Introduction --
Introduction to the Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Ceramic Analysis / Alice M. W. Hunt --
History of Scientific Research / M.S. Tite --
Research Design and Data Analysis --
Designing Rigorous Research: Integrating Science and Archaeology / Jaume Buxeda i Garrigos & Marisol Madrid i Fernandez --
Evaluating Data: Uncertainty in Ceramic Analysis / Roberto Hazenfratz Marks --
Statistical Modelling for Ceramic Analysis / Gulsebnem Bishop --
Data Recycling: Working with Published and Unpublished Ceramic Compositional Data / Matthew Boulanger --
Foundational Concepts --
Ceramic Raw Materials / Giuseppe Montana --
Ceramic Manufacture: The Chaine Operatoire Approach / Valentine Roux --
The Organization of Pottery Production: Towards a Relational Approach / Kim Duistermaat --
'Provenance' Studies: Productions and Compositional Groups / Yona Waksman --
Mineralogical and Chemical Alteration / Gerwulf Schneider --
Formal Analysis and Typological Classification in the Study of Ancient Pottery / Daniel Albero Santacreu, Manuel Calvo Trias, & Jaume Garcia Rossello --
Fabric Description of Archaeological Ceramics / Ian Whitbread --
Analytical Drawing / Prabodh Shirvalker --
Evaluating Ceramic Provenance --
Petrography: Optical Microscopy / Dennis Braekmans & Patrick Degryse --
Ceramic Micropalaeontology / Ian Wilkinson, Patrick Quinn, Mark Williams, Jeremy Taylor, & Ian Whitbread --
Electron Probe Microanalysis (EPMA) / Corina Ionescu & Volker Hock --
Isotope Analysis / Bettina Wiegand --
X-ray Powder Diffraction (XRD) / Robert B. Heimann --
X-ray Fluorescence-Energy Dispersive (ED-XRF) and Wavelength Dispersive (WD-XRF) Spectrometry / Mark Hall --
Handheld Portable Energy-Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (pXRF) / Elisabeth Holmqvist --
Proton Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE) and its Applications for Ceramic Analysis / Marcia Rizzutto & Manfredo Tabacniks --
Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) and Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) / Mark Golitko & Laure Dussubieux --
Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA) in the Study of Archaeological Ceramics / Leah D. Minc & Johannes H. Sterba --
Synchrotron Radiation / Alan F. Greene --
Investigating Ceramic Manufacture --
Ethnography / Kent Fowler --
Experimental Firing and Re-firing / Malgorzata Daszkiewicz & Lara Maritan --
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR) in Archaeological Ceramic Analysis / Shlomo Shoval --
Raman Spectroscopy and the Study of Ceramic Manufacture: Possibilities, Results, and Challenges / Jolien Van Pevenage & Peter Vandenabeele --
X-radiography of Archaeological Ceramics / Ina Berg & Janet Ambers --
Organic Inclusions / Marta Mariotti Lippi & Pasquino Pallecchi --
Assessing Vessel Function --
Formal Typology of Iberian Ceramic Vesels by Morphometric Analysis / Ana L. Martinez-Carillo & Juan Antonio Barcelo --
Mechanical and Thermal Properties / Noemi Suzanne Muller --
Assessing Vessel Function by Organic Residue Analysis / Hans Barnard & Jelmer W. Eerkens --
Dating Ceramic Assemblages --
Typology and Classification / Eugenio Bortolini --
Direct Dating Methods / Sophie Blain & Christopher Hall.

The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Ceramic Analysis draws together topics and methodologies essential for the socio-cultural, mineralogical, and geochemical analysis of archaelogical ceramic. Ceramic is one of the most complex and ubiquitous archaeomaterials in the archaeological record: it occurs around the world and through time in almost every culture and context, from building materials and technological installations to utilitarian wares and votive figurines. For more than 100 years, archaeologists have used ceramic analysis to answer complex questions about economy, subsistence, technological innovation, social organization, and dating. The volume is structured around the themes "Research design and data analysis," "Foundational concepts," "Evaluating ceramic provenance," "Investigating ceramic manufacture," "Assessing vessel function," and "Dating ceramic assemblages." It provides a common vocabulary and offers practical tools and guidelines for ceramic analysis using techniques and methodologies ranging from network analysis and typology to rehydroxylation dating and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Each chapter provides the theoretical background and practical guidelines, such as cost and destructiveness of analysis, for each technique, as well as detailed case studies illustrating the application and interpretation of analytical data for answering anthropological questions