Ceramic Petrography and Hopewell Interaction /

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Petrography is the microscopic examination of thin sections of pottery to determine their precise mineralogical composition. In this groundbreaking work, James B. Stoltman applies quantitative as well as qualitative methods to the petrography of Native American ceramics. As explained in Ceramic Petr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stoltman, James B., 1935-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Petrology in archaeology.
Indians of North America > Antiquities.
Indian pottery > Analysis.
Hopewell culture.
Ceramics > Analysis.
HISTORY > North America.
HISTORY > Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Hopewell.
Indiens d'Amerique > Amerique du Nord > Antiquites.
Ceramique industrielle > Analyse.
Petrologie en archeologie.
Culture Hopewell.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Methodology
  • Ohio Hopewell
  • The Mann site in Posey County, Indiana
  • Southern Illinois
  • The Blue Ridge province of North Carolina and Tennessee
  • The Appalachian plateau and ridge and valley provinces of northwest Georgia
  • The coastal plain of Georgia and Florida
  • Limestone-tempered pottery in middle Woodland contexts in the southeast and the Ohio Valley region
  • Pinson Mounds revisited
  • The sources of the "possibly nonlocal" vessels recovered from the Ohio Valley sites
  • Summary and conclusions.

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