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The White Ware Pottery from Tijeras Pueblo (LA 581): Learning Frameworks and Communities of Practice and Identity

 

Abstract

The Tijeras Pueblo Ceramics Project was designed to explore how the origin and spread of glaze-painted pottery and technology among the Ancestral Eastern Pueblos of the middle Rio Grande was associated with inter-regional macro-scale social processes, such as immigration, population aggregation, and coalescent community formation during the Pueblo IV period in the American Southwest (AD 1275-1425). However, carbon-painted black-on-white ceramics make up over half of the decorated pottery from Tijeras Pueblo and these white wares have their own unique story to tell. In particular, this article argues that the diversity of traits that characterize local carbon-painted black-on-white pottery was directly associated with the context in which novice potters learned to make pots, how technological practices were transmitted and regulated within these communities of practice, and how such practices were related to strategies of coalescence and identity formation around the turn of the fourteenth century.

El Proyecto de Cerámica del Pueblo Tijeras fue diseñado para explorar cómo el origen y la difusión de la cerámica y la tecnología pintadas con esmalte entre los pueblos ancestrales orientales del centro de Río Grande se asoció con procesos sociales interregionales a macroescala, como la inmigración, la agregación de población, y formación de una comunidad coalescente durante el período de Pueblo IV en el suroeste de Estados Unidos (1275-1425 dC). Sin embargo, las cerámicas pintadas al carbono de negro sobre blanco constituyen más de la mitad de la cerámica decorada de Tijeras Pueblo y estas cerámicas blancas tienen su propia historia única que contar. En particular, este artículo sostiene que la diversidad de rasgos que caracterizan a la cerámica blanca pintada al carbón local se asoció directamente con el contexto en el que los alfareros novatos aprendieron a hacer vasijas, cómo se transmitían y regulaban las prácticas tecnológicas dentro de estas comunidades de práctica. y cómo tales prácticas se relacionaron con estrategias de coalescencia y formación de identidad alrededor del cambio del siglo XIV.

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank my team of UCSC graduate and undergraduate research assistants, especially Emma Britton, Samantha Linford, Suzanne Millward, Hunter Faulk-Burgess, and Emily Case; The Friends of Tijeras Pueblo, particularly Kym Campbell, the late Lu Kantz, Kath Linn, and Bruce Walborn; Cynthia Benedict, Cibola National Forest; the staff and volunteers at the Maxwell Museum, especially Dave Phillips; the Cultural Heritage Committee of Isleta Pueblo; and the late Linda Cordell for all her inspiration and support.

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Data Availability Statement

The data analyzed in this article can be accessed at Judith Habicht Mauche (2020) Tijeras Pueblo (LA 581) Decorated Pottery Attribute Data (tDAR id: 458589); doi:10.6067/XCV8458589.

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Funding

Funding for the Tijeras Pueblo Ceramics Project was provided by a research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF 0912154), the UCSC Academic Senate Committee on Research, and the UCSC Division of Social Sciences.

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