Keywords

Anasazi, Moapa Valley, ceramics, archaeology

Abstract

A large proportion of the culinary ceramics found on 11th century Anasazi sites in the Moapa Valley of Nevada were manufactured more that fifty miles to the east, in northwestern Arizona. This paper uses analyses of ceramics from sites in southeastern Nevada, northwestern Arizona, and southwestern Utah to more precisely define the regional distribution of these ceramics and to assess their degree of standardization in form and technology. Questions relating to the development of community specialization and interaction in egalitarian societies are--examined in light of these analyses.

Original Publication Citation

James R. Allison 1992 Craft Specialization and Exchange among the Virgin Anasazi. Paper presented at the 57th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania