Using data drawn primarily from the American Southwest, Stephen
Plog shows that there are basic problems with the methods
archaeologists traditionally use to classify and analyse
prehistoric pottery. Archaeologists have studied the painted
designs and other stylistic (that is, non-functional)
characteristics on different types of prehistoric artifacts in
order to infer information about prehistoric social organization
and cultural change. Such studies usually argue that the degree of
similarity between the designs found on ceramic vessels at
different prehistoric sites were occupied or from the amount of
interaction between the people who occupied them. In Stylistic
Variation in Prehistoric Ceramics, the author proposes that many
factors, rather than just two, cause design or stylistic variation
on artifacts. He demonstrates flaws in the logic and method of
previous studies and suggests that the ways in which designs have
been classified and understood are often inappropriate. Employing
archaeological information from the Chevelon Canyon area of
east-central Arizona, he constructs his own proposal for a new
analytic framework. Professor Plog's study provides a major
contribution to archaeological method and theory and should be of
interest to a broad range of archaeologists.
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