Ceramic Wares in the Maya Area: a Clarification of an Aspect of the Type Variety Sistem and Presentation of a Formal Model for Comparative Use

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Jeremy A. Sabloff
Robert E. Smith

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The concept of ware has often been neglected in ceramic studies within the Maya area. Even when it has been used, this ceramic concept, which is an important part of the taxonomic hierarchy of the type-variety system (see Smith, Willey, and Gifford 1960), has been employed in a vaguely defined manner “to make inferences about economic features such as manufacturing centers and trade” (Culbert 1967, p.92). In relation to ware, the majority of the members of the Conference on the Prehistoric Ceramics of the Maya Lowlands felt “that the primary use of the ware concept should be at the level of integration and functional analysis, with wares abstracted from completed type definitions”.

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Sabloff, J. A., & Smith, R. E. (2012). Ceramic Wares in the Maya Area: a Clarification of an Aspect of the Type Variety Sistem and Presentation of a Formal Model for Comparative Use. Estudios De Cultura Maya, 8. https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ecm.1972.8.330
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Jeremy A. Sabloff

Doctro en Filosofía por la Universidad de Harvard, especializado en arqueología de Mesoamérica. Actualmente es profesor auxiliar del Museo Peabody. Ha participado en exploraciones arqueológicas en Seibal, Petén, Guatemala. Sus publicaciones incluyen: The Collapse of Maya Civilization in the Southern Lowlands; A consideration of History and Process (con Gordon R. Willey); The importance of Both Analytic and Taxonomic Classification in the Type-Variety System(con Robert E. Smith); Type Description of the Fine Paste Ceramics of the Bayal Boca Complex, Seibal, Petén, Guatemala; The Disappearance of Classic Maya Civilization (en prensa).

Robert E. Smith

Bachiller en Arte de la Universidad de Harvard. De 1933 hasta 1959, arqueólogo de la Institutción Carnegie de Washington, realizando, entre otros, trabajos arqueológicos en la región maya (Kaminaljuyú, Uaxactún, Alta Verapaz de Guatemala, y en Yucatán las ruinas de Chichén-Itzá, Uxmal, Cava y Mazapán). De 1959 hasta 1963 ha hecho excavaciones en Teotihuacan, especialmente en la Pirámide del Sol. Principales publicaciones: A Study of Structure A-I Complex at Uaxactún, Petén, Guatemala, Pottey from Chipoc, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala; Ceramic Sequence at Uaxactún, Guatemala; The Place of Fine Orange Pottery in Mesoamerican Archaeology; The Pottery of Mayapán; Incluiding Studies of Ceramic Material from Uxmal, Kabah, and Chichén-Itzá.

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