TY - BOOK ID - 78648448 TI - Pottery ethnoarchaeology in the Michoacán Sierra PY - 2018 SN - 1607816237 9781607816232 9781607816225 1607816229 PB - Salt Lake City DB - UniCat KW - Excavations (Archaeology) KW - Ethnoarchaeology KW - Indian pottery KW - Indians KW - Pottery, Indian KW - Pottery KW - Ethnic archaeology KW - Ethnicity in archaeology KW - Ethnology in archaeology KW - Archaeology KW - Ethnology KW - Social archaeology KW - Archaeological digs KW - Archaeological excavations KW - Digs (Archaeology) KW - Excavation sites (Archaeology) KW - Ruins KW - Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) KW - Antiquities. KW - Methodology KW - Michoacán de Ocampo (Mexico) KW - Michoacán, Mexico KW - Michoacán (Mexico : State) KW - Michuacán (Mexico) KW - Mechuacan (Mexico) KW - Gobierno del Estado de Michoacán de Ocampo (Mexico) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78648448 AB - "Although most ceramic studies describe vessel production and use, the causes and rates of pottery discard are often neglected in archaeological studies. Michael Shott presents analytical methods for determining pottery use life and demonstrates why use life should not be overlooked. Over a five-year period Shott inventoried the household pottery of about twenty-five homes in five towns in Michoacán, Mexico, recording age and types of use. He also looked at a subsample on a monthly basis over two years to estimate the magnitude of early vessel failure that would go unnoticed in an annual census. His analysis of about 900 vessels clearly shows that context does not explain use life, but vessel size does. Bigger pots last longer. Consulting other ethnoarchaeological sources for comparison and cross-cultural perspectives, Shott shows that his results can be applied to other archaeological data sets for determining numbers of original whole vessels as well as site occupation span."--Provided by publisher. ER -