Abstract
Ethnoarchaeological studies of pottery primarily focus on the ethnographic present, often disregarding the role of history in the production of material culture. This paper integrates information from historical sources and ethnographic interviews to better understand stylistic ceramic change. Beginning in the 1920s, undecorated pots largely replaced decorated pottery in the region of Evros, Greece. I argue that historically informed ethnoarchaeology provides the key to documenting and understanding the concomitant changes in the social context of pottery production and consumption and the distribution of material culture.
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Kalentzidou, O. Discontinuing Traditions: Using Historically Informed Ethnoarchaeology in the Study of Evros Ceramics. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 7, 165–186 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026506519916
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