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*REMEMBER*
UNIT 6 QUIZ
Available from Tuesday midnight to Thursday midnight.
YOU MUST COMPLETE 7 OUT OF 9 QUIZZES TO PASS THIS CLASS.
BOOK REVIEWS
Are due IN CLASS on
THURSDAY MAY 20
NO EXCEPTIONS!!
BRING DRAFT TO SECTION THIS WEEK
Unit 6:Economic Archaeology:
Studying Production and Exchange
Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2004
Economic Behavior
Means of producing, distributing, and consuming things that are biologically necessary and/or culturally valued.
Oikos = house
Nemein = distribute, manage
Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2004
Production
A. Forces of Production:
1) Means of Production
--technology, resources
2) Organization of Production
--division of labor
B. Social Relations of Production:
social identity, status, and power
Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2004
Exchange The distribution and consumption of things
Evans-Pritchard: “the chain along which social relationships run”
Marcel Mauss: The Gift--reciprocity creates relationships of obligation and dependency
Commodities: “objects of value”
Value: determined by “desire and demand”
Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2004
Production and Exchange
Links material things to social world.
Imbues objects with symbolic and social potential (agency).
Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2004
Archaeological Case Studies:
Pottery Manufacture and Exchange in the Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico,
AD.1300-1700
The Arroyo Hondo Pottery Study (1988-1990)The Rio Grande Glaze Ware Project (1995-present)
Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2004
Arroyo Hondo Pottery Study
One of the earliest nucleated towns in NRG: Component 1 (A.D. 1300-1350) Component 2 (A.D. 1370-1425)
Decorated pottery dominated by various and diverse types of black-on-white bowls throughout occupation
Analytical Techniques: attribute analysis; petrography; XRF
Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2004
Black-on-White Pottery
Local diversity of styles and resourcesElaborate, labor intensive designsSmall to medium bowlsNo evidence of workshopsEach local type not widely distributed
Reflect emergence of new communities and localized ethnolinguistic identities
Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2004
Rio Grande Glaze Ware Project
Four Sites: San Marcos, Cieneguilla, Pueblo Blanco, and Kuapa
Associated with two archaeological districts (Galisteo and Santo Domingo) that are identified historically and ethnographically w/ two different ethnolinguistic groups (Tano and Keres)
Analytical Techniques: attribute analysis; petrography; lead isotope analysis
Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2004
Glaze Painted Pottery
More restricted use of resources (control?) More standardized forms and sizesSimplicity/efficiency of designsSome community specializationLarge bowls (feasting?)Iconographic imagery (regional cult)
Reflects emergence of inter-community alliances and exchange networks
Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2004
Glaze Ware Production, Exchange and Use in its Broader Social Context
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