Atlas of Ceramic Pastes
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491_9781939755216
This timely and valuable contribution led by Dr Isabelle Druc, a renowned ceramic specialist, brings the spotlight back to the study of pottery and its myriad relationships with people. This handy guide will be useful for both students and professionals interested in learning to investigate, with precision, the composition of raw materials and their transformation by people. It enables the identification and description of their choices that inform about the critical stuff (techniques, identity, values, landscape) of ancient cultures. (George Lau, Sainsbury Research Unit, University of East Anglia, UK)This practical guide to macroscopic ceramic analysis will be of great value to many archaeologists, regardless of their knowledge of geology or previous experience with compositional analyses. The detailed descriptions and illustrations should be particularly helpful in the initial stages of analysis by facilitating the definition of paste groups (based on their constituent minerals, rock fragments, and textures); inferences about production techniques; and the selection of meaningful samples for more detailed petrographic and chemical studies. The book also serves as a clear, concise guide to terminology commonly used by ceramicists and geologists. (Jason Sherman, Dept of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)Indispensable manual for all archaeologists interested in giving a thorough and objective basis to the discussion on the organization of ceramic production and distribution using the concept of chaîne opératoire. An important contribution to help the selection of samples for more advanced archaeometric analysis. (Krzysztof Makowski, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú)ABSTRACT: This manual is the first of its sort describing the use of the new portable digital microscope for analysis of archaeological ceramics in the field or in the laboratory. It is presented like a geological atlas with a description of the most common minerals
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