Ceramic Vessels, Site Permanence, and Group Size: A Mississippian Example

1984 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 696-712 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Group Size ◽  
Relative Size ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Vessel Size ◽  
Size And Shape ◽  
Ceramic Vessels ◽  
Georgia Piedmont ◽  
Site Variability

Data derived from analyses of vessel size and shape have been largely overlooked by researchers who seek to understand Mississippian site variability. Vessel form data are analyzed to demonstrate that relative site permanence and the relative size of group that lived at or visited sites are reflected in the size and shape of ceramic vessels. Vessel forms from four archaeological sites are compared, each of which played a different role within a single, late Mississippian society of the Georgia Piedmont.

scholarly journals Ancestral Caddo Ceramic Vessels from East Texas Sites Held by the Gila Pueblo Museum from 1933 to 2017

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Perttula ◽  
Kevin Stingley
Keyword(s):  
Research Laboratory ◽  
East Texas ◽  
Vessel Size ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
State Museum ◽  
Ceramic Vessels ◽  
The University

In the summer of 2017, 21 ancestral Caddo ceramic vessels held since 1933 by the Gila Pueblo Museum and then by the Arizona State Museum were returned to the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin (TARL). These vessels had not been properly or fully studied and documented when the University of Texas exchanged these vessels, so our purpose in documenting these vessels now is primarily concerned with determining the stylistic (i.e., decorative methods, motifs, and decorative elements) and technological (i.e., vessel form, temper, and vessel size) character of the vessels that are in the collection, and assessing their cultural relationships and stylistic associations, along with their likely age. In 1933, little was known about the cultural and temporal associations of ancestral Caddo ceramic vessels from East Texas, but that has changed considerably since that time.

Effect of vessel size and shape on experimental flammability limits of gases

2003 ◽  
Vol 105 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 27-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akifumi Takahashi ◽  
Youkichi Urano ◽  
Kazuaki Tokuhashi ◽  
Shigeo Kondo
Keyword(s):  
Flammability Limits ◽  
Vessel Size ◽  
Size And Shape

scholarly journals Obsidian Artifacts from East Texas Archaeological Sites

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy K. Perttula ◽  
Thomas R. Hester
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Gulf Of California ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
East Texas ◽  
Source Data ◽  
Ceramic Vessels ◽  
Available Information ◽  
Obsidian Source ◽  
Made In

Obsidian artifacts are one of the few material culture remains on East Texas sites that provide direct evidence of distant links between East Texas’s native American peoples and native American communities in the Southwest or the Northwestern Plains. Other such material culture items include marine shells from the Gulf of California, turquoise from New Mexico sources, and sherds from ceramic vessels made in the Puebloan Southwest. Such artifacts, however, are rarely recovered in East Texas archaeological sites. In this article, we summarize the available information on obsidian artifacts from East Texas archaeological sites, much of it gathered from Hester’s Texas Obsidian Project (TOP), including obsidian source data when it is available.

Calculating ceramic vessel volume: an assessment of methods

Antiquity ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 87 (338) ◽  
pp. 1182-1190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Christine Rodriguez ◽  
Christine A. Hastorf
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Plan View ◽  
Circular Form ◽  
Elliptical Shape ◽  
Ceramic Vessel ◽  
Vessel Volume ◽  
Ceramic Vessels

Calculating the volume of ceramic vessels found whole or in fragments on archaeological sites is a key analytical endeavour that can have implications for economic and social activity, including storage and feasting. Established methods for estimating volumes are mostly based on the assumption that vessel shapes approximate to a circular form in plan-view. This new study shows that such an assumption may not be warranted and that methods that assume circularity produce less accurate volumetric estimates than approaches which accept that a less regular elliptical shape may be closer to reality. Statistical analysis allows the accuracy of the different methods to be compared and evaluated.

scholarly journals Ancestral Caddo Ceramic Vessel Sherd Studies: Buddy Calvin Jones Sites in East Texas

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy K. Perttula
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Red River ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
East Texas ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Archaeological Collections ◽  
Ceramic Vessel ◽  
Ceramic Vessels ◽  
The Many

From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, Buddy Calvin Jones of Longview, Texas, identified and investigated archaeological sites across many counties in East Texas. Many of those sites were ancestral Caddo sites occupied from as early as ca. A.D. 850 to the early 1800s, and in his work he obtained surface collections of ceramic sherds from sites as well as large sherd assemblages and ceramic vessels from excavations in habitation deposits and Caddo cemeteries. Jones published only a few papers on his investigations, but his expansive archaeological collections (accompanied by notes and documentation) were donated to the Gregg County Historical Museum in 2003, where they are available for study. Since that time, his various site specific collections of ancestral Caddo material culture remains have begun to be documented, along with more extensive analyses of excavations of Caddo sites in the Little Cypress Creek basin in Upshur County, Texas and along the Red River in Red River County, Texas. This article continues the analyses of the 100+ ancestral Caddo ceramic collections from sites in the Buddy Jones collection by focusing on several of the many previously unanalyzed sherd samples obtained from sites throughout much of East Texas. Jones did not publish analyses of any of these collections in his lifetime.

scholarly journals Modificación de caracteres ligados a la domesticación en Cucurbita maxima. Utilización de la morfometría como herramienta para su identificación

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Analía B. Martínez ◽  
Sergio I. Pérez ◽  
Verónica S. Lema ◽  
Fernando López Anido
Keyword(s):  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
General Trend ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Cucurbita Maxima ◽  
Morphometric Variation ◽  
Size And Shape ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Hybrid Forms

Español. El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en reconocer patrones de variación morfométrica –mediante la aplicación de análisis multivariado para tamaño y formaen semillas de C. maxima que sean diagnósticos para formas domesticadas, silvestres e híbridas actuales, a fin de aplicarlos a la identificación de semillas arqueológicas. Para lograr este objetivo se midieron con calibre digital 1317 semillas de las formas antedichas y de nueve sitios arqueológicos de Argentina y Perú. Se exploró el patrón de variación entre las mismas en tamaño y forma mediante análisis multivariado. Se identificó una tendencia general hacia la disminución de la variabilidad en forma y tamaño a lo largo del tiempo, con una primera etapa donde se mantuvieron ejemplares híbridos, generándose nuevas formas y una segunda donde se mantuvieron los rasgos de momentos previos y el aumento del tamaño de las semillas.English. The aim of this paper is to recognize patterns of morphometric variation –through the application of multivariate analysis for size and shape- in C. maxima seeds, which are diagnostic for current domesticated, wild and hybrid forms, in order to be applied to the identification of archaeological seeds. In order to achieve this aim, 1317 seeds were measured with digital caliber corresponding to the former forms and to nine archaeological sites from Argentina and Peru; patterns of variation among them were explored in both size and shape, employing multivariate analysis. A general trend in time towards diminution of variability in size and shape was identified with a first stage in which hybrid forms were maintained and new shapes were generated and a second stage in which features of previous moments were maintained and the size of the seeds were increased.

scholarly journals Análisis de formas sobre vasijas enteras de museos del sur de Mendoza / FORM ANALYSIS OF CERAMIC VESSELS FROM MUSEUMS OF SOUTHERN MENDOZA

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuria Sugrañes
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Variability ◽  
Data File ◽  
Ceramic Technology ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Form Analysis ◽  
Form Function ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Ceramic Vessels ◽  
Archaeological Ceramic

<p>Se realizó un relevamiento de vasijas enteras e incompletas pertenecientes a colecciones de tres museos del sur de Mendoza. El objetivo principal fue conocer las formas de vasijas cerámicas presentes en la región y generar, a partir de los resultados, una muestra comparativa para el análisis de fragmentos cerámicos arqueológicos. Este trabajo surge a partir de la alta fragmentación de la cerámica en la región y, la escasa presencia de vasijas enteras en los sitios arqueológicos. Se confeccionaron fichas con variables que contemplen aspectos tecnológicos y que se vinculan con la movilidad de las poblaciones humanas. Además, se hizo hincapié en la relación forma - función de las vasijas, como una forma de evaluar el rol de la tecnología cerámica a partir de las tendencias observadas en el sur de Mendoza. Los resultados del análisis cerámico muestran para la región una gran variabilidad morfológica, lo cual parece estar relacionado a las diversas posibilidades de uso y, a las expectativas arqueológicas esperables para poblaciones cazadoras recolectoras móviles.</p><p>Palabras Clave: Museos; Vasijas Enteras; Forma; Función; Sur de Mendoza.</p><p>Abstract<br />A study of vessel form of three museums from Southern Mendoza was performed. Its main objective was to know the kind of forms that are present in the region, and to provide, from the results obtained, a comparative sample to analyze archaeological ceramic sherds. This work arises from high ceramic fragmentation and absence of entire vessels in archaeological sites. Accordingly, a data file was developed on the basis of variables that consider technological aspects and that are related to mobility of human populations. Form-function relation was also conducted in order to evaluate the role played by ceramic technology from trends noticed in Southern Mendoza. Results show high morphological variability in the region probably linked to the possibilities of use and to the archaeological expectations expected from mobile hunter-gatherer populations.</p><p>Keywords: Museums; Ceramic Vessels; Form; Function; Southern Mendoza.</p>

scholarly journals Documentation of Ancestral Caddo Ceramic Vessels in the Smith County Historical Museum Collections

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Perttula ◽  
Nelson ◽  
Robert Selden ◽  
Walters
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Personal Communication ◽  
The Other ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
East Texas ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Ceramic Vessels ◽  
Neches River ◽  
Smith County

This report puts on record the collection of 34 ancestral Caddo vessels held by the Smith County Historical Museum (SCHM) in Tyler, Texas. Most of the collection was donated to the SCHM in 2013, but several were also donated in 1985 (Carol Kehl, April 2014 personal communication). The vessels in this collection have been documented following the methods employed by the Friends of Northeast Texas Archaeology and Archeological & Environmental Consultants, LLC on a number of ancestral Caddo ceramic collections from East Texas archaeological sites (e.g., Perttula 2011, 2013, 2014; Perttula and Nelson 2013; Perttula and Thacker 2014; Perttula et al. 2007, 2009a, 2009b, 2010a, 2010b, 2010c, 2012a, 2012b, 2012c, 2013, 2014). The provenance of the Caddo vessels includes a number of vessels from sites at Lake O’ the Pines in the Big Cypress Creek basin, while the other 10 vessels are believed to have been collected from sites in the upper Neches River basin in Smith County, Texas. We discuss these conclusions in the “Summary and Conclusions” section of the report, relying on the decorative styles and types of the vessels (see Suhm and Jelks 1962) to sort them into the material culture remains known to be associated with different ancestral Caddo cultural groups in East Texas.

Size, shape, and systematics of the Silurian trilobite Aulacopleura koninckii

2014 ◽  
Vol 88 (6) ◽  
pp. 1120-1138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul S. Hong ◽  
Nigel C. Hughes ◽  
H. David Sheets
Keyword(s):  
Relative Size ◽  
Trunk Region ◽  
Size And Shape ◽  
Systematic Description ◽  
Trunk Segment ◽  
Marked Variability ◽  
Character Variation ◽  
Complex Patterns ◽  
Shape And Size ◽  
Trunk Segments

A new dataset of the highest quality specimens of fully articulated, juvenile and mature exoskeletons of the Czech middle Silurian trilobite Aulacopleura koninckii offers improved resolution of original morphology by all measures considered. The degree of variation in both size and shape among later meraspid instars was constant, and suggesting targeted growth in both attributes. Size-related changes in the shape of the dorsal exoskeleton and of the segment-invariant cephalon were detected in the meraspid stage, but in the holaspid phase marked allometry was detected only in the trunk region, with the pygidium showing notable expansion in relative size. Meraspid cranidial allometry was subtle, with significant changes in instar form detectable only after several molts. This trilobite developed gradually throughout meraspid and holaspid ontogeny, with the synchronous cessation of trunk segment appearance and release at the onset of the holaspid phase. Precise development of shape and size occurs in the context of marked variability in the number of trunk segments at maturity, illustrating complex patterns of character variation within a species. A new systematic description establishes the synonymy of several subspecies with A. koninckii.

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