TY - BOOK AU - Prudence M Rice AU - Prudence M Rice TI - Pottery analysis: : a sourcebook SN - 9780226923215 U1 - 666.39 RIC PY - 2015/// CY - Chicago PB - :University of Chicago Press KW - Chemical Engineering KW - Ceramics KW - Pottery--Analysis N1 - Pottery and Its History -- Pottery and Ceramics: Definitions and Products -- History of Pottery and Ceramics -- Pottery and Ceramics in the Old World -- The Near East -- The Far East -- Europe and the Mediterranean -- Pottery in the New World -- Overview of Pottery Studies -- The Raw Materials of Pottery Making -- Clays: Their Origin and Definitions -- Earth Materials -- Feldspars, Weathering, and Clay Origins -- Definitions of Clays -- Depositional Situation of Clays -- Granulometry of Clays -- Chemical Definitions of Clays -- Mineralogical Definitions of Clays -- Phyllosilicates -- Lath-Structure Clays -- Commercial Uses of Clays -- Functional Definitions of Clays -- Properties of Clays I: The Clay/Water System -- The Clay/Water System -- Plasticity -- Factors Influencing Plasticity -- Measuring Plasticity -- Drying and Shrinkage -- Water in the System -- Processes of Drying and Shrinkage -- Drying Defects and Green Strength -- Measuring Shrinkage -- Inclusions and Impurities -- Coarse Inclusions -- Colloids, Ions, and Organics -- Properties of Clays II: Firing Behavior -- Variables of Firing -- Physical and Chemical Changes in Firing -- Loss of Volatiles -- Changes in the Clay Minerals -- Changes in Inclusions and Impurities -- Quartz -- Feldspar -- Calcium -- Glaze Formation -- The Thermal Reaction Sequence -- The Fired Product: Stresses and Defects -- Some Considerations of Firing Technology -- Pottery Manufacture and Use -- Pottery Manufacturing Technology: An Ethnographic Overview -- Ethnographic Pottery Studies N2 - A comprehensive sourcebook, drawing 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 ER -