In this article, we examine the role of pottery production in social and community integration processes during the Late Intermediate period (ca. CE 1000–1450). We explore this relationship through a case study of Yavi-Chicha ceramics from the aggregated community of Chipihuayco, Bolivia, in the Chicha region. Through a combined approach based on macroscopic and petrographic analyses, we reconstruct the chaînes opératoires and determine technological styles in the production of both smoothed and polished/decorated vessels. The results are discussed in relation to different approaches to the idea of community and group identity within the context of corporate political strategies and decentralized institutions during the Late Intermediate period. This community-level analysis demonstrates that potters or groups of potters who aggregated at Chipihuayco shared substantial technological choices and at the same time followed their own ways of producing ceramics—expressed in fundamental technological variability. We conclude that potters and the people who participated in the chaînes opératoires were involved in a broader dynamic process of interaction and continuous negotiation through their engagement in production practices, leading to community and social integration. Further, group and community affiliation was also continually redefined through consumption practices in the context of political commensalism.

在本文中，我们考察了中后期晚期（约CE 1000-1450）陶器生产在社会和社区融合过程中的作用。我们通过对Chicha地区玻利维亚Chipihuayco聚集社区的Yavi-Chicha陶瓷进行案例研究，探讨了这种关系。通过基于宏观和岩石学分析的组合方法，我们重建了链条歌剧并确定平滑和抛光/装饰容器生产中的技术风格。在中期后期，在公司政治策略和权力下放机构的背景下，讨论了有关社区和群体认同概念的不同方法的结果。这项社区层面的分析表明，在Chipihuayco聚集的陶工或陶工群体共享大量的技术选择，同时遵循自己的生产陶瓷的方式-基本的技术可变性得到了体现。我们得出的结论是，陶艺家和参加ChaînesOpératoires的人们通过参与生产实践，参与了更广泛的互动和持续谈判的动态过程，从而导致社区和社会融合。此外，在政治共处主义的背景下，通过消费实践也不断重新定义了群体和社区的归属。