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UNIT 6 QUIZ

Available from Tuesday midnight to Thursday midnight.

YOU MUST COMPLETE 7 OUT OF 9 QUIZZES TO PASS THIS CLASS.

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Are due IN CLASS on

THURSDAY MAY 20

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Unit 6:Economic Archaeology:

Studying Production and Exchange

Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2004

Economic Behavior

Means of producing, distributing, and consuming things that are biologically necessary and/or culturally valued.

Oikos = house

Nemein = distribute, manage

Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2004

Production

A. Forces of Production:

1) Means of Production

--technology, resources

2) Organization of Production

--division of labor

B. Social Relations of Production:

social identity, status, and power

Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2004

Exchange The distribution and consumption of things

Evans-Pritchard: “the chain along which social relationships run”

Marcel Mauss: The Gift--reciprocity creates relationships of obligation and dependency

Commodities: “objects of value”

Value: determined by “desire and demand”

Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2004

Production and Exchange

Links material things to social world.

Imbues objects with symbolic and social potential (agency).

Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2004

Archaeological Case Studies:

Pottery Manufacture and Exchange in the Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico,

AD.1300-1700

The Arroyo Hondo Pottery Study (1988-1990)The Rio Grande Glaze Ware Project (1995-present)

Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2004

Arroyo Hondo Pottery Study

One of the earliest nucleated towns in NRG: Component 1 (A.D. 1300-1350) Component 2 (A.D. 1370-1425)

Decorated pottery dominated by various and diverse types of black-on-white bowls throughout occupation

Analytical Techniques: attribute analysis; petrography; XRF

Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2004

Black-on-White Pottery

Local diversity of styles and resourcesElaborate, labor intensive designsSmall to medium bowlsNo evidence of workshopsEach local type not widely distributed

Reflect emergence of new communities and localized ethnolinguistic identities

Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2004

Rio Grande Glaze Ware Project

Four Sites: San Marcos, Cieneguilla, Pueblo Blanco, and Kuapa

Associated with two archaeological districts (Galisteo and Santo Domingo) that are identified historically and ethnographically w/ two different ethnolinguistic groups (Tano and Keres)

Analytical Techniques: attribute analysis; petrography; lead isotope analysis

Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2004

Glaze Painted Pottery

More restricted use of resources (control?) More standardized forms and sizesSimplicity/efficiency of designsSome community specializationLarge bowls (feasting?)Iconographic imagery (regional cult)

Reflects emergence of inter-community alliances and exchange networks

Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2004

Glaze Ware Production, Exchange and Use in its Broader Social Context