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This pioneering ethnoarchaeological study is of contemporary ceramic production and consumption in several villages in the Los Tuxtlas region of Mexico. While many archaeologists have identified ceramic production zones in the archaeological record, their identifying criteria have often been vague and impressionistic. The present book's contribution is to use ethnographic research to suggest how archaeologists might consistently recognise ceramic manufacturing. It also places ceramic production in larger cultural contexts and provides details of the ecology, production, distribution, use, discard, and site formation processes. Philip Arnold's critical observations on some of the serious weaknesses in archaeological interpretations of ceramic production will interest Mesoamericanists and all other archaeologists grappling with these, and related, issues.

Ethnoarchaeology --- Indian pottery --- Indians of Mexico --- Pottery craft --- Spatial behavior --- Antiquities --- Mexico --- Tuxtlas Region (Mexico) --- Antiquities. --- Social Sciences --- Archeology --- Behavior, Spatial --- Proxemic behavior --- Space behavior --- Spatially-oriented behavior --- Psychology --- Space and time --- Ethnic archaeology --- Ethnicity in archaeology --- Ethnology in archaeology --- Archaeology --- Ethnology --- Social archaeology --- Indians of North America --- Indigenous peoples --- Meso-America --- Meso-American Indians --- Mesoamerica --- Mesoamerican Indians --- Pre-Columbian Indians --- Precolumbian Indians --- Pottery making (Handicraft) --- Ceramics --- Handicraft --- Indians --- Pottery, Indian --- Pottery --- Methodology --- Los Tuxtlas Region (Mexico)