Technology and Organisation of Inka Pottery Production in the Leche Valley. Part I: Study of Clays
We report on an interdisciplinary approach to the study of finds of unfired clay lumps and unfired broken vessels from two workshops in the Leche Valley, north coast of Peru. The material is used as a reference in the study of pottery making at both workshops.
ABSTRACT What follows is a short note on James Fenske's article, The Causal History of Africa: A Response to Hopkins (Economic History of Developing Regions, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2010). The intention is to prevent what I regard as a wholly unnecessary bifurcation of effort in a field that, more than many others, needs its few practitioners at least to agree on the broad framework within which disagreement can then take place.