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Author: R. J. C. HildyardPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Ivor Noel Hume. If These Pots Could Talk. Milwaukee: Chipstone Foundation, 2001. ISBN 158465161X. [Review].
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Author: R. J. C. HildyardArchaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America
Author: Susan Toby EvansPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815308874
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 1322
Book Description
This reference is devoted to the pre-Columbian archaeology of the Mesoamerican culture area, one of the six cradles of early civilization. It features in-depth articles on the major cultural areas of ancient Mexico and Central America; coverage of important sites, including the world-renowned discoveries as well as many lesser-known locations; articles on day-to-day life of ancient peoples in these regions; and several bandw regional and site maps and photographs. Entries are arranged alphabetically and cover introductory archaeological facts (flora, fauna, human growth and development, nonorganic resources), chronologies of various periods (Paleoindian, Archaic, Formative, Classic and Postclassic, and Colonial), cultural features, Maya, regional summaries, research methods and resources, ethnohistorical methods and sources, and scholars and research history. Edited by archaeologists Evans and Webster, both of whom are associated with Pennsylvania State University. c. Book News Inc.
Ancient Starch Research
Author: Robin TorrencePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315434873
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 547
Book Description
What role did plant resources have in the evolution of the human species? Why and how have plants been managed and transported to new environments? Where, how, and why were plants domesticated, and why do the patterns vary in different parts of the world? What is the relationship between the intensification of food production and the rise of complex societies? Numerous new studies are using starch granules discovered in archaeological contexts to answer these questions and improve our knowledge of past human behavior and environmental variation. Given the substantial body of successful research, the time has clearly come for a comprehensive description of ancient starch research and its potential for archaeologists. This book fills these roles by describing the fundamental principles underlying starch research, guiding researchers through the methodology, reviewing the results of significant case studies, and pointing the way to future avenues for research. The joint product of over two dozen archaeological scientists, Ancient Starch Research aims to bring the important new field of ancient starch analysis to the attention of a wider range of scholars and to provide them with the information needed to embark on their own research.
The Archaeology of Martin's Hundred: Interpretive studies
Author: Ivor Noël HumePublisher:
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Category : Carter's Grove (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A Guide to the Artifacts of Colonial America
Author: Ivor Noël HumePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812217711
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Back in print, this is the most accurate and useful reference for identifying Anglo-American colonial artifacts.
The Persistence of Craft
Author: Paul GreenhalghPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813532646
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
In The Persistence of Craft, contributors discuss the development of not only six specific crafts--glass, ceramics, jewelry, wood, textiles, and metal--but also the trends and movements that have helped shape their developments. Includes 180 full-color illustrations.
If These Pots Could Talk
Author: Ivor Noël HumePublisher:
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Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Lively prose and wonderful color photographs portray a veteran's passion for British household pottery.
Marks of American Potters
Author: Edwin Atlee BarberPublisher:
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Category : Pottery
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Ceramic Masterpieces
Author: Pamela B. VandiverPublisher: Wiley-American Ceramic Society
ISBN: 9781119102922
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Ceramic Masterpieces: Art, Structure andTechnology was first published by the Free Press in 1986. It won a publisher’s award for art (American Publishers’ Association, Scholarly and Technical, Honorable Mention, 1986). The copyright is held by David Kingery’s son, William D. Kingery, Jr., who about 11 years ago signed over to the American Ceramic Society the rights to publish a second edition of the book. This second edition is divided into four parts. In the introductory section, it states : “The appearance of a ceramic is determined by its internal structure, which is in turn determined by the technology of its manufacture. Revolutionary new methods of study and analysis have advanced out understanding of ceramics. This book applies these new methods, connecting visual impact, internal structure, and technology for a deeper appreciation of ceramic masterpieces.” Each chapter outlines the transformative art and structure of a ceramic material by providing a general outline of history, artistic value, antecedent technologies, manufacture of the particular dated example, analysis of macrostructure, then microstructure, then composition, then firing, variability and its relation to appearance, and finally significance of technology and its contribution to art and culture. In the ceramic technology section, the sequences and variability of processing, exemplified in the case studies, is inventoried with emphasis on structure and transformation.
Mojave Pottery, Mojave People
Author: Jill Leslie McKeever FurstPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Despite the centrality of ceramics to Mojave culture, Mojave pottery is virtually unknown today. Museums have mostly small, unrepresentative, and largely undocumented collections, and the works have received little attention from scholars and collectors.This comprehensive volume brings to light the wondrously inventive clay people, mythological creatures, and effigy vessels of the Mojave people, recording this Southwest Indian ceramic art in more than 50 full-color plates, 25 color and black-and-white illustrations, and a complete catalog of the Dillingham Collection of Mojave Ceramics, one of the largest and most complete Mojave assemblages in the world, at the Indian Arts Research Center of the School of American Research. Jill Leslie Furst takes an ethnohistorical approach here, drawing on written literature about the tribe that ranges from seventeenth-century Spanish documents to ethnographic accounts from the 1970s. The stories of the Mojaves-along with descriptions of family life, gender roles, subsistence activities, clothing and personal adornment, shamanism, and the afterlife-form the context for Furst's exploration of the Mojave ceramic tradition.