ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I am grateful to Ken Sassaman, Marijke van der Veen, Kathryn Weedman, James Skibo, and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful and constructive comments on the paper. I thank the Ethiopian Ministry of Culture and Information’s Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage for their support and for facilitating my fieldwork. I also thank the Gamo people and BerhanuWolde and Gezahegn Alemayehu for their hardwork during 2 years of fieldwork.Mygratitude goes out to Melanie Brandt, who drew the beautiful vessel profiles. This research was supported by a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant # SBR 97-05781