Ceramics in archaeology
Subtitle: readings from American antiquity, 1936-2002
By: compiled by Hector Neff
Publisher: Society for American Archaeology
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
Subjects: American Pottery; Classification; Analysis; Ceramics; Research; Archaeology; Methodology
Notes: Includes bibliographic references.

Compilation of papers previously published in the journal American antiquity.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Introduction -- -- 1.; title: Early formative cultures in Georgia and Florida  -- James A. Ford; title: Part II: The Typological Concept -- -- 2.; title: The typological concept  -- Alex D. Krieger -- 3.; title: On the typological method  -- Irving Rouse -- 4.; title: Statistical techniques for the discovery of artifact types  -- Albert C. Spaulding -- 5.; title: Comments on A. C. Spaulding, "Statistical techniques for the discovery of artifact types"  -- James A. Ford -- 6.; title: Reply to Ford  -- Albert C. Spaulding -- 7.; title: Ceramic variety, type cluster, and ceramic system in southwest pottery analysis  -- Joe Ben Wheat, James C. Gifford, and William W. Wasley -- 8.; title: The importance of both analytic and taxonomic classification in the type-variety system  -- Jeremy A. Sabloff and Robert E. Smith -- 9.; title: Sabloff and Smith's "the importance of both analytic and taxonomic classification in the type-variety system"  -- Robert C. Dunnell -- 10.; title: Ethnomineralogy of Ticul, Yucatan potters: etics and emics  -- Dean E. Arnold -- 11.; title: Rethinking the ware concept  -- Prudence M. Rice; title: Part III: Time's Arrow -- -- 12.; title: A chronological method applicable to the southeast  -- James A. Ford -- 13.; title: A method for chronologically ordering archaeological deposits  -- W.S. Robinson -- 14.; title: Stratigraphy and seriation  -- John H. Rowe -- 15.; title: Seriation method and its evaluation  -- Robert C. Dunnell -- 16.; title: Stylistic variation in evolutionary perspective: inferences from decorative diversity and interassemblage distance in Illinois woodland ceramic assemblages  -- Fraser D. Neiman -- 17.; title: Ceramic style change and neutral evolution: a case study from Neolithic Europe -- S.J. Shennan and J.R. Wilkinson; title: Part IV: Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick Any Two: Characterization of Ceramic Materials -- -- 18.; title: The reducing atmosphere and oxidizing atmosphere in prehistoric southwestern ceramics  -- Harold S. Colton -- 19.; title: Technological analysis of prehistoric lower Mississippi ceramic materials: a preliminary report  -- Elizabeth C. Weaver -- 20.; title: Temper identification: "technological sherd-splitting" or an unanswered challenge  -- Anna O. Shepard -- 21.; title: Comments on Weaver's "Technological analysis of prehistoric lower Mississippi ceramic materials  -- James A. Porter -- 22.; title: Megascopic and petrographic analyses of a foreign pottery vessel from the Cahokia site  -- Charles J. Bareis and James Warren Porter -- 23.; title: Laboratory-scale instrumental neutron activation for archaeological analysis  -- Ralph A. Johnson and R.F. Heizer -- 24.; title: Neutron activation analysis of some Cuicuilco and Teotihuacan pottery: archaeological interpretation of results  -- J.A. Bennyhoff and R.F. Heizer -- 25.; title: Problems in pottery analysis  -- Anna O. Shepard -- 26.; title: X-ray diffraction analysis of prehistoric pottery  -- John W. Weymouth -- 27.; title: Comments on Weymouth's "X-ray diffraction analysis of prehistoric pottery"  -- Prudence M. Rice -- 28.; title: Sensitivity, precision, and accuracy: their roles in ceramic compositional data bases  -- Ronald L. Bishop, Veletta Canouts, Patricia L. Crown, and Suzanne P. De Atley -- 29.; title: Acid extraction as a simple and inexpensive method for compositional characterization of archaeological ceramics  -- James H. Burton and Arleyn W. Simon -- 30.; title: An assessment of the acid-extraction approach to compositional characterization of archaeological ceramics  -- Hector Neff, Michael D. Glascock, Ronald L. Bishop, and M. James Blackman -- 31.; title: A pot is not a rock: a reply to Neff, Glascock, Bishop and Blackman  -- James H. Burton and Arleyn W. Simon -- 32.; title: Evaluation of painted pottery from the Mesa Verde region using laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-massed spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS)  -- Robert J. Speakman and Hector Neff; title: Part V: Pots As Tools: Performance Counts -- -- 33.; title: "Cell tempered" pottery  -- Anna O. Shepard -- 34.; title: New perspectives on experimental archaeology: surface treatments and thermal response of the clay cooking pot  -- Michael Brian Schiffer, James M. Skibo, Tamara C. Boelke, Mark A. Neupert, and Meredith Aronson -- 35.; title: Life-expectancy of utilitarian pottery in Tzintzuntzan, Michoacan, Mexico  -- George M. Foster -- 36.; title: Mortal pots: on use life and vessel size in the formation of ceramic assemblages -- Michael J. Shott.