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Hohokam buff ware pottery produced in Arizona has been much studied over the last few decades. However, petrographic analysis has been less frequently applied, due in part to mistaken assumptions regarding the raw materials utilized. The current study reexamined the use of petrography for locating the provenance of buff ware pottery from two sites, La Villa in the Phoenix area and Honey Bee Village in the Tucson area. The petrographic results suggest that production occurred in one primary area along the middle Gila River with minor production in a few other locations. The potters in this area supplied both the Tucson and Phoenix basins. Significantly, it was determined that, after the Early Gila Butte phase, potters switched from crushed schist to sand with natural schist. Such a phenomenon is likely related to increased demand developing from a rapidly evolving sociopolitical system and buff ware pottery becoming a socially valued commodity. This study indicates that petrographic analysis focused on relating sand to known sand composition zones, called petrofacies, can be a key tool for identifying production sources for Hohokam buff ware. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I explore the significance of Jeddito Yellow Ware found outside its production zone, the Hopi Mesas region. Using theory and method for identifying traces of migration, I evaluate case studies in which Jeddito Yellow Ware has played a role in inferences of population movement. Jeddito Yellow Ware is rare at or absent from the sites in southern Arizona that have yielded the most compelling evidence of immigrants from northern Arizona. I conclude by offering possible explanations for this pattern. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper summarizes the state of knowledge of Jeddito Yellow Ware bowls for several attributes related to typology including external design elements (glyphs), village of manufacture using Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA), chronology through seriation using several time-dependent attributes, and provenance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the Hopi yellow ware design system in terms of the plane pattern symmetries that structure the designs. This analysis reveals that the advent of the yellow wares correlates with the aggregation of farming villages into large pueblos in response to the thirteenth-century drought. Coincident with this settlement change is a shift from geometric designs organized by bifold rotation that metaphorically represent the reciprocities central to the corn lifeway to quasi-representational images organized by a number of different symmetries, some new to the region. Oral tradition indicates that Hopi villages are composed of many different groups of people, each with their own rituals and living practices. This paper suggests that the new symmetries and images not only mark the arrival of these in-migrating groups to Hopi villages but also the development of new social institutions to organize these larger communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although ceramic types are applied most commonly to sherds (simply because of their abundance), most typologies have been derived at least in part from patterns of attribute covariation on whole vessels. As a result, one typological concern is the 'non-diagnostic sherd problem,' where only a fraction of the sherds deriving from a whole vessel share all of the attributes of that vessel. This paper assesses the severity of the non-diagnostic sherd problem for Jeddito Yellow Ware polychrome sherds, demonstrating that it may cause up to half of the sherds from some polychrome vessels to be incorrectly typed. Implications for chronology and social dynamics are discussed, and a preliminary correction for the non-diagnostic sherd problem is offered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although ceramic types are applied most commonly to sherds (simply because of their abundance), most typologies have been derived at least in part from patterns of attribute covariation on whole vessels. As a result, one typological concern is the 'non-diagnostic sherd problem,' where only a fraction of the sherds deriving from a whole vessel share all of the attributes of that vessel. This paper assesses the severity of the non-diagnostic sherd problem for Jeddito Yellow Ware polychrome sherds, demonstrating that it may cause up to half of the sherds from some polychrome vessels to be incorrectly typed. Implications for chronology and social dynamics are discussed, and a preliminary correction for the non-diagnostic sherd problem is offered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper summarizes the state of knowledge of Jeddito Yellow Ware bowls for several attributes related to typology including external design elements (glyphs), village of manufacture using Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA), chronology through seriation using several time-dependent attributes, and provenance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I explore the significance of Jeddito Yellow Ware found outside its production zone, the Hopi Mesas region. Using theory and method for identifying traces of migration, I evaluate case studies in which Jeddito Yellow Ware has played a role in inferences of population movement. Jeddito Yellow Ware is rare at or absent from the sites in southern Arizona that have yielded the most compelling evidence of immigrants from northern Arizona. I conclude by offering possible explanations for this pattern. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper summarizes analysis of 236 Jeddito Yellow Ware bowls to better understand the nature of production, exchange, and social roles of Jeddito Yellow Ware bowls within their respective communities. I examine changes in design structure of Hopi yellow ware during 300 years of production prior to the establishment of Spanish missions in 1629. Patterns in production and exchange of Jeddito Yellow Ware have emerged by comparing bowls from Hopi Mesa villages-the presumed production area-to off-mesa villages, especially villages in the Homol'ovi Settlement Cluster. These patterns allow a more nuanced approach to understanding the nature and production level of yellow ware pottery within the producing community and a better understanding of social ties with importing communities that dictated parameters of innovation in bowl decoration. These analyses also indicate yellow ware bowls produced after 1400, (when the majority of regional villages to which yellow ware was exchanged were abandoned), significantly increased in size suggesting primary involvement in commensal activities required to integrate increasingly diverse communities. Along with involvement in commensal activities, changes in yellow ware vessel form were strongly influenced by groups migrating into these communities. In this regard, the analysis reveals two moments of transformation in design structure, related to and explained by periods of substantial social change in Hopi Mesa communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]