An Initial Study of the Origins of Chupadero Black-On-White

Description

Author: Wiseman, Regge N.  (1947-2022)

Publisher: Albuquerque Archaeological Society

Pub Date: 1986

Binding: Paperback

Condition:  Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Previous owner’s name on upper corner ffep/title page.  Very light edge and corner wear.

Notes:  Technical Note No. 2.  “Chupadero Black-on-white is one of the most distinctive and most common painted wares of the late prehistoric period in southeastern New Mexico and adjacent parts of Texas and Mexico.  Its widespread occurrence in quantity indicates that it had functional importance and perhaps aesthetic value as well….H.P. Mera first formally described it (1931) and a few years later suggested that the laboratory working type Casa Colorado B/W  was a Chupadero variant with its undecorated surface smoothed.  He thought Chupadero’s origins ultimately lay in the Chaco I and Chaco II types (now called Kiatuthlanna, Red Mesa, and Escavada B/Ws) through a geographically intermediate type called Socorro B/W.”  (From the Introduction)