@article {9728,
	title = {More than Meets the Eye: Reconsidering Variability in Iroquoian Ceramics},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie},
	volume = {31},
	year = {2007},
	pages = {143-170},
	abstract = {<p>This paper presents an approach to the analysis of Iroquoian ceramics that goes beyond the traditional normative creation of ethno-chronological typologies to consider pottery as a dynamic material shaped by, and in turn shaping, complex webs of human and material interactions. To accomplish this goal I consider how the shell-tempered pots that appeared in some Neutral Iroquoian villages in the late 16th and 17th centuries AD have been interpreted. I discuss both the hypothesis that they had been made by Fire Nation captives-a typical interpretation in Ontario archaeological writings-and the possibility that they were better suited for cooking maize-an interpretation appearing in archaeometric considerations of northeastern North American shell-tempered pottery. I argue that both interpretations are limited and offer instead an approach inspired by recent writings in ethnoarchaeological ceramic studies, social theory, and the social nature of technology.</p>},
	author = {Kostalena Michelaki}
}
