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Description: This practical text presents a systematic use-alteration study that explores methods for determining actual pottery function from the traces that remain on vessels or sherds. Adopting a combined ethnoarchaeological and experimental approach, author James M. Skibo examines the pottery of the Kalinga people of northwestern Luzon, Philippines, to uncover the processes that govern the formation of organic residues in a vessel that provides information on what was stored or cooked, surface attrition, which reveals how a pot was manipulated during use, the formation of carbon deposits, which provide evidence for what was cooked and how it was heated. The text also utilizes a theoretical perspective to discuss the role of ethnoarchaeology and experimental studies in archaeological hypotheses.
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