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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Toronto, 2004. / Adviser: Martha A. Latta.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1990. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [614]-688).

Traditionally, the analysis of ceramics has played a major role in archaeological research the world over, and this is particularly true in the Maya area where until recently ceramic studies have been used for the sole purpose of chronological ordering. This dissertation discusses the historic development of ceramic research in Maya archaeology, as well as documenting the present role of ceramic analyses, as preface to the analysis of the ceramics from Cuello, a small site in northern Belize. Excavations at the site indicate that the area under study, Platform 34, was occupied from the Early Formative at about 2,000 b.c. until the Late Formative at about a.d. 250, when Platform 34 was apparently largely abandoned, although other areas of the site continue to be occupied. The analysis of the ceramics from Cuello proceeds utilizing the traditional type: variety classification system to order the ceramics chronologically. The Cuello typology, in accordance with the major period of occupation of Platform 34, spans a period of time beginning in the Early Formative with the Swasey Complex, and ending in the Late Formative with the Cocos Complex. While some typological comparisons of ceramics among sites in the Maya Lowlands are made to place Cuello securely within a chronological framework, the main thrust of the analysis is to understand intra-site ceramic variability. Unlike earlier maya ceramic analyses, the present one continues with a vessel form classification, since forms are considered sensitive indicators of functional variability within the site. It is shown, through this analysis, that ceramic analyses are useful for more than chronological ordering,and when ceramic variability is examined within the archaeological contexts in which the ceramics are found, has the potential of informing on functional and social patterns on an intra-site level.

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Orientador: Geralda M. F. S. Dalglish (Lalada Dalglish) / Banca: Jean-Jacques Armand Vidal / Banca: Marosil Marini / Banca: Camila da Costa Lima / Banca: Sonia Carbonell Alvares / Resumo: Percebendo uma dinâmica na cerâmica indígena que é fruto de agências e seus efeitos de captura sobre os receptores desta arte, a pesquisa faz uma aproximação às relações socioambientais e cosmologias, andina e amazônica, para compreender as ontologias indígenas e as relações de alteridade com seres míticos como a serpente, que desencadeiam transformações sociais nas aldeias. A atuação do xamanismo na produção de conceitos e de pessoa está inscrita nas produções cerâmicas através de referências à serpente como nos kene Shipibo-Conibo e na iconografia cerâmica andina pré-colombiana, indicando que os saberes cerâmicos indígenas funcionam em rede cosmológica na América do Sul. / Resumen: Percibiendo una dinámica en la cerámica indígena que es fruto de agencias y sus efectos de captura sobre los receptores de esta arte, la investigación hace una aproximación a las relaciones socioambientales y cosmologías, andina y amazónica, para comprender las ontologías indígenas y las relaciones de alteridad con seres míticos como la serpiente, que desencadenan transformaciones sociales en las aldeas. La atuación del xamanismo en la producción de conceptos y de persona está inscrita en las producciones cerámicas a través de referencias a la serpiente, como los kene, el dibujo Shipibo-Conibo, y en la iconografía cerámica andina precolombina, indicando que los saberes cerámicos indígenas funcionan en red cosmológica en América del Sur. / Abstract: Noticing a dynamic in the indigenous ceramics that is the result of agencies and their capture effects on the receptors of this art, the research makes an approximation to the socio-environmental relations and cosmologies, Andean and Amazonian, to understand the indigenous ontologies and the relations of alterity with mythical beings like the serpent that trigger social transformations in the communities. The agency of the xamanism in the production of concepts and of person is inscribed in the ceramic productions through references to the serpent as the kene, drawings Shipibo-Conibo, and prehispanic Andean ceramic iconography, indicating that indigenous ceramic knowledge functions in a cosmological network in South America. / Mestre

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Thesis (Honors)--College of William and Mary, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 60-65). Also available via the World Wide Web.

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