Dissertation Research: Refining Inferences of Ceramics Circulation

在她的论文导师帕特里夏·L·克朗博士的指导下，玛丽亚·N·塞德诺女士将为她的博士论文研究分析310件完整的和修复的考古船只。这些材料是从亚利桑那州中东部的乔迪斯塔斯·普韦布洛发现的，提供了一个极好的数据库，因为所有这些材料都是在安全的考古背景下从一个被占领不到50年的地点发现的。在亚利桑那大学和史密森学会科学家的协助下，塞德诺将通过对陶瓷进行微量元素分析，并与该地区已知的粘土来源进行比较，来确定粘土来源。通过岩相学和其他分析，她将重建陶器的建造技术，她还将对设计风格进行风格分析。然后，将在不同的数据集之间进行比较。为了重建贸易和其他互动网络，考古学家经常分析考古遗址的陶瓷，试图确定哪些类型的陶瓷是当地制造的，哪些是从其他地方进口的。这类研究往往基于对设计或制造技术的审查，并包括关于这些变量如何与原产地相关的毫无根据的假设。塞德诺将通过分析乔迪斯塔斯·普韦布洛的年代有限、地层安全的样本来评估这些假设。微量元素数据应提供衡量风格和技术变量的基础。这项研究不仅重要，因为它将揭示美国西南部的文化互动，而且还具有更广泛的方法论意义。它将引起广泛的考古学家的兴趣。

Under the supervision of her thesis advisor, Dr. Patricia L. Crown, Ms. Maria N. Zedeno will analyze 310 whole andrestored archaeological vessels for her doctoral dissertation research. These materials, recovered from Chodistaas Pueblo, located in east central Arizona, provide an excellent data base since all were recovered in secure archaeological context from a site which was occupied for less than fifty years. With assistance from scientists at the University of Arizona and the Smithsonian Institution, Ms. Zedeno will determine clay sources through trace element analysis of ceramics and comparison with known clay sources in the region. Through petrographic and other analyses, she will reconstruct the techniques by which the pottery was constructed, and she will also conduct a stylistic analysis of design styles. Comparisons will then be made among different sets of data. To reconstruct trade and other interaction networks, archaeologists often analyze ceramics at archaeological sites in an attempt to determine which types were made locally and which were imported from elsewhere. Such studies are often based on either examination of design or techniques of manufacture and include unfounded assumptions about how these variables relate to point of origin. Ms. Zedeno will evaluate such assumptions through analysis of the chronologically limited, stratigraphically secure Chodistaas Pueblo sample. Trace element data should provide a basis against which stylistic and technological variables can be measured. This research is important not only for what it will reveal about cultural interaction in the U.S. Southwest but also for its broader methodological significance. It will be of interest to a wide range of archaeologists.