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100			_aPrudence M Rice
245			_aPottery analysis _b : a sourcebook _c/Prudence M Rice
250			_a2nd ed
260			_a Chicago _b:University of Chicago Press _c, 2015.
300			_axxxii,561 Pages _c;25 cm.
365			_b3834
505			_aPottery 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.
520			_aA 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.
650			_aChemical Engineering
655			_aCeramics _bPottery--Analysis
700			_aPrudence M Rice
942			_cBOOK