ANTH 3235
Ceramic Analysis
Fall 2024
Topics
- Introduction to the course
- Introduction to the laboratory
- Properties of ceramics and their analysis
- Rice Pottery Analysis: A Sourcebook
- Engaged Anthropology: Research Essays on North American Archaeology
- Ethnobotany, and Museology, edited by M. Hegmon and B. S. Eiselt, Museum
- of Anthropology, Anthropological Papers, No. 94, Ann Arbor
- Sub- Saharan Africa. Journal of Material Culture Vol. 4
- Breaking Pots
- Shipibo-Conibo Ceramics. In C. Kramer (ed) Ethnoarchaeology
- Implication of Ethnography for Archaeology, Columbia
- University Press, New York
- Ceramic materials
- Rice
- C. Orton, et al
- Watch Ceramic Composition with Dr Lindsay Bloch Florida Museum
- Arnold, D.E. The Ethnomineralogy of Ticul, Yucatan Potters: Emics and Etics
- American Antiquity 36:20-40
- ethnoarchaeological study. World Archaeology 17
- Drawing pottery
- ANTH 3235 FAO Ceramic Analysis 2024 Page
- Physical properties of clay minerals and inclusions
- Various Tempering Materials on Impact and Thermal-Shock Resistance. American
- Antiquity 51:89-101
Readings
- Required: Prudence Rice, Pottery Analysis: A Sourcebook, 2nd ed. (2015) University of Chicago Press Drafting materials, see Lab 3 instructions, MyCourseLink.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- syllabus ↗Fall 2024
- Course source ↗
- Additional readings or course materials are supplied through the course site or course pack.