Materiality, Techniques and Society in Pottery Production
Subtitle: The Technological Study of Archaeological Ceramics Through Paste Analysis
Publisher: de Gruyter GmbH, Walter
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9783110410198
Subjects: Pottery craft; Pottery
Description: "Daniel Albero Santacreu presents a wide overview of certain aspects of the pottery analysis and summarizes most of the methodological and theoretical information currently applied in archaeology in order to develop wide and deep analysis of ceramic pastes. The book provides an adequate framework for understanding the way pottery production is organised and clarifies the meaning and role of the pottery in archaeological and traditional societies. The goal of this book is to encourage reflection, especially by those researchers who face the analysis of ceramics for the first time, by providing a background for the generation of their own research and to formulate their own questions depending on their concerns and interests. The three-part structure of the book allows readers to move easily from the analysis of the reality and ceramic material culture to the world of the ideas and theories and to develop a dialogue between data and their interpretation."--