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JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Volume 65, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2021.101387
Keywords
Ceramic analysis; Local networks; Petrography; Greater Antilles; Technological study
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- NWO project Houses for the Living and the Dead [360-62-030]
- NWO-CaribTRAILS project
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The research shows that communities in the Greater Antilles experienced diffusion and changes in ceramic traits, while maintaining conservative and stable traditions in technological steps. Inhabitants of El Cabo were likely involved in a broader regional network of interaction, indicating a shared ceramic tradition with communities from different locations.
This research aims to provide a better understanding of the diffusion of ceramic morphological traits in the Greater Antilles and how communities experienced and integrated new ideas into their manufacturing traditions. The chaine operatoire approach together with the communities of practice theory produce a holistic methodology to unveil social and temporal connections between artifacts, sites and communities. A detailed petrographic and macro-trace analysis of the ceramic manufacturing techniques for the site of El Cabo (Dominican Republic) is provided. Results evidence a complex homogeneous assemblage characterized by one major techno-group but petrographic heterogeneity. The communities, who lived in El Cabo, experienced and integrated changes in vessel shape and style (from Ostionoid to Chicoid features), though maintained conservative and stable traditions in the main technological steps. The petrographic heterogeneity implies that the inhabitants of El Cabo were probably involved in a broader regional network of interaction and were thus not limited to their community for the production of their pottery. Communities from different locations were, as shown by the presence of raw materials from various and distant geological environments, affiliated with a common ancestor represented by the persistence of one shared technical tradition.
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