Pub Date : 2018-09-12DOI: 10.5744/florida/9780813056067.003.0004
S. Pozorski, T. Pozorski
The Sechín Alto Polity, centered in the Casma Valley on the north coast of Peru, constructed the largest mound structures in the New World during the Initial Period (2100–1000 B.C.). The polity united at least six inland sites and three coastal satellites into a political and economically cooperative unit within which different sites and different monumental structures had distinct, but complementary, functions. Prominent among the artifacts that define the Sechín Alto Polity are ceramic figurines. Examples are consistently from domestic or residential contexts; most (more than 350 fragments) were recovered from Sechín Alto site, the polity capital, where they were likely manufactured. Iconography within Andean archaeology of the figurines connects them with warrior figures and victims depicted in the Cerro Sechín stone carvings and by extension with anthropomorphic friezes that adorn the temple mound of Moxeke within the Sechín Alto Polity. These data suggest that the Casma figurines may represent distinct groups of people who in turn reflected sacred vs. secular aspects of Casma Valley society.
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{"title":"The Importance of Symmetry in Defining Caddo Relationships:","authors":"Johanna Minich, J. Price","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvx079fr.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvx079fr.17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":157917,"journal":{"name":"Ceramics of Ancient America","volume":"156 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134191566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"List of Maps","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvx079fr.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvx079fr.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":157917,"journal":{"name":"Ceramics of Ancient America","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122278119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ceramic Wares and Water Spirits:","authors":"D. Dye","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvx079fr.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvx079fr.8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":157917,"journal":{"name":"Ceramics of Ancient America","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115517479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"List of Figures","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvx079fr.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvx079fr.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":157917,"journal":{"name":"Ceramics of Ancient America","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122939074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-09-12DOI: 10.5744/FLORIDA/9780813056067.003.0002
D. Dye
Water spirits as major Mississippian cosmic powers assumed various forms ranging from panther-like to serpent-like, and these varying visualizations were crafted as ceramic vessels, copper objects, rock art, and shell media. Evidence of water spirit religious sodalities is reflected in the numerous Lower Mississippi Valley “cat serpent” bottles and bowls found in northeastern Arkansas and southeastern Missouri. Their use flourished during the protohistoric period, the decades between the Hernando de Soto entrada and initial French contact. Water spirit vessels were crucial for transforming and in consuming medicinal potions for purification in water spirit rituals. In this chapter I discuss these Lower Mississippi Valley “Great Serpent” effigy vessels and argue that they were central to religious beliefs in Beneath World deities associated with the cycle of life and death and appealed to through ritual supplication and veneration.
水灵作为密西西比的主要宇宙力量，呈现出各种各样的形式，从豹状到蛇状，这些不同的视觉化被制作成陶瓷容器、铜器、岩石艺术和贝壳媒介。在阿肯色州东北部和密苏里州东南部发现的许多密西西比河谷下游的“猫蛇”瓶子和碗反映了水灵宗教团体的证据。在原始历史时期，也就是Hernando de Soto entrada和法国人最初接触之间的几十年里，它们的使用非常盛行。在水灵仪式中，水灵容器对于转化和饮用用于净化的药剂至关重要。在本章中，我将讨论这些密西西比河下游山谷的“大蛇”雕像容器，并认为它们是地下世界的宗教信仰的核心，与生死循环有关，并通过仪式的祈求和崇拜来吸引人们。
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Pub Date : 2018-09-12DOI: 10.5744/FLORIDA/9780813056067.003.0008
Dorothy K. Washburn
The step fret motif is pervasive in ceramic design and other media throughout Mesoamerica and the American Southwest. Through both design structure and symmetry analysis, I show how the plane pattern symmetries that repeat the step fret motif reveal contact between the two areas from the Formative through the Postclassic periods in the form of shared pattern systems. The analysis highlights a profound change at the end of the Classic from one-color, one-dimensional designs to two-color, two-dimensional patterns that seems to correlate with changes in the nature of spheres of political dominance.
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{"title":"List of Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvx079fr.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvx079fr.22","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":157917,"journal":{"name":"Ceramics of Ancient America","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133740888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Symmetry Analysis of Step Fret Patterns on Ceramics and Other Media from Mesoamerica and the American Southwest:","authors":"Dorothy K. Washburn","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvx079fr.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvx079fr.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":157917,"journal":{"name":"Ceramics of Ancient America","volume":"209 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132464346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-09-12DOI: 10.5744/FLORIDA/9780813056067.003.0003
J. Farmer
In chapter 3, James Framer investigates a pattern of artistic evolution in depictions of the human figure in a series of figurative ceramic styles originating in ancient coastal Ecuador. Between c.3000 BCE and c.500 CE, a chronological sequence of five distinct but connected ceramic styles emerged in the region: Valdivia, Machalilla, Chorrera, Jamacoaque, and La Tolita. Close scrutiny of changes in the rendering the human figure in this sequence reflect aesthetic and philosophical changes in the intent of both patrons and artists. Comparisons are noted between ancient Ecuadorian and certain other ancient American figurative ceramics and the development of the Classic human figure type in Greek art. This essay argues that certain specific artistic techniques and conventions employed in Classic Greek art, and by which the Classic tradition has long been defined, were also being developed independently by ancient American ceramicists. Contrapposto, high naturalism, canonical proportion and ratios, and highly animated postures and gestures, all seem to have also been developed and applied in the ancient Americas, perhaps reflecting the emergence of a distinct form of ancient American humanistic philosophy, separate but parallel to the more famous Classical tradition from the Old World.
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