| OCR Text |
Show Valley and Long House Valley inhabitants were engaged in specialized ceramic production, but additional excavation at sites in both areas is needed to verify the extent of the production system. All societies interact with related and foreign groups to varying degrees. Exchanges of raw materials, manufactured objects, information, marriage partners, or ritual knowledge are common and culturally significant forms of social interaction. The material residue of the archaeological record, although incomplete, facilitates inferences about which groups were interacting and in what capacity. Focusing on a single artifact class-ash-tempered Tusayan White Ware-has further informed our exploration of exchange systems in the Kayenta region, which have proven to be more complex and yet more patterned than previously anticipated. V.4.19 |
