LEADER 03433nam 22004695 450 001 9910822031003321 005 20240516013738.0 010 $a1-4757-9274-3 024 7 $a10.1007/978-1-4757-9274-4 035 $a(CKB)2660000000021724 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-4757-9274-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3086991 035 $a(EXLCZ)992660000000021724 100 $a20130611d1991 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aApproaches to archaeological ceramics /$fCarla M. Sinopoli 205 $aFirst edition 1991. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cSpringer US :$cImprint: Springer,$d1991. 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 237 pages) $cillustrations 311 0 $a0-306-43852-6 311 0 $a0-306-43575-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1 Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics -- 2 Defining Ceramics -- 3 Studying Archaeological Ceramics -- 4 Using Ceramics to Answer Questions: I. Ethnographic Data, Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology, and Ceramic Chronologies -- 5 Using Ceramics to Answer Questions: II. Ceramic Use and Ceramic Production and Distribution -- 6 Using Ceramics to Answer Questions: III. Ceramics and Social Organization -- 7 Using Ceramics to Answer Questions: IV. Ceramics and Political Organization -- 8 Directions in Ceramic Research -- References. 330 $aMore than any other category of evidence, ceramics ofters archaeologists their most abundant and potentially enlightening source of information on the past. Being made primarily of day, a relatively inexpensive material that is available in every region, ceramics became essential in virtually every society in the world during the past ten thousand years. The straightfor­ ward technology of preparing, forming, and firing day into hard, durable shapes has meant that societies at various levels of complexity have come to rely on it for a wide variety of tasks. Ceramic vessels quickly became essential for many household and productive tasks. Food preparation, cooking, and storage-the very basis of settled village life-could not exist as we know them without the use of ceramic vessels. Often these vessels broke into pieces, but the virtually indestructible quality of the ceramic material itself meant that these pieces would be preserved for centuries, waiting to be recovered by modem archaeologists. The ability to create ceramic material with diverse physical properties, to form vessels into so many different shapes, and to decorate them in limitless manners, led to their use in far more than utilitarian contexts. Some vessels were especially made to be used in trade, manufacturing activities, or rituals, while ceramic material was also used to make other items such as figurines, models, and architectural ornaments. 606 $aArchaeology$xMethodology 606 $aArchaeology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X13000 615 0$aArchaeology$xMethodology. 615 14$aArchaeology. 676 $a930.1 676 $a930.1028 700 $aSinopoli$b Carla M$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0594505 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822031003321 996 $aApproaches to archaeological ceramics$9995611 997 $aUNINA