Understanding pottery function
| 1. Verfasser: |
Skibo, James M.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
New York, NY :
Springer,
2013.
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| Umfang/Format: |
ix, 192 p. : ill. (some col.), maps. ; 24 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Manuals in archaeological method, theory, and technique
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| ISBN: | 1461441986 9781461441984 9781461496113 |
| ISSN: | 1571-5752 |
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Table of contents only Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Attrition. Principles of Ceramic Attrition ; Use-Attrition: Abrasive Processes ; Use Attrition: Nonabrasive Processes ; Use-Attrition Terms ; Case Study: Kalinga ; Kalinga Pottery Surfaces and Other Relevant Technical Properties ; Use Attrition on Kalinga Pots ; Summary ; Case Study: Griffiths and Bray ; Case Study: Hardin and Mills ; Case Study: Sherds as Tools ; Case Study: Alcohol Fermentation ; Recording Attritional Traces on Prehistoric Pottery ; References.
- Residue ; Co-authored by Mary Malainey Kalinga Study ; British Invasion ; Approaches to Lipid Residue Analysis ; Sample Selection ; Sample Processing Techniques ; Gas Chromatography for the Analysis of Archaeological Lipid Residues ; The Problem of Diagenesis ; Compound-Specific Stable Isotope Analysis ; Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy ; Case Study: Origins of Pottery in the Upper Great Lakes ; Case Study: Late Prehistoric Pottery Function from Western Canada ; Case Study: Finding Evidence of Maize Processing in North America ; Case Study: Origins of Pottery in Southeastern Arizona ; Final Recommendations ; A Concluding Comment ; References.
- Sooting and Carbonization. Kalinga Vessels and Internal and External Carbonization ; The Kalinga ; The Kalinga Ethnoarchaeological Project ; Kalinga Internal and External Carbonization Patterns ; Principles for External Sooting ; What Is Soot ; Soot Patches ; Temperature of Fire ; Distance from Fire ; Mode of Cooking ; Case Study: Late Archaic Pottery and Exterior Sooting ; Principles for Internal Carbonization ; Mode of Cooking: Wet/Dry ; Other Factors ; Case Study: Origins of Pottery on the Colorado Plateau ; Recording External and Internal Carbonization on Prehistoric Collections ; Start with Whole Vessels ; Recording Use Carbonization and Sooting Patterns on Whole Vessels ; Recording Use-Alteration Traces on Sherds ; Trickery ; Inferences ; References.
- Understanding Pottery Function. The Joys of Pottery ; Actual Versus Intended Pottery Function ; An Approach to Pottery Function ; Performance-Based Life History Approach ; Life-History/Behavioral Chain ; Activities and Interactions ; Technical Choices and Compromises ; Performances Characteristics ; The Approach to the Writing in This Book ; A Story of Pottery and People: Origins of Pottery Making on Grand Island ; Review of the Book's Contents ; References.
- Intended Function: Inferring Manufacturing Performance ; Understanding Technical Choices and Performance ; Morphology ; Paste Composition: Temper (Type, Size, Shape, Quantity) and Clay (Type, Chemistry) ; Firing Temperature ; Surface Treatments ; Inferring Intended Function: Primary and Secondary Performance Characteristics, and Derivative Choices ; Is It Just About Techno-function? ; From Sherds to Intended Function ; Reference.
