Producción alfarera en Piura (Perú): estilos técnicos y diacronía

Abstract

Looking for markers of collective identity (ethnicity) archaeologists have renewed their studies on the pottery workshops, in order to identify modes of making objects (technical style). These three concepts (collective identity, pottery workshops, technical style) have been shaped by ethnography. Nevertheless, the ethnographic evidence is also historical: it changes in time and space. In the following, this essay will discuss the synchronic variability of pottery techniques in a vast region of northern Perú and its implications for the interpretation of the (pre-colonial) past through objects.

Keywords

• ethnography
• pottery production
• archaeology
• material culture
• Olleros