出版社：South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology
摘要：Raw material selection in the production of pottery was examined in the context of site location, developing settlement hierarchies, and evolving institutional inequality in pre-Columbian Puerto Rico. Distinctive sherds ranging in age from 200 BC to AD 1200 were selected from various contexts in the Maisabel site. This time frame spans occupations of the earliest single-village egalitarian communities (Hacienda Grande and Cuevas complexes) through the devel-opment of multi-village territorial polities (Monserrate and Santa Elena complexes). Sherds were also selected from Site HU-7, occupied during the transition between two late prehistoric complexes, ca. AD 1000. All sherds were subjected to instrumental neutron activation analysis to characterize compositional variability regionally and through time.
