Searching for Structure in Pottery Analysis

Applying Multiple Scales and Instruments to Production

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvAlan F Greene,Charles W Hartley,Alan F. Greene,Charles W. Hartley,F Greene, Alan,W. Hartley, Charles

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-08-01
Mått178 x 254 x 19 mm
Vikt3 400 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Directions in Anthropological Archaeology
Antal sidor218
FörlagEquinox Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781781790533

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Keramik, mosaik och glaskonst inom Kultur
Arkeologi inom Historia och arkeologi

Alan F. Greene is an affiliate researcher at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. Charles W. Hartley completed his Ph.D. in anthropological archaeology at the University of Chicago in 2020. Charles is a codirector of the Making of Ancient Eurasia (MAE) project, an analytical collaboration between anthropologists and material scientists at Argonne National Laboratory.

ForewordHeather Lechtman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1. The Structure of Ceramic Analysis: Multiple Scales and Instruments in the Analysis of ProductionAlan F. Greene and Charles W. Hartley2. From Texture to Temper: A Multi-scalar Approach to Identifying Variation in Clay Preparation StrategiesMaryFran Heinsch, University of Chicago3. Producing Structure: The Role of Ceramic Production in Understanding Chaco-period Communities in the American SouthwestAndrew I. Duff, Washington State University4. Ceramic Production and Society in the Late Majiayao Culture of Northwest ChinaMichele Koons, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and Jade D’Alpoim Guedes, University of California, San Diego5. From Structure to Composition and Back: Digital Radiography and Computed Tomography; Some Cases for Anthropological ContemplationCharles W. Hartley, Alan F. Greene, and Paula N. Doumani Dupuy, Nazarbayev University6. Coiling on the Wheel: The Sociopolitical Implications of a Particular Formation Technique in Bronze Age CreteIna Berg, University of Manchester7. (Ceramic) Structure and (Communities of) Practice in the Bronze Age Black SeaAlexander Bauer, Queens College, City University of New York8. Laterality and Directionality in Pottery Painting and CoilingKathryn A. MacFarland, University of Arizona9. What a Difference Structure Makes: Material Styles of Syrian Caliciform Ware Identified through Ceramic PetrographySarah R. Graff, Arizona State University10. X-ray Fluoroscopy in Your Own Backyard: A Method for Analyzing Ceramic Formation TechniquesErin N. Hegberg and Philip H. Heintz, both at University of New Mexico11. Conclusion: A New Search for StructureAlan F. Greene and Charles W. Hartley