Chemical Characterization of Ceramic Pastes in Archaeology

Edited by H. Neff (1992) Monographs in World Archaeology, No. 7. Prehistory Press: Madison

Ceramic Source Determination by Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis in the American Southwest

P. R. Fish, S. K. Fish, S. Whittlesey, H. Neff, M. D. Glascock, and J. M. Elam

Abstract

Tanque Verde Red-on-Brown is the most common decorated ceramic type throughout southern Arizona during the Hohokam Classic Period (A.D. 1150 to 1400). Neutron activation analyses of a sample of 366 sherds permitted an examination of production and exchange within a single "community" or territorial unit of interrelated sites in the northern Tucson Basin (145 km²), the Tucson Basin as a whole (7,800 km²), and the larger Hohokam cultural tradition (100,000 km²). Results suggest multiple locations of manufacture for Tanque Verde Red-on-Brown pottery at each of these three geographic scales, as well as insights into direction, magnitude, and chronology of exchange.

Number of samples in dataset: 658

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