Ceramics for the archaeologist
By: Anna O. Shepard
Contributors: Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
Series: Carnegie Institution of Washington publication -- 609
Publisher: Carnegie Institution of Washington
Published: 1961
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

LC copy had, laid in, a clipping with the title, Archeology Section, Norman Yoffee, contributing editor, including "Ceramic Analysis and Social Inference in American Archaeology: The Ceramic Legacy of Anna O Shepard : report on a workshop and roundtable held at the Univ. of Colorado-Boulder, Oct. 31-Nov.2, 1988"; article has some underlining (also on the article on verso: "Anthropology in the Academy") and a ms. comment. Also laid in was a postcard of Casa de Adobe in Los Angeles sent to Dudley Easby, Feb. 23, 1965, praising some of Easby's academic articles; now housed in an envelope under same call number. Provenance: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation; originally collected by Elizabeth and Dudley Easby.
Table of contents: title: Ceramic materials: their composition, sources and properties; title: Ceramic processes and the techniques of prewheel potters; title: Ceramic analysis and description; title: Problems of pottery classification; title: Interpretation of ceramic data; title: Appendices; title: References and suggested reading.