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A B S T R A C T S
SECCIÓN I
ARTÍCULOS ORIGINALES
LAS
CERÁMICAS MÁS TEMPRANAS EN MÉXICO
Ángel
García Cook
Para tratar el tema,
el autor ha escogido tres lugares de la zona occidental: Capacha
en Colima, Puerto Marqués en Guerrero y Barra en Chiapas;
tres en la parte de oriente: Altamirano en el norte de Veracruz,
Santa Luisa en Tecolutla, Veracruz Central y San Lorenzo en el Sur
de Veracruz y tres del mediplano y altiplano central: El Valle de
Oaxaca, Purrón en el Valle de Tehuacán, Puebla y Chalcatzingo
en Morelos, para ejemplificar las características de los
diversos tipos cerámicos presentes en esos lugares y correspondientes
a las fases tempranas de su desarrollo como grupos sedentarios.
Se comenta, asimismo, sobre dos regiones -Stalling Island y Savannah
River en Georgia, y Orange en Florida- en el sureste del actual
Estados Unidos de América, USA y, además, sobre las
cerámicas tempranas en Centroamérica -básicamente
Panamá-, y por supuesto, algunos comentarios sobre las cerámicas
más antiguas en Ecuador y Colombia. Se mencionan para cada
lugar las relaciones e influencias.
THE
FIRST OCCURRENCES AND EARLY DISTRIBUTION OF POTTERY IN THE NORTH
AMERICAN SOUTHWEST
James
M. Heidke
Judith A. Habicht-Mauche
Current evidence suggests
that we can no longer think of the origin and spread of pottery
technology in the North American Southwest as a unitary and uniform
phenomenon. Rather, at least three distinct episodes of innovation
and development can now be identified. The first pertains to the
initial development of ceramic technology by inhabitants of the
southern Southwest, and appears related to ritual behaviors. The
second is characterized by the rapid adoption of a more sophisticated
domestic, utilitarian ceramic container technology throughout the
area. The third episode encompasses the time when pottery containers
first became essential to a wide range of domestic activities and
their potential for symbolic expression and information exchange
began.
DISTRIBUTION,
TIMING, AND TECHNOLOGY OF EARLY POTTERY IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED
STATES
Kenneth
E. Sassaman
The southeastern United
States is home to the oldest pottery in North America. Varieties
of fiber-tempered ceramics and some early sand-tempered wares are
found across much of the region. Earliest among them are the Stallings
series of the Savannah River area and Orange pottery of northeast
Florida, both coming from coastal and freshwater shell-midden sites
of hunter-gatherer communities. Dating from about 4500 B.P., Stallings
pottery is well documented through fine-grained chronology and technofunctional
data. Its history of slow, uneven diffusion embodies changes in
vessel form and ceramic paste that signal the transition from indirect-heat
to direct-heat moist cooking. Comparable technofunctional data are
lacking for other pottery series in the region, although recent
research on their distribution and timing is revealing variation
heretofore hidden by misapplication of typology and chronology.
A review of current knowledge on the distribution, timing, and technology
of the Southeast's oldest pottery underscores the need for theory
which considers social variation and social action integral to processes
of innovation diffusion.
EARLY
POTTERY IN MIDWESTERN NORTH AMERICA
Mark
W. Mehrer
This is an overview of
early pottery in the Midwest region of North America. The very earliest
ceramics are rare finds from Late Archaic period (4000-6000 B.C.)
contexts at the western margins of the region. However, pottery
was not in widespread use throughout the region until roughly a
millennium later during the Early Woodland period (600-0 B.C.).
The Late Archaic ceramics seem to have been unrelated to the later
Early Woodland wares. Moreover, Early Woodland wares seem to represent
influences from several easterly and southerly directions.
SECCIÓN II
OTRAS CONTRIBUCIONES
GRAVES
AND DEPOSITIONAL PROCESSES - AN EXAMPLE FROM THE SANTA MARÍA
VALLEY NORTHWESTERN ARGENTINA
Nils
Johansson
Graves have traditionally
been used for a multifold of purposes, among others for creating
typological chains or for studying social differentiation in prehistoric
society. However, in order to evaluate aspects like those mentioned
one has to look at the different depositional processes that has
the grave as its final result.The concepts achieved from my discussion
are later applied to the Amancay cemetery from the site of El Pichao,
Santa María Valley, Northwestern Argentina. The cemetery
was excavated during three field campaigns 1989-1991, as part of
a joint venture between Göteborg University and the archaeological
institute at the National University in San Miguel de Tucumán,
Argentina.
SECCIÓN IV
INFORMACIÓN E INVITACIONES
TERTULIAS
SOBRE EL MUNDO CHIBCHA
Objetivos
Se trata de un grupo
de estudio informal conformado con el fin de estimular y divulgar
investigaciones interdisciplinarias en curso que tratan diversos
temas relativos a grupos pertenecientes a la familia lingüística
chibcha.
En Colombia, existe
en este momento un buen número de profesionales investigando
estos temas desde la arqueología, la etnohistoria, la etnología,
la lingüística, la etnozoología, etc. Muchas
de estas investigaciones se encuentran inéditas, y por ello
creemos que la conformación de este grupo de estudio se constituirá
en un canal para la divulgación de avances de investigación,
el intercambio de información y estimulantes discusiones.
Desde el comienzo, enviaremos
nuestros comunicados a colegas de otros países que investigan
temas relacionados, con el fin de iniciar una aproximación
que, en el futuro, podría redundar en un estimulante intercambio.
En el curso de las reuniones, se pretende cubrir los siguientes
aspectos:
- Exposición
breve y discusión sobre investigaciones en curso de las
personas integrantes del grupo.
- Discusiones sobre trabajos enviados por otros investigadores
para este fin.
- Envío de los resultados de las reuniones a los participantes
e interesados.
- Publicación periódica de avances de investigación,
en publicaciones de amplia distribución.
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