CERAMIC PRODUCTION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPLEX POLITIES IN LATE PREHISTORIC SOUTHWESTERN IRAN. (VOLUMES I-III) (ARCHAEOMETRY).
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Title
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CERAMIC PRODUCTION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPLEX POLITIES IN LATE PREHISTORIC SOUTHWESTERN IRAN. (VOLUMES I-III) (ARCHAEOMETRY).
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Identifier
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AAI8614657
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identifier
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8614657
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Creator
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BERMAN, JUDITH CAROL.
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Contributor
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Gregory A. Johnson
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Date
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1986
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Anthropology, Archaeology
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Abstract
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The relationship between the development of complex polities and the organization of ceramic production is considered. Anthropologists have hypothesized that ceramic production becomes more specialized and administratively centralized as societies become more complex.;The fifth-fourth millennium B.C. Susiana Plain in southwestern Iran is used as a test case, as archaeological evidence suggests that more complex polities developed during that time period. Neutron activation analysis (NAA), a source characterization technique which yields the chemical composition of ceramics, was applied to over a thousand samples from the Susiana to assess the locus of ceramic production and, by extension, the way in which ceramic production was organized.;The model of production loci is constructed from statistical analyses of similarities and in differences in chemical composition; it is hypothesized that chemically similar ceramics are made in the same area.;The results of the study are methodologically and theoretically important. Sample size had a marked effect on results: as the sample size increased, statistical differences between samples decreased.;The NAA results suggest that bevel rim bowls were produced locally. Other types may have been manufactured in regional or local workshops. The NAA results also suggest that Susa A Necropole ceramics may have been imported from villages into Susa. All Period 12 (Susiana d) black-on-buff ceramics appear to be chemically homogeneous; possible interpretations of this result are explored.;The NAA results, along with relevant ethnohistoric and ethnographic data, are used to suggest directions for further research in Susiana and Greater Mesopotamian archaeology, and for further work on the relationship between the organization of ceramic production and socio-political organization.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Anthropology
