Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology
by William A. Longacre
Publisher: University of Arizona Press 2016
ISBN-13: 9780816548774
Number of pages: 318
Description:
Drawing on projects undertaken around the world, in the Phillipines, East Africa, Mesoamerica, India, in both traditional and complex societies, the contributors focus on identifying social and behavioral sources of ceramic variation to show how analogical reasoning is fundamental to archaeological interpretation.
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