Dissertation Research: Integrated Ceramic Analysis: An Investigation of Intersite Relationships in Central Arizona

史前美国西南部的广大地区以复杂的乡村社会为特征，这些社会主要生产素器陶瓷。迄今为止，考古学家认为这些没有装饰的陶瓷在确定日期或测试史前社会组织模型方面用处不大。拟议的研究项目将开始通过开发一种新的方法来纠正这种情况，即集成陶瓷分析，该方法将用于系统地测试使用普通陶瓷的站点之间的关系。这种方法将类型学属性（如容器形式和装饰）与组成属性（如粘土的类型和脾气）结合起来。这项研究是实验性的。它将使用亚利桑那州中部佩森地区四个遗址中公元1000年至1200年期间的陶瓷来测试该方法的适用性。由于普通软件非常普遍，因此集成方法具有很大的潜力。如果成功，它将适用于西南地区的其他地点，并扩展到世界各地。它可以为考古学提供一种新的研究工具。

Vast regions of the prehistoric American Southwest were characterized by complex village societies which produced predominantly plainware ceramics. Archaeologists to date have considered these ceramics without decoration to be of little use in dating sites or in testing models of prehistoric social organization. The proposed research project will begin to remedy this situation by developing a new method, Integrated Ceramic Analysis, which will be used to systematically test relationships between sites using plainware ceramics. This method will combine typological atributes such as vessel form and decoration with compositional attributes such as the type of clay and temper. This research is experimental. It will use ceramics from four sites in the Payson area of central Arizona from the period A.D. 1000.1200 to test the applicability of the method. Since plainwares are very common, an integrative approach has much potential. If successful, it will be applicable to other sites in the Southwest and by extension to areas around the world. It could provide archaeology with a new research tool.