Acknowledgments

Members of the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study, particularly Kathy Niles Hensler and Vern Hensler, analyzed thousands of ceramic sherds from the ASU excavations that contributed to this study among many others. Shearon Vaughn prepared the maps, Christopher Warren photographed the vessels, Shauna Moore, Sheldon Watson, and Michael Ritchie assisted with the study of the Gila Pueblo Collection from the Cline Terrace Mound (Roosevelt 5:10). The Arizona State Museum and its staff, particularly Mike Jacobs and Lisa Zimmerman, are thanked for their assistance with access to this collection. I thank Jim Mayer for his interest in compositional analysis of artifacts and support of multidisciplinary research.
Part of the research for this paper was conducted for the Bureau of Reclamation as a result of the modifications to the Roosevelt Dam. The fieldwork for the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS) was conducted under the terms of a permit from the Tonto National Forest.

Credits

Photographs taken by members of the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study and provided by the Office of Cultural Resource Managment, Arizona State University.
Figure 3 was produced by Peter McCartney

The Hopi firing and pottery-making sequences shown in the text originally appeared as Figures 1 and 5 in Potsherds: An Introduction to the Study of Prehistoric Southwestern Ceramics and their Use in Historic Reconstruction by Harold S. Colton. Northern Arizona Society of Science and Art, Flagstaff, 1953.

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