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Ancient Peruvian Potters' Marks and Their Interpretation through Ethnographic Analogy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Christopher B. Donnan
Christopher B. Donnan*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
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Abstract

Pre-fire incised marks can be observed on many of the plain cooking and storage ceramic vessels of the Moche style, which flourished on the north coast of Peru from approximately 100 B.C. to A.D. 800. A possible explanation of these marks is suggested on the basis of an ethnographic analogy to the present-day practices of potters in the central sierra of Peru. It is suggested that the marks were made to facilitate the identification of the pots of each potter during production and prior to the actual marketing of the pots.

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American Antiquity , Volume 36 , Issue 4 , October 1971 , pp. 460 - 466
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1971

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