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Tarascan Pottery Production in Michoacan, Mexico: An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective

by Eduardo (Full Professor, Centro de Estudios arqueologicos, El Colegio de Michoacan, Zamora, Mich. Mexico) Williams
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781784916732
  • Binding: Paperback
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  • Publisher: Archaeopress
  • Publisher Imprint: Archaeopress
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  • Pages: 190
  • Original Price: GBP 30.0
  • Language: English
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  • Item Weight: 710 grams
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Pottery is one of humankind's most important inventions. It is thousands of years old and it is fair to say that without it the development of civilization as we know it would not have been possible. Food preparation and storage, religion and ritual, wine-making, trade, art, and architecture, among many other human achievements were all aided by pottery, an artificial material that lent itself to the elaboration of all kinds of objects: vessels, figurines, roof tiles, water pipes, fishnet weights, and tablets inscribed with the earliest forms of writing to name but a few: a veritable litany of human creativity. This book examines a contemporary pottery tradition in Mesoamerica but also looks back to the earliest examples of cultural development in this area. By means of ethnographic analogy and ceramic ecology, this study seeks to shed light on a modern indigenous community and on the theory, method, and practice of ethnoarchaeology, undoubtedly one of the most important aspects of archaeological research in Mexico today.

Williams, Eduardo: - Eduardo Williams received his Ph.D. in archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London (1989). He is the author of the following recent books: Water Folk: Reconstructing an Ancient Aquatic Lifeway in Michoacan, Western Mexico (2014) and The Salt of the Earth: Ethnoarchaeology of Salt Production in Michoacan, Western Mexico (2015), and co-editor of Cultural Dynamics and Production Activities in Ancient Western Mexico (2016). Dr. Williams is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and a recipient of the Alfonso Caso Award (from the Mexican Council for Culture and Arts, and the National Institute of Anthropology and History) for outstanding archaeological research (2003).

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