A tale of two technologies: Prehistoric diffusion of pottery innovations among hunter-gatherers

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 23-31

  Eerkens, Jelmer W ^a   Lipo, Carl P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brownware; California; Diffusion of innovation; Hunter gatherers; Luminescence dating; Pottery

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900304268     PISSN: 02784165     EISSN: 10902686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2014.04.006     Document Type: Article

References (69)

1. Abrahamson E. Managerial fads and fashions: the diffusion and rejection of innovations. Acad. Manage. Rev. 1991, 16:586-612.
2. Aitken M.J. Thermoluminescence Dating 1985, Academic Press, London.
3. Banerjee D., Murray A.S., Bøtter-Jensen L., Lang A. Equivalent dose estimation using a single aliquot of polymineral fine grains. Radiat. Meas. 2001, 33:73-94.
4. Basalla George The Evolution of Technology 1988, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
5. Basgall, Mark E., 2008. An Archaeological Assessment of Late-Holocene Environmental Change in the Southwestern Great Basin. In: Basgall, M.E., Waugh, G. (Eds.), From Avocados to Millingstones: Papers in Honor of Delbert L. True. Monographs in California and Great Basin Anthropology No. 5. California State University, Sacramento, pp. 137-153.
6. Bettinger R.L. Multivariate statistical analysis of a regional subsistence-settlement model for Owens Valley. Am. Antiq. 1979, 44:455-470.
7. Bettinger, R.L., 1983. Aboriginal sociopolitical organization in Owens Valley: beyond the family band. In: Tooker, E., Fried, H.M. (Eds.), Development of Political Organization in Native North America. Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society, 1979, Washington, pp. 45-58.
8. Bettinger, R.L., 1989. The Archaeology of Pinyon House, Two Eagles, and Crater Midden: Three Residential Sites in Owens Valley, Inyo County, California. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, No. 67.
9. Brown L.A., Cox K.R. Empirical regularities in the diffusion of innovation. Ann. Assoc. Am. Geogr. 1971, 61:551-554.
10. Close A. Few and far between: early ceramics in North Africa. The Emergence of Pottery: Technology and Innovation in Ancient Societies 1995, 23-37. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. W.K. Barnett, J.W. Hoopes (Eds.).
11. Crown P.L., Wills W.H. The origins of Southwestern ceramic containers: women's time allocation and economic intensification. J. Anthropol. Res. 1995, 51:173-186.
12. Dean J.S. Independent dating in archaeological analysis. Adv. Archaeol. Method Theory 1978, 1:223-255.
13. Delacorte, M.G., 1990. The prehistory of Deep Springs Valley, Eastern California: Adaptive Variation in the Western Great Basin. Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis (unpublished Ph.D. thesis).
14. Delacorte, M.G., 1999. The Changing Role of Riverine Environments in the Prehistory of the Central-Western Great Basin: Data Recovery Excavations at Six Prehistoric Sites in Owens Valley, California. Report submitted by Far Western Anthropological Research Group to Caltrans District 9, Bishop, California.
15. Eerkens J.W. Residential mobility and pottery use in the Western Great Basin. Curr. Anthropol. 2003, 44:728-738.
16. Eerkens J.W. Towards a chronology of brownware pottery in the Western Great Basin: a case study from Owens Valley. North Am. Archaeol. 2003, 24:1-27.
17. Eerkens J.W. Privatization, small-seed intensification, and the origins of pottery in the western Great Basin. Am. Antiq. 2004, 69:653-670.
18. Eerkens J.W. GC-MS analysis and fatty acid ratios of archaeological potsherds from the western Great Basin of North America. Archaeometry 2005, 47:83-102.
19. Eerkens J.W. Nomadic potters: relationships between ceramic technologies and mobility strategies. The Archaeology of Mobility: Old World and New World Nomadism 2008, 307-326. Cotsen Institute Press, Los Angeles. H. Barnard, W. Wendrich (Eds.).
20. Eerkens J.W., Neff H., Glascock M. Early pottery from Sunga'va and implications for the development of ceramic technology in Owens Valley, California. J. Calif. Great Basin Anthropol. 1999, 20:275-285.
21. Eerkens J.W., Neff H., Glascock M. Ceramic production among small-scale and mobile hunters and gatherers: a case study from the southwestern great basin. J. Anthropol. Archaeol. 2002, 21(2):30.
22. Feathers J.K. Use of luminescence dating in archaeology. Meas. Sci. Technol. 2003, 14:1493-1509.
23. Feathers J.K., Rhode D. Luminescence dating of protohistoric pottery from the great basin. Geoarchaeology 1998, 13(3):287-308.
24. Fischer A.J., Arnold A.J., Gibbs M. Information and the speed of innovation adoption. Am. J. Agric. Econ. 1996, 78:1073-1081.
25. Gayton A.H. Yokuts and western mono pottery-making. Univ. Calif. Publ. Am. Archaeol. Ethnogr. 1929, 24:239-251.
26. Gilreath, A.J., Hildebrandt, W.R., 1997. Prehistoric Use of the Coso Volcanic Field. Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility no. 56. University of California, Berkeley.
27. Goldenberg J., Oreg S. Laggards in disguise: resistance to adopt and the leapfrogging effect. Technol. Forecast. Soc. Chang. 2007, 74:1272-1281.
28. Griset, S., 1986. Pottery of the Great Basin and Adjacent Areas, Anthropological Papers, No. 111. University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
29. Hargadon A.B. How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate 2003, Harvard Business School Press, Boston.
30. Henrich J. Cultural transmission and the diffusion of innovations: adoption dynamics indicate that biased cultural transmission is the predominate force in behavioral change. Am. Anthropol. 2001, 103:992-1013.
31. Henrich, J., 2009. The Evolution of Innovation-Enhancing Institutions. Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology, pp. 99-120.
32. Hunt, C., 1960. Petrography of the pottery. In: Hunt, A. (Ed.), Archaeology of the Death Valley Salt Pan, California. Anthropological Papers of the University of Utah, No. 47. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, pp. 195-201.
33. Jackson, T.L., 1990. Prehistoric ceramics of the southwestern Sierra Nevada, California. In: Mack, J. (Ed.), Hunter-Gatherer Pottery from the Far West. Anthropological Papers, No. 23. Nevada State Museum, Carson City, pp. 159-169.
34. Ceramics Before Farming The Dispersal of Pottery Among Prehistoric Eurasian Hunter-Gatherers 2010, Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, CA. P. Jordan, M. Zvelebil (Eds.).
35. Kameda T., Nakanishi D. Cost-benefit analysis of social/cultural learning in a nonstationary uncertain environment: an evolutionary simulation and an experiment with human subjects. Evolut. Human Behav. 2002, 23:373-393.
36. Kuttruff J.T., DeHart S.G., O'Brien M.J. 7500 Years of prehistoric footwear from arnold research cave, Missouri. Science 1998, 281:72-75.
37. LeBlanc S.A. Temporal change in Mogollon ceramics. Southwestern Ceramics: A Comparative Review 1982, 107-128. Arizona Archaeological Society, Phoenix. A.H. Schroeder (Ed.).
38. Lipo C.P., Feathers James K., Dunnell R.C. Temporal data requirements, luminescence dates, and the resolution of chronological structure of late prehistoric deposits in the central Mississippi river valley. Am. Antiq. 2005, 70:527-544.
39. Lockett, C., Pippin, L., 1990. Re-examining brownware ceramics in the central and southern Great Basin. In: Mack, J.M. (Ed.), Hunter-Gatherer Pottery from the Far West. Nevada State Museum Anthropological Papers No. 23: Carson City, NV, pp. 67-82.
40. Lyneis M.M. Tizon brown ware and the problems raised by paddle-and-anvil pottery in the Mojave Desert. J. Calif. Great Basin Anthropol. 1988, 10:146-155.
41. Mack, J.M. (Ed.), 1990. Hunter-Gatherer Pottery from the Far West. Nevada State Museum Anthropological Papers 23, Carson City, NV.
42. Mahajan V., Peterson R.A. Models for Innovation Diffusion 1985, Sage Publications, Newbury Park, CA.
43. Mansfield E. Technical Change and the Rate of Imitation. Econometrica 1961, 29:741-766.
44. Martinez E., Polo Y., Flavián C. The acceptance and diffusion of new consumer durables: differences between first and last adopters. J. Consum. Market. 1998, 15:323-342.
45. Mesoudi A., Whiten A. The multiple roles of cultural transmission experiments in understanding human cultural evolution. Philosop. Transact. Roy. Soc. B 2008, 363:3489-3501.
46. Moore G. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-tech Products to Mainstream Customers 1991, Harpers Collins, New York.
47. Murray A.S., Wintle A.G. Luminescence dating of quartz using an improved single-aliquot regenerative-dose protocol. Radiat. Meas. 2000, 32(1):57-73.
48. Pinhasi R., Gasparian B., Areshian G., Zardaryan D., Smith A. First direct evidence of chalcolithic footwear from the near Eastern Highlands. PLoS ONE 2010, 5(6):e10984. 10.1371/journal.pone.0010984.
49. Pippin, L.C., 1986. Intermountain brown wares: an assessment. In: S. Griset (Ed.), Pottery of the Great Basin and Adjacent Areas. Anthropological Papers, No. 111, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, pp. 9-21.
50. Prince, E.R., 1986. Shoshonean pottery of the Western Great Basin. In: Griset, S. (Ed.), Pottery of the Great Basin and Adjacent Areas. University of Utah Anthropological Papers 111, Salt Lake City, pp. 3-8.
51. Reid, K.C., 1990. Simmering down: a second look at Ralph Linton's "North American cooking pots". In: Mack, J.M. (Ed.), Hunter-Gatherer Pottery from the Far West. Anthropological Papers Number 23, Nevada State Museum, Carson City, NV, pp. 7-17.
52. Rhode D. Direct dating of brown ware ceramics using thermoluminescence and its relation to the Numic spread. Across the West: Human Population Movement and the Expansion of the Numa 1994, 124-130. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. D.B. Madsen, D. Rhode (Eds.).
53. Rogers E.M. The Diffusion of Innovations 2003, Free Press, New York. fifth ed.
54. Sackett James R. Isochrestism and style: a clarification. J. Anthropol. Archaeol. 1986, 5:266-277.
55. Schiiffer M.B. Formation Processes of the Archaeological Record 1987, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
56. Schiiffer M.B. Studying technological differentiation: the case of the 18th-century electrical technology. Am. Anthropol. 2002, 104:1148-1161.
57. Schiiffer M.B. The devil is in the details: the cascade model of invention processes. Am. Antiq. 2005, 70:485-502.
58. Schiiffer M.B. The electric lighthouse in the nineteenth century: aid to navigation and political technology. Technol. Cult. 2005, 45:275-305.
59. Schiiffer M.B. A cognitive analysis of component-stimulated invention: electromagnet, telegraph, and the capitol dome's electric gas-lighter. Technol. Cult. 2008, 49:376-398.
60. Sood A., Telllis G.J. Technological evolution and radical innovation. J. Market. 2005, 69:152-168.
61. Steward J.H. Ethnography of the Owens Valley Paiute. Univ. Calif. Publ. Am. Archaeol. Ethnogr. 1933, 33:233-350.
62. Steward J.H. Basin-Plateau Aboriginal Sociopolitical Groups 1938, Smithsonian, Wasghington, DC.
63. Surovell T.A., Brantingham P.J. A note on the use of temporal frequency distributions in studies of prehistoric demography. J. Archaeol. Sci. 2007, 34:1868-1877.
64. Thompson V.D., Stoner W.D., Rowe H.D. Early hunter-gatherer pottery along the Atlantic Coast of the southeastern United States: a ceramic compositional study. J. Island Coastal Archaeol. 2008, 3:191-213.
65. Touhy, D.R., 1990. Second thoughts on Shoshoni pots from Nevada and elsewhere. In: Mack, J. (Ed.), Hunter-Gatherer Pottery from the Far West. Anthropological Papers, No. 23. Nevada State Museum, Carson City, pp. 84-105.
66. Touhy, D.R., Strawn, M.B., 1986. A comparative analysis of thin sections from plain brown pottery vessels found in the desert west. In: Griset, S. (Ed.), Pottery of the Great Basin and Adjacent Areas. University of Utah Anthropological Papers 111, Salt Lake City, UT, pp. 85-96.
67. Uhl K., Andrus R., Poulsen L. How are laggards different? An empirical inquiry. J. Mark. Res. 1970, 7:51-54.
68. Wallace, W.J., 1986. The pottery of Mesquite Flat, Death Valley, California. In: Griset, S. (Ed.), Pottery of the Great Basin and Adjacent Areas. Anthropological Papers, no. 111. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, pp. 71-74.
69. Wejnert B. Integrating models of diffusion of innovations: a conceptual framework. Ann. Rev. Sociol 2002, 297-326.