Regional pottery making groups in Southern Brazil

2009

In the region of Chapada dos Guimarães, Western Brazil, planters relied heavily on slave labor during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In this article, we examine the locally produced pottery found on slaves contexts in five rural sites of this region. Based in data from probate inventories and the pottery decorative variability we suggest that slaves used decorated pottery to express cultural and social differences.

2012

New research at the Olmec site San Andrés near La Venta indicates three major occupational episodes characterized by six pottery complexes. Fragmentary evidence of a very early fourth oc- cupational episode at this locality is also present. The earliest of the major episodes is represented by tecomate rims demonstrating modal ties with the Ojochi of San Lorenzo. A primary, Middle Preclassic occupation following the development of the Rio Barí is associated with three pottery complexes demonstrating substantial similarities to Puente and Franco phase pottery from else- where on the Tabasco Coastal Plain. Preliminary data from a first season of deep excavations also allow for the division of the regional Puente ceramic complex into an Early and Late facet. Early Horizon pottery is conspicuously absent, although a handful of fragments reflects an low density regional occupation around La Venta during the close of the Second Millenium B.C. This occured just prior to the development of the Barí distributary system at around 1000 B.C., which fundamen- tally altered the productive landscape and allowed for the growth of La Venta as a dynamic regional center. A low intensity Classic and Postclassic Ahualulcos reoccupation is reconfirmed.

Global Journal of Archaeology & Anthropology

The ceramic bowls production of the Brazilian Kadiweu culture (Rio Nabileque, Mato Grosso do Sul), currently belonging to Museo delle Civiltà (MUCIV) – Museo Nazionale Preistorico ed Etnografico “Luigi Pigorini” in Rome, were studied for the first time by a multi-analytical investigation at Istituto Centrale per il Restauro (ICR, Rome). Optical microscopy on thin section (OM) and X-ray Powder Diffraction (XRPD) were used to characterize two Kadiweu bowls (raw materials, firing and production process). UV observation and micro-Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (μ-FTIR) were used to characterize either original or former restoration products. Finally, X-ray images were taken to study the modelling technique. This minimally invasive approach showed that raw materials and technology are compatible with local production. The use of grog was documented for the paste, which was then fired at moderately high temperatures. This study also led to revise some ethnographic data on decorat...

Ceramic Production in the American …, 1995

... can be traced in the changing patterns of ceramic manufacture and trade, as recorded at large Classic period sites, such as Arroyo Hondo. ... American Antiquity 47 (3): 504-525-Cordell, Linda S., Amy C. Earls, and Martha R. Binford 1984 Subsistence Systems in the Mountainous ...

Sherds of the San Pedro pottery complex found in situ in association with new radiocarbon dates at the Real Alto site provide new insights into the origin of pottery technology in South America and cultural diversity during the Early Formative period on the coast of Ecuador.

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2022

Cobatillas la Vieja is one of the main settlements for understanding the beginning of the Late Bronze Age (14th-13th centuries cal. BC) in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula. After the macroscopic study of their ceramic assemblage, 30 representative samples were analysed by thin-section petrography, X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and binocular microscopy to address issues of provenance and technology. The characterization of four different fabric groups and several individuals reveals a more complex picture of production traditions, pottery exchange and consumption than often assumed for this period of supposed recession and socio-cultural transition. Potters' choices in different production locations are discussed, with an examination on the nature of consumption in two households that suggest both regional and interregional exchange of ceramics in the Late Bronze Age.

Portable system of energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence was used to determine the elemental composition of 68 pottery fragments from ‘Sambaqui do Bacanga’, an archeological site in São Luis, Maranhão, Brazil. This site was occupied from 6600 BP until 900 BP. By determining the element chemical composition of those fragments, it was possible to verify the existence of engobe in 43 pottery fragments. Obtained from two-dimensional graphs and hierarchical cluster analysis performed in fragments of stratigraphies from surface and 113-cm level, and 10 to 20, 132 and 144-cm level, it was possible to group these fragments in five distinct groups, according to their stratigraphies. The results of data grouping (two-dimensional graphics) are in agreement with hierarchical cluster analysis by Ward method.

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2020

Tecnología Sur Sur (TSS) , 2024

El presidente Javier Milei afirma que sacrificando los ingresos de la población en el presente se tendrá un futuro de prosperidad, alojado en un indeterminado porvenir, mientras la pobreza durante su gestión ya llegó a más de la mitad de la gente. Esto no es sólo retórica para imponer intereses empresarios, sino algo con profundo arraigo en los postulados de la teoría económica dominante.