Methodological Issues in the Provenance Investigation of Early Formative Mesoamerican Ceramics

Autor: Jeffrey P. Blomster, Arthur A. Joyce, Richard A. Diehl, Hector Neff, George L. Cowgill, Barbara L. Stark, Michael D. Coe, Ronald L. Bishop, M. James Blackman, Carl P. Lipo, Stephen Houston, Michael D. Glascock, Marcus Winter
Rok vydání: 2006
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Zdroj: Latin American Antiquity. 17:54-76
ISSN: 2325-5080
1045-6635
DOI: 10.2307/25063036
Popis: A recent study of Early Formative Mesoamerican pottery by instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) yielded surprising results that prompted two critiques in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The INAA study indicated that the Olmec center of San Lorenzo was a major exporter of carved-incised and white pottery and that little if any pottery made elsewhere was consumed at San Lorenzo. The critiques purport to "overturn" the INAA study and demonstrate a more balanced exchange of pottery among Early Formative centers. However, the critiques rely on a series of mistaken claims and misunderstandings that are addressed here. New petrographic data on a small sample of Early Formative pottery (Stoltman et al. 2005) are potentially useful, but they do not overturn INAA of nearly 1000 pottery samples and hundreds of raw material samples.
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