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Karen Harry, Associate
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Interests: Southwestern archaeology, ceramics,
lithics, chemical compositional analysis, experimental
archaeology, prehistoric trade and exchange,
organization of craft production.
For much of the 20th century, it was assumed that
formative period Southwestern households were
economically self-sufficient and that members of each
household produced all the items they needed to
function on a daily basis. This viewpoint remained
largely unchallenged until the last quarter-century,
when improvements in chemical and mineralogical
sourcing techniques ushered in a new era of ceramic
production and exchange studies. As a result of these
studies, we now know that part-time craft
specializations were the norm, rather than the
exception, during most times and places in the
prehistoric Southwest. This recognition has altered
our perceptions of the prehistoric Southwestern
landscape. Such systems of specialized production and
trade would have impacted labor allocations, gender
relations, and community and inter-regional social
ties. As we continue to make strides in our ability to
identify the archaeological locations of craft
specialization and trade, we are increasingly able to
explore these issues.
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Selected Publications
- In Press: Lisa Frink
(with Karen Harry). The Beauty of
"Ugly" Eskimo Cooking Pots. American
Antiquity.
- 2005. Ceramic
Specialization and Agricultural Marginality: Do
Ethnographic Models Explain the Development of
Specialized Pottery Production in the Prehistoric
American Southwest? American Antiquity
70/2:295-320.
- 2004. (with Allen
Johnson) A Non-Destructive Technique for Measuring
Ceramic Porosity Using Liquid Nitrogen. Journal
of Archaeological Science 31/11:1567-1575.
- 2003. Economic
Organization and Settlement Hierarchies: Ceramic
Production and Exchange Among the Hohokam.
Westport: Praeger Press.
- 2002. (with Paul
Fish and Suzanne Fish) Production, Distribution,
and Consumption of Tanque Verde Red-on-brown
Ceramics in Two Hohokam Communities. Ceramic
Production and Circulation in the Greater
Southwest: Source Determination by INAA and
Complementary Mineralogical Investigations,
99-109., Donna Glowacki and Hector Neff, eds.
The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Monograph 44.
Los Angeles: UCLA Press.
- 2000. (with James
Bayman) Leadership Strategies among the Classic
Period Hohokam: A Case Study. Alternative
Leadership Strategies in the Prehispanic
Southwest, 136-153. Barbara Mills, ed.
Tucson: U of Arizona Press.
- 2000.
Community-Based Craft Specialization: The West
Branch Site. New Perspectives on the Hohokam
Village, 197-120. David E. Doyel and Suzanne
K. Fish, eds. Southwestern and Rocky Mountain
Division of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science.
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