Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments 1. Pottery and People ~ James M. Skibo 2. The Chaco-Chuska Connection: In Defense of Anna Shepard ~ James B. Stoltman 3. Socialization in American Southwest Pottery Decoration ~ Patricia L. Crown 4. Standardization and Specialization: What's the Link? ~ William A. Longacre 5. Advantages and Disadvantages fo Vertical-Half Molding Technology: Implications for Production Organization ~ Dean E. Arnold 6. Rethinking our Assumptions: Economic Specialization at the Household Scale in Ancient Ejutla, Oaxaca, Mexico ~ Gary M. Feinman 7. Ceramics and Social Contexts of Food Consumption in the Northern Southwest ~ Barbara J. Mills 8. Levels of Complexity: Ceramic Variability at Vijayanagara ~ Carla M. Sinopoli 9. Finely Crafted Ceramics and Distant Lands: Classic Mixtequilla ~ Barbara L. Stark 10. Tecomates, Residential Mobility, and Early Formative Occupation in Coastal Lowland Mesoamerica ~ Philip J. Arnold III 11. Exploring the Origins of Pottery on the Colorado Plateau ~ James M. Skibo and Eric Blinman 12. u0022Looking Upu0022 at Early Ceramics in Greece ~ Karen D. Vitelli 13. A Behavioral Theory of Meaning ~ Michael Brian Schiffer References Cited Index Contributors

About the Author

James Skibo is associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Illinois State University. Gary Feinman is professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.