Discontinuing traditions: Using historically informed ethnoarchaeology in the study of Evros ceramics

Ethnoarchaeological studies of pottery primarily focus on the ethnographic present, often disregarding the role of history in the production of materi al culture. This paper integrates information from historical sources and e thnographic interviews to better understand stylistic ceramic change. Begin ning in the 1920s, undecorated pots largely replaced decorated pottery in t he region of Evros, Greece. I argue that historically informed ethnoarchaeo logy provides the key to documenting and understanding the concomitant chan ges in the social context of pottery production and consumption and the dis tribution of material culture.