Keywords

anasazi pottery, Red Ware, archaeology

Abstract

Anasazi redware ceramics were widely traded from relatively small areas which specialized in their production. They form one stylistic sequence, but exhibit technological variation due to differences in resource availability. This variation allows most redwares to be traced to specific manufacturing areas, a crucial step in the reconstruction of trade networks and alliances. However, because few archaeologists have worked with the redware production areas, the current typology is misleading and the redwares are often mistyped. As a result, patterns of distribution and the behaviors that created them are obscured.

Original Publication Citation

James R. Allison 1988 Using Anasazi Redwares to Reconstruct Prehistoric Trade Networks. Paper presented at the 53rd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Phoenix, Arizona.