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Description: In this authoritative volume, Carla M. Sinopoli provides an overview of the current potential uses of ceramic analysis in archaeology and presents a broad range of theoretical and methodological approaches utilized in this area of study. Commencing with a description of ceramic production in a contemporary village in southern India, Sinopoli proceeds to discuss approaches to classification, including the intuitive, type-variety, and quantitative methods of ceramic typology. The author then examines techniques of ceramic analysis and interpretation of ancient ceramics that can be used to answer anthropological and historical questions, and reviews case studies demonstrating how these approaches have been utilized by archaeologists. The text covers interpretive issues that include ceramic ethnography and chronology, production and distribution systems, and ceramic use in social and political organization. Current directions in ceramic research are considered in the final chapter. Contents: Approaches to archaeological ceramics Defining ceramics Using ceramics to answer questions: I. Ethnographic data, ceramic ethnoarchaeology, and ceramic chronologies Using ceramics to answer questions: II. Ceramic use and ceramic production and distribution Using ceramics to answer questions: III. Ceramics and social organization Using ceramics to answer questions: IV. Ceramics and political organization Directions in ceramic research Appendix: statistical techniques for ceramic analysis Chapter 3: Studying archaeological ceramics (43-67), is available below in PDF form.
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