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Design Analysis of Painted Pottery

By Patty Jo Watson.

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History Archaeology
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Исторические дисциплины;Археология;Методы археолог

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American Antiquity, Vol. 42, No. 3, Essays on Archaeological Problems (Jul., 1977),381-393.The study of pottery has been at the very heart of archaeological research for more than a century. Patty Jo Watson takes up the problem of design analysis of painted pottery as her contribution to the volume. She reviews painted pottery analyses in both the Near East and the Southwestern United States and makes a strong plea for an approach which combines recovery and analysis of archaeological data with ethnographic and sociological observations of living societies. It is clear that this approach offers considerable promise in achieving an understanding of ceramic design and the transmission of design elements in prehistoric pottery. Such pleas have been made before, but this paper builds on Spaulding's (1968) statement that "the past can only be understood through the present." The paper critiques work done in response to this statement, and offers some suggestions for future studies.

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