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， 主要是普通陶瓷。 迄今为止，考古学家 我认为这些没有装饰的陶瓷没有什么用处 在约会网站或测试史前社会模型中， organization. 拟议中的研究项目将开始补救 这种情况通过开发一种新的方法，集成陶瓷 分析，将用于系统地测试关系 在使用普通陶瓷的站点之间。 这种方法将联合收割机 类型学属性，如容器形状和装饰， 组成属性，如粘土类型和回火。 这项研究是实验性的。 它将使用陶瓷， 亚利桑那州中部佩森地区的四个地点 A.D. 1000.1200，以测试该方法的适用性。以来 普通软件非常常见，集成方法具有很多 潜力 如果成功，它将适用于其他网站 在西南部，并通过扩展到世界各地。 它 可以为考古学提供新的研究工具。

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.