<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Martelle, Holly</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Huron Historic Period Pottery Production: A Craft Specialization in a Non-state Society?</style></title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2000</style></year></dates><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ottawa</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Traditional state-level models of craft specialization have tended to overlook organizational complexities in non-state, non-market, 'egalitarian' societies like that of the historic period Huron. Recent critiques of such models challenge the applicability of the archaeological indicators such models employ (e.g. large scale production facilities and complex tools). Ethnographic surveys of pottery making technologies do not support theoretical models except in the case of high-demand urban &amp; state contexts. The high level of craftership observed on Huron vessels from the historic period Ball &amp; Auger Sites in Eastern Huron suggest that more than irregular individual family production was being carried out. Micro-stylistic analysis of vessels also do not suggest localized distributions of individual styles that might be indicative of household level production. This paper will argue that pottery production may have been carried out by a number of skilled (perhaps 'specialist') women and that restricted production may have developed as a response to both the increased labour demands of women in the historic period and the need to maintain high quality ceramic vessels.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>