Specialized Ground Stone Production in the Casas Grandes Region of Northern Chihuahua, Mexico
Specialized Ground Stone Production in the Casas Grandes Region of Northern Chihuahua, Mexico
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墨西哥奇瓦瓦州北部卡萨斯格兰德斯地区的专业地面石材生产
DOI：
10.2307/1593800
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发表时间：
2002
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
R. Leonard
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作者：
Todd L. VanPool;R. Leonard
以前的研究已经确定了在墨西哥西北部和美国西南部的卡萨斯格兰德地区的梅迪奥时期（公元1200-1450年）的专业化生产的声望商品。我们使用标准化假设，即，专家生产的产品比不太专业的生产者生产的产品变化更少的前提。我们发现，形态的一个metate类型（1A型metates）是统计上更标准化比其他（1B型metates）。然后，我们比较的Paquimé金属制造的广义生产商从新墨西哥州的明布雷斯山谷地区。我们发现，Mimbres通过槽metates和类型1B metates从Paquimé有相似程度的形态变异，但类型1A Paquimé metates形态上更标准化，表明专家生产它们。我们的结论是，卡萨斯大地区的专业化生产不仅限于名牌商品，而是中世纪经济体系的基本组织原则，反映了一个完善的社会等级和交换系统的存在。
Previous research has identified specialized production of prestige goods during the Medio period (A.D. 1200-1450) in the Casas Grandes region of northwestern Mexico and the American Southwest. We evaluate the organization of production of two functionally equivalent types of trough metates from Paquimé, Chihuahua, Mexico, using the standardization hypothesis, i.e., the premise that products produced by specialists have less variation than those manufactured by less-specialized producers. We find that the morphology of one of the metate types (Type 1A metates) is statistically more standardized than the other (Type 1B metates). We then compare the Paquimé metates to those manufactured by generalized producers from the Mimbres Valley region of New Mexico. We find that Mimbres through-trough metates and the Type 1B metates from Paquimé have a similar degree of morphological variation, but that the Type 1A Paquimé metates are morphologically more standardized, indicating that specialists produced them. We conclude that specialized production in the Casas Grandes region was not limited to prestige goods but was instead a fundamental organizing principle of the Medio period economic system, reflecting the presence of a well-established social hierarchy and exchange system.