Searching for Structure in Pottery Analysis

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.

• Foreword Heather Lechtman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1. The Structure of Ceramic Analysis: Multiple Scales and Instruments in the Analysis of Production Alan F. Greene and Charles W. Hartley 2. From Texture to Temper: A Multi-scalar Approach to Identifying Variation in Clay Preparation Strategies MaryFran Heinsch, University of Chicago 3. Producing Structure: The Role of Ceramic Production in Understanding Chaco-period Communities in the American Southwest Andrew I. Duff, Washington State University 4. Ceramic Production and Society in the Late Majiayao Culture of Northwest China Michele Koons, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and Jade D'Alpoim Guedes, University of California, San Diego 5. From Structure to Composition and Back: Digital Radiography and Computed TomographySome Cases for Anthropological Contemplation Charles W. Hartley, Alan F. Greene, and Paula N. Doumani Dupuy, Nazarbayev University 6. Coiling on the Wheel: The Sociopolitical Implications of a Particular Formation Technique in Bronze Age Crete Ina Berg, University of Manchester 7. (Ceramic) Structure and (Communities of) Practice in the Bronze Age Black Sea Alexander Bauer, Queens College, City University of New York 8. Laterality and Directionality in Pottery Painting and Coiling Kathryn A. MacFarland, University of Arizona 9. What a Difference Structure Makes: Material Styles of Syrian Caliciform Ware Identified through Ceramic Petrography Sarah R. Graff, Arizona State University 10. X-ray Fluoroscopy in Your Own Backyard: A Method for Analyzing Ceramic Formation Techniques Erin N. Hegberg and Philip H. Heintz, both at University of New Mexico 11. Conclusion: A New Search for Structure Alan F. Greene and Charles W. Hartley

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