A consideration of material culture style has been a part of archaeology almost from the
beginning. However, only in the past few decades have many archaeologists begun to …

We furnish a theoretical framework for explaining that portion of formal variability in artifacts
attributable to the behavior of the artisan. Major causal factors are the artisan's knowledge …

Certain aspects of what archaeologists have traditionally called stylistic variation can be
understood as the result of the introduction of selectively neutral variation into social …

As early as the first millennium AD, the Philippine archipelago formed the easternmost edge
of a vast network of Chinese, Southeast Asian, Indian, and Arab traders. Items procured …

This paper reviews ceramic ethnoarchaeological research conducted subsequent to
Kramer's (1985) seminal stock-taking. Among current trends are a continued interest in the …

This study examines cultural sources of variation in ceramic compositional patterning in two
pottery-making villages of the highland Philippines. In Dalupa, many potters are part-time …

We believe, as do a growing number of archaeologists (eg, Dunnell 1980, 1982, 1988;
Leonard 1989; Leonard and Jones 1987; Rindos 1984), that it is both desirable and …

Ceramic production and exchange have become important issues in archaeological
research on specialization and state formation. As one form of craft specialization, intensified …

We know a great deal about how prehistoric pots were made and used but surprisingly little
about how long they lasted in service. Vessel use life, however, is an important component …

Over the past decade, American archaeologists have ar gued with increasing frequency that
archaeological phenomena can be thought of as products of Darwinian evolution (RC …