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Ceramic Standardization and Intensity of Production: Quantifying Degrees of Specialization

Valentine Roux

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"The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between metric variability of ceramic vessels of a single type and intensity of production. This relationship is examined on the basis of vessels made by Indian and Spanish potters whose rates of production vary from low to high. Results are compared with Filipino data to embrace different cultures and therefore possibly different emic conceptions of standardization. We conclude that rate of production affects the degree of standardization. However, only in a high-rate production situation do we have motor habits that transcend emic conceptions of standardization. Indeed, factors like size classes, emic conception of size classes, and skill may induce a certain variability despite similar rates of production. Indexing degrees of standardization needs, in other respects, to take into account the cumulative effect of production events that play on the CV (Coefficient of Variation) values. Applied to Mesopotamian data, our results suggest that third millennium ceramic production can be compared to low-rate production observed ethnographically."
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halshs-00004793 , version 1 (09-10-2017)

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Valentine Roux. Ceramic Standardization and Intensity of Production: Quantifying Degrees of Specialization . American Antiquity, 2003, 68 (4), pp.768-782. ⟨10.2307/3557072⟩. ⟨halshs-00004793⟩
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