Here, we consider the last decades of ceramic manufacture among the Pawnee in the Central Great Plains, using petrographic analysis to explore raw material availability and use at the Kitkahahki Town site (14RP1). Historical documents reveal tremendous regional pressures and conflicts in the Kitkahahki Town area during its occupation in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries—processes that could have altered or restricted the movement of women outside village boundaries. Contact-era Pawnee pottery from Kitkahahki Town exhibits atypical paste textures, atypical inclusions, or both. At least one potter used atypical materials available immediately adjacent to the village, which suggests that ceramic raw material collection was at least occasionally adjusted to reduce risk. Petrographic analysis contributes to our understanding of Indigenous communities in colonial settings, particularly to questions of technological change and landscape use when both were intensely negotiated and rapidly changing.

在这里，我们考虑了大平原中部波尼人过去几十年的陶瓷制造，使用岩相分析来探索 Kitkahahki 镇遗址 (14RP1) 的原材料可用性和使用情况。历史文件揭示了 Kitkahahki 镇地区在 18 世纪末和 19 世纪初被占领期间的巨大区域压力和冲突——这些过程可能改变或限制了妇女在村庄边界之外的活动。来自 Kitkahahki 镇的接触时代波尼陶器呈现出非典型的糊状纹理、非典型内含物，或两者兼而有之。至少一名陶工使用了紧邻村庄的非典型材料，这表明陶瓷原材料的收集至少偶尔会进行调整以降低风险。