Searching for Structure in Pottery Analysis addresses the
theoretical and methodological imperatives involved in
(re)integrating descriptive, structural, and compositional
analytical methods in a series of contributions from a diverse
group of experts in archaeological pottery. Drawing on the life's
work of materials scientist Cyril Stanley Smith (The Search For
Structure, MIT Press, 1981), a pioneering materials scientist who
brought an important focus on structure to studies of a variety of
archaeological materials, the contributors focus on those forms of
analysis which investigate structural characteristics of ceramics
and the methodologies that link such structural characteristics
with the typological and compositional data that compose the
majority of evidence in contemporary ceramic analyses. The chapters
include essays organized into two sections: the first focuses on
how the practices of ceramic production and the structures they
generate enable inferences about the social relations between
producers and consumers of pottery; and the second focuses on the
role structure plays in the refraction and maintenance of different
forms of social grouping and identity. These two themes serve as
orienting foci for a broad set of heuristic and technical tools
that have the potential to alter how archaeologists extract and
identify the social information captured in the multifarious
properties of pottery and transform contemporary understandings of
the different roles ceramics played in past societies.
General
| Imprint: |
Equinox Publishing Ltd
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
New Directions in Anthropological Archaeology |
| Release date: |
August 2022 |
| Editors: |
Alan F Greene
• Charles W Hartley
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| Dimensions: |
254 x 178 x 0mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
|
| Pages: |
218 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-78179-053-3 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
1-78179-053-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781781790533 |
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