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The Production Step Measure: An Ordinal Index of Labor Input in Ceramic Manufacture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Gary M. Feinman ,
Steadman Upham  and
Kent G. Lightfoot
Gary M. Feinman
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281
Steadman Upham
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281
Kent G. Lightfoot
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281
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Abstract

We present the production step measure, an ordinal scale index of the labor input in ceramic manufacture. The measure is used to compare the relative labor costs of producing different kinds of pottery vessels. It is then employed in an analysis of archaeological ceramic samples from the Late Postclassic Valley of Oaxaca and the Reserve phase in the Pine Lawn Valley, New Mexico.

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American Antiquity , Volume 46 , Issue 4 , October 1981 , pp. 871 - 884
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1981

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