La organización de la producción de cerámica colonial en la frontera sur del imperio español (Mendoza, Republica Argentina)

Abstract This article proposes a model of technological organization of ceramic production during the colonial period in Mendoza. Historical and archaeological evidence, including unpublished data, are used together to reconstruct the sequence of ceramic production and the agents involved. Data are interpreted in the social and economic context of the process of ceramic production. Evidence supports the conclusion that between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, there were multiple workshops with at least two organizational levels and different technological traditions. This explains the t...