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1 online resource (xi, 233 pages) |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Petrography First: Issues of Identification and Sourcing Volcanic Ash Temper in Maya Pottery / Connie Christensen -- 2. The Importance of Petrography for Interpreting Compositional Data: A Case Study of Tanque Verde Red-on-Brown / Mary F. Ownby -- 3. The Organization of Ceramic Production and the Origins of Complexity in the Late Prehispanic Coastal Societies of Ecuador / Jeff Speakman -- 4. Petrography and pXRF at San Pedro de Atacama, Northern Chile: Exploring Ancient Ceramic Production / Ester Echenique -- 5. Technical Comparisons of Halaf and Ubaid Sherds from Tell Ziyadeh: A Pilot Study / Yukiko Tonoike -- 6. Petrography in the Age of Instrumental Characterization: An Example from Honey Bee Village, Pima County, Arizona / James M. Heidke -- 7. The Contribution of Petrography to Understanding the Production and Consumption of Early Helladic Ceramics from Nemea, Mainland Greece / Daniel J. Pullen -- 8. The Use of Loess in Pottery Manufacture: A Comparative Analysis of Pottery from Yinxu in North China and Linearbandkeramik Sites in Belgium / James B. Stoltman -- 9. Clay Pellets in Hohokam Red-on-Buff Pottery: Shifts in Pottery Recipes and the Organization of Ceramic Production / Sophia E. Kelly -- 10. Looking for the Right Outcrop: Ceramic Petrography in the Peruvian Andes / Pedro Navarro -- 11. Petrography and Behavior When the Minerals Do Not Change: Textural Analysis of Disaster Impacts on Historic Hidatsa Potting Practices, North Dakota / Kacy L. Hollenback -- 12. Field-Based Experiments Replicating Ceramic Fabrics: Late Bronze Age Cookwares from Two Mediterranean Sites / Mara T. Horowitz -- 13. Point/Counter Point II: The Accuracy and Feasibility of Digital Image Techniques in the Analysis of Pottery Tempers Using Sherd Edges / Ann S. Cordell -- 14. Ceramic Petrography: Integration, Adaptation, and Innovation / Ian K. Whitbread |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
This volume grew out of a symposium entitled "Petrography's Continued Role in Ceramic Studies: New Advances and Debates," held at the 2012 Society for American Archaeology meeting |
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Print version record |
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Petrology in archaeology -- Congresses
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Ceramics -- Analysis -- Congresses
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Pottery -- Congresses
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Ceramics -- Analysis
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Petrology in archaeology
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Pottery
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ownby, Mary F., editor
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Druc, Isabelle C. (Isabelle Clara), 1962- editor.
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Masucci, Maria A., 1958- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781607815075 |
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1607815079 |
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