@article{fe66db1c4a114753aa81c7228cbbcc13,
title = "Local recipes or distant commodities? Lead isotope and chemical compositional analysis of glaze paints from the Salinas pueblos, New Mexico",
abstract = "For nearly four hundred years, Pueblo potters in the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico produced technologically innovative glaze-decorated bowls and exchanged them widely among different villages. While potential sources of lead ores used to make glaze paints are found throughout the Rio Grande Valley region, researchers have only recently begun to identify which ore sources potters exploited and to understand the social and economic factors underlying patterns of ore resource use. In this paper we use stable lead isotope and electron microprobe analysis of glaze paints on Rio Grande Glaze Ware made at two Salinas pueblos to identify ore sources and glaze recipes used by their potters. Despite some isotopic overlap of ore sources, the lead isotope data point to regular exploitation of ores from the Socorro area of the southern Rio Grande. Salinas potters apparently used other sources as well, and likely mixed ores from different sources. We also identify four local glaze recipes that appear to incorporate multiple ore sources, suggesting that Salinas potters obtained raw ores rather than finished glaze paints.",
keywords = "Electron microprobe, Glaze paint recipes, ICP-MS, Lead isotope sourcing, Pottery production and exchange, Rio Grande Glaze Ware, Salinas pueblos",
author = "Huntley, {Deborah L.} and Spielmann, {Katherine A.} and Habicht-Mauche, {Judith A.} and Herhahn, {Cynthia L.} and Flegal, {A. Russell}",
note = "Funding Information: Samples of lead ore were kindly provided by Homer Milford (formally of the Mining and Minerals Division of the New Mexico Department of Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources, Santa Fe), Virginia McLemore and Robert Weber of the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Socorro, and David Hill of Archaeological Research and Technology, Inc., Austin. Elizabeth Kerin and Sarah Ginn performed the sample digestions for the lead isotope analysis. Rob Franks, in charge of the ICP-OES and ICP-MS instruments at the Institute of Marine Sciences at UCSC, provided critical assistance with instrument operation and calibration as well as interpreting and evaluating the lead isotope data. Dan Sampson (Department of Earth Sciences, UCSC) generously allowed us to use his clean room for sample dilutions. The electron microprobe analysis was made possible by the late Jim Clark (Department of Geology, ASU). Excavations at the Salinas pueblos were funded by Arizona State University, the University of Iowa, the National Geographic Society, the National Science Foundation, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Support for compositional analyses was provided by the ASU Department of Anthropology, the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society, Sigma Xi, and the Division of Social Sciences and Academic Senate Committee on Research at UCSC. We would like to thank Eric Blinman and three anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript. ",
year = "2007",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1016/j.jas.2006.10.006",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "34",
pages = "1135--1147",
journal = "Journal of Archaeological Science",
issn = "0305-4403",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
number = "7",
}