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Examining the Production and Distribution of Shivwits Ware Pottery in the American Southwest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Karen G. Harry ,
Timothy J. Ferguson ,
James R. Allison ,
Brett T. McLaurin ,
Jeff Ferguson  and
Margaret Lyneis
Karen G. Harry
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154-5003 (karen.harry@unlv.edu)
Timothy J. Ferguson
Affiliation:
University of Missouri Research Reactor Center, Columbia, MO 65211-0001
James R. Allison
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602-4700
Brett T. McLaurin
Affiliation:
Department of Geography and Geosciences, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg, PA 17815-1301
Jeff Ferguson
Affiliation:
University of Missouri Research Reactor Center, Columbia, MO 65211-0001
Margaret Lyneis
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154-5003
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Abstract

Compositional analyses were undertaken to evaluate the hypothesis that Shivwits Ware pottery found in southern Nevada was not produced in that area but, instead, manufactured on the Shivwits Plateau. The evidence supports this hypothesis and indicates that large quantities of Shivwits Ware jars moved through a distribution system linking the upland areas of the western Arizona Strip with the lowlands of southeastern Nevada. This long-distance movement of utilitarian pottery is unusual for precontact North America, in that it occurred in the apparent absence of any centralized distribution mechanisms and between what would have been small, kin-based communities. The nature and the causes for the development of this distribution system are discussed.

Resumen

Resumen

Una composición de análisis se llevo al cabo para evaluar la hipótesis sobre cerámica Shivwits que fue encontrada en el Sur de Nevada, sin embargo su producción se llevo al cabo en la Meseta Shivwits. La evidencia que soporta esta hipótesis, indica que grandes cantidades de jarras Shivwits Ware se movieron a través de un sistema de distribución conectando las zonas altas del Oeste de Arizona con las zonas bajas del Sureste de Nevada. Este movimiento sobre larga distancia de cerámica utilitaria es inusual en la época pre-contacto hispano indígena en Norteamérica, en que ocurre una aparente ausencia de un mecanismo de.

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American Antiquity , Volume 78 , Issue 2 , April 2013 , pp. 385 - 396
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Copyright © 2013 by the Society for American Archaeology.

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