Although plastic and metal vessels offer significant advantages and have almost universally supplanted ceramics throughout the world, pottery fragments are one of the most ubiquitous artifacts in the archaeological record. The southwestern region of Ethiopia is one of the few places in the world where locally made pottery is still the dominant choice for everyday domestic use. The Gamo people continue to produce and use pottery for transporting water, cooking, storing, and serving. Ethnoarchaeology undertaken in a society where people still use low-fired ceramics in daily life provides a...
Although plastic and metal vessels offer significant advantages and have almost universally supplanted ceramics throughout the world, pottery fragment...
A work that redresses the skewed conception and approach to craft production focused on separate, single medium crafts, and expresses a need for a balanced evaluation of the roles of producer and consumer, and the importance of properly contextualized workshop excavations.
A work that redresses the skewed conception and approach to craft production focused on separate, single medium crafts, and expresses a need for a bal...
Throughout history, warfare and raiding forced captives from one society into another, forming an almost invisible stratum of many people without kin and largely outside the social systems in which they lived. Invisible Citizens explores the profound effects this mingling of societies and customs had on cultural development around the world. The contributors to this volume explore the remarkable range in the conditions and experiences of captives, from abject drudge to quasi kinswoman and from war captive to sexual concubine. Developing methods for identifying captives in the...
Throughout history, warfare and raiding forced captives from one society into another, forming an almost invisible stratum of many people without kin ...
Behavioral archaeology, defined as the study of people-object interactions in all times and places, emerged in the 1970s, in large part because of the innovative work of Michael Schiffer and colleagues. This volume provides an overview of how behavioral archaeology has evolved and how it has affected the field of archaeology at large.
The contributors to this volume are Schiffer s former students, from his first doctoral student to his most recent. This generational span has allowed for chapters that reflect Schiffer s research from the 1970s to 2012. They are iconoclastic and creative...
Behavioral archaeology, defined as the study of people-object interactions in all times and places, emerged in the 1970s, in large part because of ...
Although most ceramic studies describe vessel production and use, the causes and rates of pottery discard are often neglected in archaeological studies. Michael Shott presents analytical methods for determining pottery use life and demonstrates why use life should not be overlooked.
Although most ceramic studies describe vessel production and use, the causes and rates of pottery discard are often neglected in archaeological studie...