Behavioral archaeology offers a way of examining the past by highlighting human
engagement with the material culture of the time.'Behavioral Archaeology: Principles and …

We furnish a theoretical framework for explaining that portion of formal variability in artifacts
attributable to the behavior of the artisan. Major causal factors are the artisan's knowledge …

The oldest pottery traditions of the southeastern United States include a series of punctated
wares geographically clustered in three locales of the Savannah River region. Although …

Diversity in archaeology's social theories is desirable, but factioning of the discipline into
antagonistic, paradigm-based camps undermines the scientific enterprise. In order to …

“Brownware” pottery technologies became widely used in the Great Basin around 600 years
ago. A significant increase in the use of small seeds within the subsistence economy took …

Skeuomorphs are copies of prototype artifacts replicated in different physical materials in the
derivative objects. The skeuomorph copy may or may not have a utilitarian function, and the …

An understanding of small-scale population movements is essential to recent research on
migration. Consideration of the technological style (processes of manufacture) of pottery, in …

Ceramic manufacturing techniques and cultural traditions in Nubia from the 8th to the 3rd
millennium BC Page 1 Access Archaeology Archaeopress A ccess Archaeology A Ceramic …

Abstract [eng] The aim of this thesis is to determine the timing of the emergence of early
fortified settlements, the process of their spread in the Eastern Baltic, and the reasons for the …

Nasca polychrome pottery is renowned for the variety of vessel shapes painted in vivid
colors with fantastic creatures from Nasca cosmology. But for all its fame and riveting …