Lot 08100

RICE Prudence, “Pottery Analysis: A Sourcebook”, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 2005. Paperback edition (1st in 1987), in big 8vo, p. xxiv, 559. With numerous B/W images and graphics in text. A rich and comprehensive sourcebook, PotteryAnalysis draws together diverse approaches to the study of pottery—archaeological, ethnographic, stylistic, functional, and physicochemical. The author uses pottery as a starting point for insights into people and culture and examines in detail the methods for studying these fired clay vessels that have been used worldwide from prehistoric times to the present. Original soft covers, illustrated. Like New.