PREHISPANIC JEDDITO YELLOW WARE: AN OVERVIEW

Abstract

This paper summarizes the state of knowledge of Jeddito Yellow Ware bowls for several attributes related to typology including external design elements (glyphs), village of manufacture using Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA), chronology through seriation using several time-dependent attributes, and provenance.

Esta ponencia presenta una síntesis del conocimiento en torno a las vasijas de cerámica ‘Jeddito Amarillo,’ o sea JYW por sus siglas en inglés, incluyendo aquellos atributos relacionados a su tipología y diseños exteriores (EDE's por sus siglas en inglés), ubicación de su manufactura a través de análisis por activación de neutrones (NAA), cronología a través de seriaciones basadas en atributos relativos a ciertas temporalidades, así como procedencia.

Acknowledgments

The papers in this volume are a result of a seminar on Jeddito Yellow Ware hosted by the Amerind Foundation by invitation from Director, John Ware, which was held September 19–20, 2008 in Dragoon. I want to thank Suzanne Eckert and Linda Cordell for reviewing and commenting on earlier drafts of the papers as part of our initial submission of papers to Kiva. A special thanks to Steven LeBlanc, who provided me with access to the Peabody Museum at Harvard's Awat'ovi Expedition ceramics and archives and facilitated my getting visiting scholar status at Harvard during my 2006–7 sabbatical. Thanks also to my wife, Margot Ellis, for reading and commenting on earlier drafts of my papers. I am beholden to several generations of graduate and undergraduate students, including Kelley Hays-Gilpin, Patrick Lyons, and Vincent LaMotta, who have worked on various aspects of the ceramics from excavations at Chevelon and Homol'ovi I, II, III, and IV between 1985 and 2009 that form the bases of conclusions I make. Finally, thanks to untold generations of Hopi potters who, in my opinion, made the most beautiful pottery in the Southwest, which archaeologists have termed Jeddito Yellow Ware.