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Ceramics for the archaeologist
Anna O. Shepard
- 01 Jan 1956
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TL;DR: In this article, the chemical and physical characteristics of prewheel potters are described and analyzed in terms of their properties and properties, and methods of analysis and description of pre-wheel pottery are evaluated.
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Abstract: This book describes the chemical and physical characteristics of ceramic materials and processes and evaluates methods of analysis and description in terms of archaeological objectives. Sections are devoted to the composition, sources and properties of ceramic materials, the techniques of prewheel potters, methods of analysis and description, and problems of pottery classification. Glossary and bibliography. -- ICCROM
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The Black Pottery of Coyotepec, Oaxaca, Mexico. Paul Van De Velde Henriette Romeike Van De Velde with a foreword by F. W. Hodge. (Southwest Museum Papers, No. 13, pp. 1–43, pls. 39, fig. 1. Los Angeles, California, 1939.)
TL;DR: Martin's guess is that the SU Site would date about 500 A.D. or earlier as mentioned in this paper, however, the wood that Martin found did not lend itself to dendrochronology dating so no dates were secured.
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A Preliminary Analysis of Ban Chiang Painted Pottery, Northeast Thailand
Penelope van Esterik
- 01 Jan 1974
TL;DR: The red-on-buff painted pottery of northeastern Thailand provides an opportunity to reevaluate assumptions of cultural development in Southeast Asia as discussed by the authors and is represented at the sites of Non Nok Tha, Ban Chiang, and Non Ban Kho, as well as at other sites in the area that have not yet been reported.
Teotihuacan neighborhoods' expansion in Northwestern Mexico. Cultural implications and social processes from ceramic analysis of El Mezquital-Los Azules, Guanajuato
TL;DR: In this paper, a multi-method approach, combining typological, archaeometric (NAA and petrography) and iconographic data from ceramics from the site of El Mezquital-Los Azules (Guanajuato) was used to improve our understanding of the mechanisms of the Teotihuacan expansion in Northwestern Mexico.
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Ceramics from prehistoric Non Pa Wai, central Thailand: A preliminary petrographic investigation
TL;DR: In this article, petrographic, chemical and granulometric analyses of diagnostic sherds and mortuary vessels were performed for a preliminary investigation of their production technology and raw materials provenance in the Khao Wong Prachan Valley at the pre and protohistoric site of Non Pa Wai (Lopburi Province, Central Thailand).
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Las vasijas y su potencial como sujetos estabilizadores de seres incompletos: prácticas mortuorias de infantes durante el período tardío en el valle calchaquí norte
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed infant burials in vessels from the Late Intermediate Period in the North Calchaqui Valley (Salta, Argentina) and determined that the objects were used for other activities before entering the tombs, as tasks related to food preparation.
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Argonauts of the Western Pacific
Bronislaw Malinowski
- 01 Jan 1922
TL;DR: The Argonauts of the Western Pacific as discussed by the authors is a detailed account of exchange in the Melanesian islands and a manifesto of a modernist anthropology that argued that the goal of which the ethnographer should never lose sight is to grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world.
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Fundamental condition of glass formation
TL;DR: In this article, the bond strength of all M-O single-bond linkages in oxide glasses is calculated and tabulated here for the first time, and the transition is continuous, the division into glassformers, intermediates, and modifiers is arbitrary.
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A Method for Chronologically Ordering Archaeological Deposits
TL;DR: In this article, a statistical technique based on the empirically established fact that over the course of time pottery types come into and go out of general use by a given group of people is proposed.
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