Don't panic! You will not have to read every essay listed here. When we convene we will discuss how to break up the assignments so that the work load is spread across the entire group.
The readings are behind the Secretary's desk. Please be gentle with these copies and return them promptly when you are done. I expect everyone to skim all the readings. You are especially responsible for the readings marked with your name, or those marked "(ALL)". Come to class prepared to discuss your specific readings. I am looking for you to identify the central issues of your readings, the methods used, and the solutions offered.
1992 Ceramics from Roman Galilee: A Comparison of Several Techniques for Fabric Characterization. Journal of Field Archaeology. 19:189-205. (A. Tremblay)
1991 New World Paste Compositional Investigations. In The Ceramic Legacy of Anna O. Shepard, edited by R. L. Bishop and F. W. Lange, pp. 224-256. University Press of Colorado, Boulder. (ALL)
1986 Tempering Types and Sources for Early Bronze Age Ceramics from Bab edh-Dhra' and Numeira, Jordan. Journal of Field Archaeology 13:297-305. (F. Guffey)
1986 Experiments in Ceramic Technology: The Effects of Various Tempering Materials on Impact and Thermal-Shock Resistance. American Antiquity 51:89-101. (C. Lawton, M. Eberl)
1989 Ceramics and Temper: A Response to Feathers. American Antiquity 54:589-593. (C. Lawton, M. Eberl)
1989 Effects of Temper on Strength of Ceramics: Response to Bronitsky and Hamer. American Antiquity 54:579-588. (C. Lawton, M. Eberl)
1995 Ceramic Petrography. American Journal of Archaeology 99:111-115. (ALL)
1995 Peublo I Ceramic Production in Southwest Colorado: Analysis of Igneous Rock Temper. Kiva 60:371-390. (A. Magnioni)
1996 Production of Prehistoric Southwestern Ceramics: A Low-Technology Approach. American Antiquity 61:325-340. (M. Moriarty)
1988 Reconstructing Ceramic Production from Ceramic Compositional Data: An Example from Guatemala. Journal of Field Archaeology 15:339-48. (L. Roe)
1996 Recent Ceramic Analysis: 2. Composition, Production, and Theory. Journal of Archaeological Research 4:165-202. (ALL)
1996 Large-scale Patterns in the Chemical Composition of Mississippian Pottery. American Antiquity 61:555-572. (D. Rogart)
1991 Ceramic Petrography as a Technique for Documenting Cultural Interaction: An Example from the Upper Mississippi Valley. American Antiquity 56:103-120. (J. Griffin)
1990 The Thermal Properties of Textured Ceramics: An Experimental Study. Journal of Field Archaeology 17:195-203. (J. Deckard)
Note: The two Longacre books and the Reina and Hill volume are on Reserve at Howard-Tilton. The articles are on Reserve at the Anthropology Department.
1991 Ethnoarchaeology and Investigations of Ceramic Production and Exchange: Can We Go Beyond Cautionary Tales? In The Ceramic Legacy of Anna O. Shepard, edited by R. L. Bishop and F. W. Lange, pp. 321-345. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
1979 The Making and Breaking of Shipibo-Conibo Ceramics. In Ethnoarchaeology: Implications of Ethnography for Archaeology, edited by C. Kramer, pp. 102-138. Columbia University Press, New York.
1989 Tich Matek: The Technologyof Luo Pottery Production and the Definition of Ceramic Style. World Archaeology 21:148-164.
Longacre, William A. (editor)
1991 Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. (Chs. 1, 4, 10)
1994 Kalinga Ethnoarchaeology. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C. (Chs. 6, 8, 10)
1978 The Traditional Pottery of Guatemala. University of Texas Press, Austin. (Chs. 2, 7, 10-11, skim rest)
1989 Ceramic Style Analysis and Ethnoarchaeology: Bridging the Analytical Gap. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 8:388-409.
1977 Ethnoarchaeology of Hopi and Hopi-Tewa Pottery Making: Styles of Learning. In Experimental Archaeology, edited by D. Ingersoll, J. E. Yellen and W. Macdonald, pp. 378-408. Columbia University Press, New York.
1991 Archaeological Typology and Practical Reality: A Dialectical Approach to Artifact Classification and Sorting. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. (Part IV; skim Part V)
1971 Comment: Sabloff and Smith's "The Importance of Both Analytic and Taxonomic Classification in the Type-Variety System". American Antiquity 36:115-118.
1954a Comment on A. C. Spaulding, "Statistical Techniques for the Discovery of Artifact Types". American Antiquity 19:390-391.
1954b The Type Concept Revisited. American Anthropologist 56:42-53.
1960 The Type-Variety Method of Ceramic Classification as an Indicator of Cultural Phenomena. American Antiquity 25:341-347.
1976 Prehistoric Pottery Analysis and the Ceramics of Barton Ramie in the Belize Valley. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Vol. 18. Harvard University, Cambridge. (H-T Reserve) [read parts I and II, skim intro to part III, read at least one of the sections on a ceramic complex in part III, and skim through part IV]
1972 A Model for Classification and Typology. In Models in Archaeology, edited by D. L. Clarke, pp. 231-274.
1958 Application of the Wheat-Gifford-Wasley Taxonomy to Eastern Ceramics. American Antiquity 24:117-125.
1970 Archaeological Survey in the Lower Yazoo Basin, Mississippi, 1949-1955. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Vol. 60. Harvard University, Cambridge. (read section I, "ceramic typology" copy in Dept. reserve)
1960 The Classification of Artifacts in Archaeology. American Antiquity 25:313-323.
1969 The Importance of Both Analytic and Taxonomic Classification in the Type-Variety System. American Antiquity 34:278-285.
1953 Statistical Techniques for the Discovery of Artifact Types. American Antiquity 18:305-313.
1954 Reply to Ford. American Antiquity 19:391-393.
1958 Ceramic Variety, Type Cluster, and Ceramic System in Southwestern Pottery Analysis. American Antiquity 24:34-47.
1967 Maya Lowland Ceramics: A Report from the 1965 Guatemala City Conference. American Antiquity 32:289-315.
1965 The Doppler Effect and Archaeology: A Consideration of the Spatial Aspects of Seriation. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 21:196-206.
1951 Seriation Analysis of Pottery Collections. In Archaeological Survey in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, 1940-1947, edited by P. Phillips, J. B. Griffin and J. A. Ford, pp. 219-236. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology 25. Harvard University, Cambridge.
1952 Measurements of Some Prehistoric Design Developments in the Southeastern States. Anthropological Papers Vol. 44, Pt. 3. American Museum of Natural History, New York. (pp. 317-323, skim 323-328, 328-342, skim 343-379, 380-382).
1962 A Quantitative Method for Deriving Cultural Chronology. Technical Manual 1. Pan American Union, Washington, D. C. (Part V, pp. 39-55)
1967 Seriation in Archaeology. In American Historical Anthropology: Essays in Honor of Leslie Spier, edited by C. Riley and W. Taylor, pp. 153-195. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.
1961 Stratigraphy and Seriation. American Antiquity 26:324-330.
1991 'Pots of Earth': Forms and Functions of Afro-Caribbean Ceramics. Florida Journal of Anthropology 7:33-49.
1993 The Analysis of Organic Residues and the Study of Pottery Use. In Archaeological Method and Theory, edited by M. B. Schiffer, pp. 247-284, vol. 5. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
1989 Use-Wear Analysis Of White Mountain Redwares at Grasshopper Pueblo, Arizona. Kiva 54:353-360.
1989 Integrating Functional Analyses of Vessels and Sherds Through Models of Ceramic Assemblage Formation. World Archaeology 21:133-147.
1996 Recent Ceramic Analysis: 1. Function, Style, and Origins. Journal of Archaeological Research 4:133-163.
1989 A Provisional Theory of Ceramic Abrasion. American Anthropologist 91:101-115.
1988 Function from Whole Vessel Shape: A Method and an Application to Anasazi Black Mesa, Arizona. American Anthropologist 90:912-922.
1984 Technological Studies of Prehistoric Pottery from Alabama: Physical Properties and Vessel Function. In The Many Dimensions of Pottery, edited by S. van der Leeuw and A. Pritchard, pp. 79-121. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1991 Dimensional Standardization and Producton Scale in Mesoamerican Ceramics. Latin American Antiquity 2:363-37. (Lori)
1993 The Standardization Hypothesis and Ceramic Mass Production: Technological, Compositional, and Metric Indexes of Craft Specialization at Tel Leilan, Syria. American Antiquity 58:60-80. (Dan)
1983 Pots as Tools. In Archaeological Hammers and Theories, edited by J. A. Moore and A. S. Keene, pp. 107-134. Academic Press, New York. (Markus)
1992 Distant Sources, Local Contexts: Interpreting Non-Local Ceramics at Paquime'(Casas Grandes), Chihuahua. Journal of Anthropological Research 48:1-24. (Aline)
1991 Pots and Politics: Ceramic Evidence for the Rise of the Argive State. American Journal of Archaeology 95:79-108. (Jennifer)
1995 Stylistic Variation in Evolutionary Perspective: Inferences from Decorative Diversity and Interassemblage Distance in Illinois Woodland Ceramic Assemblages. American Antiquity 60:7-36. (Adrienne)
1989 Monitoring Mississippian Homestead Occupation Span and Economy Using Ceramic Refuse. American Antiquity 54:288-310. (Francine)
1991 The Ideology of Authority and the Power of the Pot. American Anthropologist 93:919-941. (Crorey)
1991 Specialization, Standardization, and Diversity: A Retrospective. In The Ceramic Legacy of Anna O. Shepard, edited by R. L. Bishop and F. W. Lange, pp. 257-279. University Press of Colorado, Boulder. (Matt)