ABSTRACT
The author latent interest in experimental archaeology had been aroused during conversations with Gordon Bronitsky, who believed that experiments in ceramic technology could lead to a better understanding of prehistoric pottery design. During the first decade of the twenty-first century, several graduate students at Arizona were studying technological change. It is necessary to distinguish between different processes of technological change because different processes-as behavioral contexts-require the use of different models, theories, and heuristic tools. Archaeologists of the American Southwest had long been fascinated by the "corrugated" ceramics of prehistoric puebloans. These undecorated wares were laboriously built of thin, flattened coils that, in the joining process, were indented on the exterior surface, and so produced a distinctive texture. Ethnoarchaeology is usually regarded as the study, by archaeologists, of "traditional", non-Western societies, such as Australian Aborigines or Maya Indians.
