Oral Presentation Session

Reviewed by: Archaeology Division

Of interest to: Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Students

Primary Theme: Materiality

Secondary Theme: Science

(4-1050) Ceramic Ecology XXXII: Imagination, Resistance, Resilience and Adaptation

For 32 years, the Ceramic Ecology session at the American Anthropological Association has provided an open and supportive venue for the presentation of research and insight on all aspects of ceramic production, consumption, trade and their economic, political, social, aesthetic, cosmological, and phenomenological implications. Change in the Anthropological Imagination: Resistance, Resilience and Adaptation is this year’s AAA theme, giving us a unique opportunity to push the boundaries of our research and to ask new questions. How processes of resistance, resilience, and adaptation shape or have shaped pottery making? How have societies dealt with dramatic social and climate changes? What can be learned by examining these forces influencing pottery technologies? How can our studies undertake new forms of local and global cooperation and to imagine for our shared futures? In this session, participants will approach these questions and will present new data, techniques for extracting data from ceramics, methodological applications, and/or theoretical approaches on the analysis of ceramics from any cultural and temporal context in the world. Once more, Ceramic Ecology will foster interdisciplinary interactions and will explore new dimensions about the human experience through the creative and systematic study of ceramics.

Organizer(s)

• Sandra Lopez Varela

  Professor
  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

• Kostalena Michelaki

  Associate Professor
  Arizona State University

Chair(s)

• Kostalena Michelaki

  Associate Professor
  Arizona State University

Discussant(s)

• Rahul Oka

  Research Associate Professor
  University of Notre Dame

Presenter(s)

• Marcie Venter

  Assistant Professor
  Murray State University

• Anna Cohen

  Research Assistant Professor
  Utah State University

• Caitlin Wichlacz

  Arizona State University

• Katherine Dungan

  Postdoctoral Research Associate
  School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University

• Lisa Kealhofer

  Professor
  Santa Clara University

• Sukanya Sharma

  Associate Professor
  Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Presentations:

• 4:15 PM - 4:30 PM

  Divergent ceramic resource provisioning and production strategies in the Classic period Tuxtla Mountains of Veracruz, Mexico: implications for political-economic transformation after environmental and demographic upheaval.
  Marcie L. Venter – Murray State University
• 4:30 PM - 4:45 PM

  Ancient Regime Change and Political Economy: Perspectives from Ceramic Archaeometry at Angamuco, Michoacán
  Anna S. Cohen – Utah State University
• 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM

  Reframing Skill and Mastery in Pottery Making: Considerations from the American Southwest
  Caitlin A. Wichlacz – Arizona State University
• 5:00 PM - 5:15 PM

  Ceramics and Social Change in the Southern U.S. Southwest: Roosevelt Red Ware Production in the Tonto Basin
  Katherine A. Dungan – School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University
• 5:15 PM - 5:30 PM

  Social and political transformation in Early Iron Age central Anatolia: Gordion ceramics
  Lisa Kealhofer – Santa Clara University
• 5:30 PM - 5:45 PM

  Using Pottery to Study Past Economic Organizations of Northeast India
  Sukanya Sharma – Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
• 5:45 PM - 6:00 PM

  Discussion
  Rahul C. Oka – University of Notre Dame