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Building Z at Kommos is built into one of the Late Minoan shipsheds of Building P; its major phase of use is in the Middle Geometric period. The pottery from the building, including earlier Iron Age material and some from post-use deposition, is fully published here. The totality gives the opportunity of seeing the various contemporary products of the Mesara in fuller detail than is provided by other published sets of material. The purpose of the building is unclear, but it appears to have served a subsidiary function to that of the temple to the north. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The scale of late prehistoric sociopolitical complexity on the Colorado Plateau has been widely debated in the Amen can Southwest. Proponents of an alliance model use Jeddito Yellow Ware, manufactured at Hopi Mesa villages, as one of four index wares. This distributional study of Jeddito Yellow Ware challenges aspects of the alliance model by using a data set that contains over 430 yellow ware sites throughout areas of NE Arizona. This pottery is found on the full range of site types and sizes, rather than simply at the large sites (i.e., >50 rooms) that the alliance model assumes. Within the core production area, Jeddito Yellow Ware is not characterized by restricted access to such pottery: most (89%) yellow ware sites have two rooms or less. We argue that the distribution of Jeddito Yellow Ware in our study area can be understood in the context of inter-community exchange and community- based craft specialization, rather than through elite-controlled ceramic exchange networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The techniques examined in this article for controlling the structure and properties of materials and obtaining intermediate products make it possible to standardize individual features of even low-quality raw materials and increase the quality of the final product. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]