Pottery technology : ideas and approaches / edited by Gordon Bronitsky.
By: Bronitsky, Gordon
Language: English Publisher: Boulder, Co., London : Westview Press, 1989.Description: viii, 220p. : ill., maps ; 22cm.ISBN: 0813374782
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Includes bibl. references. - Contents: 1, Ceramic production: the potter's perspective. Shell-tempered pottery and the Fort ancient potter / F.R. Matson; Functional factors of mica and ceramic burnishing / Dwight Wallace; Some techniques used by the potters of Tell Hadidi / Abraham van As; 2, Production processes. Thermal expansion measurement and the estimation of prehistoric pottery firing temperatures / T. Kaiser, W. Lucius; Simple methods of chemical analysis of pottery: a forgotten art / V.D. Gogte; Trace elements in the porcelain of the royal kiln at Jiaotan / Li Hu Hou; 3, Ceramic technology and socioeconomic systems. Clays to artifacts: resource selection in African early Iron Age iron-making technologies / Terry Childs; 4, Ceramic analysis and the study of formation processes. A materials science perspective on hunter-gatherer pottery / K.C. Reid; 5, The archaeologist and the archaeometrician: larger questions. A research design for ceramic use-wear analysis at Grasshopper Pueblo / M.B. Schiffer; Productive specialization, archaeometry and interpretation / F. Plog, S. Upham; Tinkering with technology / G.M. Feinman.
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