Whiteware pottery, ranging in color from white through pale brown, is manufactured today in communities north of the Valley of Guatemala (Guatemala, Central America), and appears in the archaeological ceramic record of the valley as early as 1000 to 500 B. C. Postclassic pottery proves to be identical in many of its properties to contemporary pottery made in Chinautla and to the clay source used by modern-day potters in that village. -- AATA