An Ethnoarchaeological Study of the Zizia Pottery Factory in Jizza, Jordan

This study of the Zizia Pottery Factory in Jizza, central Jordan, offers empirical data and sociocultural observations of a modern industrialized system comprised of interrelated aspects: artisans, scale and technology of production, spatial and social organization, and distribution. Since the factory processes, with a few exceptions, are not far removed from those known from antiquity, the modern quantitative data and on-site observations in this report may be used to interpret archaeological evidence or to reconstruct the framework of an industrialized pottery workshop from a limited archaeological record.