Understanding Pottery Function

• Main Author: Skibo, James M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Manuals in Archaeological Method, Theory and Technique,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.

The 1992 publication of Pottery Function applied ethnoarchaeological data collected among the Kalinga and experiments to set forth the principles for the creation of pottery use-alteration traces (residue, carbonization, and abrasion). Analogous to lithic use-wear analysis, this study  developed the...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Understanding Pottery Function
• 2. Intended Function: Inferring Manufacturing Performance
• 3. Sooting and Carbonization
• 4. Attrition
• 5. Residue.