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Somewhere, sometime, somebody established names for different periods of pueblo pottery.  Excavations at prehistoric sites unearthed hundreds of years of pottery examples and names were assigned to each period.

At today's occupied pueblos, archaeological excavations have generally not been permitted.  One very limited excavation permitted at Acoma in the early 20^th century revealed that earlier pottery was decorated glazeware-designs applied with a paint containing lead ore.  From excavated examples Frank Harlow was able to extrapolate that Acoma glazeware spanned the years from 1300 to 1700.

Read more about this pottery here..