This revised edition provides an up-to-date account of the many different kinds of information
that can be obtained through the archaeological study of pottery. It describes the scientific …

Behavioral archaeology offers a way of examining the past by highlighting human
engagement with the material culture of the time.'Behavioral Archaeology: Principles and …

We furnish a theoretical framework for explaining that portion of formal variability in artifacts
attributable to the behavior of the artisan. Major causal factors are the artisan's knowledge …

Many uncertainties and doubts often arise when students, researchers and professionals of
archaeology start the study of the huge amount of ceramic sherds collected in …

This paper proposes a framework for the study of Prehistoric pottery attritions. The analytical
method was built from recent works performed on the Early Neolithic ceramic productions of …

The use of a pottery vessel leaves markers on the ceramic wall that can inform
archaeologists how the vessel functioned in the past. At present, archaeologists have little …

This contribution discusses the results of an integrated approach of use wear analysis,
spectroscopic analysis and experimental archaeology, applied for the investigation of the …

Post-firing treatments, produced by the interaction of an organic material with the hot surface
of a ceramic, are frequently described in ethnographic literature, but have rarely been …

Surface treatment techniques, that is, smoothing and burnishing, help to define the cultural,
traditional, and economical state of an ancient society. They prove artistic feelings combined …

Cooking pots made by craft specialists in a neighborhood in a small city in the Philippines
are hand made, using the paddle and anvil technique, and then slipped with an iron-rich …