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Discontinuing Traditions: Using Historically Informed Ethnoarchaeology in the Study of Evros Ceramics
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The authors argue that historically informed ethnoarchaeology provides the key to documenting and understanding the concomitant changes in the social context of pottery production and consumption and the distribution of material culture.Abstract:
Ethnoarchaeological studies of pottery primarily focus on the ethnographic present, often disregarding the role of history in the production of material culture. This paper integrates information from historical sources and ethnographic interviews to better understand stylistic ceramic change. Beginning in the 1920s, undecorated pots largely replaced decorated pottery in the region of Evros, Greece. I argue that historically informed ethnoarchaeology provides the key to documenting and understanding the concomitant changes in the social context of pottery production and consumption and the distribution of material culture.read more
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The Use of Ethnoarchaeology for the Archaeological Study of Ceramic Production
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Current Issues in Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology
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Human agency and the formation of tableware distribution patterns in Hellenistic Greece and Asia Minor
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the influence of human agency on the formation of tableware distribution patterns in Hellenistic Greece and Asia Minor, using the ICRATES database of pottery legacy data.
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Standardization of Ceramic Assemblages: Transmission Mechanisms and Diffusion of Morpho-Functional Traits across Social Boundaries
TL;DR: The results suggest that in a context where ceramic production was previously diversified and economically complementary, the standardization of morpho-functional traits signals that an established «rule» was transgressed and therefore that major socio-economic changes took place.
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Advances in Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology
TL;DR: Ceramic ethnoarchaeology has developed considerably since Kramer's (Kramer, 1985, Annual Review of Anthropology 14: 77-102) review as discussed by the authors, and more sophisticated readings of social theory and analyses that consider multiple variables and levels of variability have led to better understandings of social boundaries.
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Europe and the People Without History
TL;DR: This paper showed that European expansion not only transformed the historical trajectory of non-European societies, but also reconstituted the historical accounts of these societies before European intervention, and asserted that anthropology must pay more attention to history.
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Alternative Archaeologies: Nationalist, Colonialist, Imperialist
TL;DR: The authors examined similarities and differences in the questions that prehistoric archaeologists ask and the answers that they are predisposed to accept as reasonable in different parts of the world and under changing social conditions.
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Materializing Identities: An African Perspective
TL;DR: The authors compare African pottery techniques at a subcontinental level and see whether there are recurrent patterns in their distribution and whether these can be related to specific social boundaries or historical processes of group formation.