery was produced by adding fresh volcanic ash to a micritic clay. The petrographic and chemical data indicate that this paste recipe was produced locally in the Belize Valley. Variation in the paste recipes used is likely due to both production differences and postdepositional alteration. We argue that it is critical to use both petrography and NAA to understand pottery production and provenance in the Maya region.

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“…Even though social learning has been implemented in various domains and has shown its effects to change community behavior, it lacks of empirical evidence to show how it could affect community behaviors. Most previous studies focused on identifying the learning activities (both dialogue-based and practicebased learning) (Dolinska and D'Aquino, 2016;Jordan et al, 2020;Noguera-Méndez et al, 2016;Reed et al, 2014;Tran et al, 2018;Wulandhari et al, 2021). Some other studies discussed only the learning outputs (Bradbury and Middlemiss, 2015;Dolinska and D'Aquino, 2016;Noguera-Méndez et al, 2016;Nykvist, 2014;Vetter, 2020;Wulandhari et al, 2021).…”

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Social learning activities to improve community engagement in waste management program

Sunarti¹,

Zebua²

2023

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Community engagement is crucial to overcome environmental issues, including waste management. Several education-based initiatives have been employed to improve community engagement in waste management programs, but the effects were not satisfied in changing resident behavior for sustainable engagement. Some studies suggested social learning as the solution to improve community engagement through practice-based and dialogue-based learning activities. Nevertheless, it needed more empirical evidence to show the effect. This study aimed to measure the effect of social learning on improving individual waste management behavior and how social learning influence it.METHODS: Using SmartPLS 3.2.9, this study measured the causal relationship of social learning activities to individual affective and behavioral factors. This study involved 504 residents exposed to social learning activities in Kawasan Bebas Sampah/ Zero Waste Area program in Bandung City, Indonesia as the respondents to gather the data using survey method.FINDINGS: The study found that social learning activities have significantly influenced waste management behavior indirectly through Affective factors. The data showed that Dialogue-based learning has no significant effect on Affective factors for all significance levels (β = -0.0862, P > 0.01). Instead, path model analysis indicated the mediating effect of Practice-based learning for Dialogue-based learning and Affective Factors, with the accuracy model at a moderate level (R2 = 42%; Q2 = 0.2258). Meanwhile, supporting facilities influenced both Practice-based learning (β = 0.3116, P < 0.001) and Affective factors (β = 0.4419, P < 0.001) significantly. Further path model analysis demonstrated that without “Affective Factors” being nurtured, learning activities and Facilities would not be able to improve behavior significantly, as all paths directing to Behavioral Domain (Intention and WMB) had an insignificant effect (P value > 0.05).CONCLUSION: This study offered empirical evidence, showing the mechanism of social learning to improve waste management behavior. The Learning activities should combine Dialogue and Practice-based learning to influence waste management behavior significantly, while Affective factors become the direct effect of Learning Activities. Supporting facilities were required to support the learning by providing routine waste collection systems and recycling facilities beneficial for the residents. In order to improve the learning activity effectiveness, the facilitators need to pay more attention to the learning contents to nurture the expected Affective Factors factors.

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Pottery, practice, and place: A communities of practice approach to commoner interaction in the Late to Terminal Classic Belize River Valley

Cited by 11 publications

References 35 publications

Blowpipes and their metalworking applications: New evidence from Mayapán, Yucatán, Mexico

Blowpipes and their metalworking applications: New evidence from Mayapán, Yucatán, Mexico

Volcanic Ash Tempered Pottery Production in the Late to Terminal Classic Belize Valley, Belize

Social learning activities to improve community engagement in waste management program

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