Although aimed at the beginning student and cross-disciplinary professional, as a work that purports to offer a standardization and representative periodization of Transjordanian pottery typology, the volume is of more than passing interest to the scholarly community. Such a complete description is usually lacking in most published typologies, and I agree that an acceptable descriptive model would enhance comparative studies.
Numerous drawings illustrate the basic vessel parts, and pottery drawing conventions are provided.
The beginning student will find extremely informative the illustrations, descriptions, and terminology of lip, rim, wall, base, handle, neck, spout, as well as surface treatment. The professional may glean a few things, too, e.g. the inconsistency in the use of rim stance and rim inflection. Their argument that computer-oriented analysis demands objective, standardized terminology for comparative study is apropos. Their form-based paradigm is based on a study of about 4000 published whole vessels from Transjordan. Alas, beyond that their methodological procedures, evidence, and scholarly support remain enigmatic.