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Ceramics and man.

Author: Frederick R Matson; Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
Publisher: Chicago, Aldine Pub. Co. [1965]
Series: Viking Fund publications in anthropology, no. 41.
Edition/Format:   Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Matson, Frederick R. (Frederick Rognald), 1912-
Ceramics and man.
Chicago, Aldine Pub. Co. [1965]
(OCoLC)593674873
Material Type: Conference publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Frederick R Matson; Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
OCLC Number: 293624
Notes: Papers and discussion transcriptions of a symposium organized by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and held at Burg Wartenstein, Austria, Sept. 2-12, 1961.
Description: xii, 301 p. illus. 28 cm.
Contents: Ceramics and man : a cultural perspective / Robert W. Ehrich --
Ethnologist and the American Indian potter / S. Linné --
Sociology of pottery : questions and hypotheses arising from contemporary Mexican work / George M. Foster --
Rio Grande glaze-paint pottery : a test of petrographic analysis / Anna O. Shepard --
Caribbean ceramics : a study in method and in theory / Irving Rouse --
Ceramic complexity and cultural development : the Eastern United States as a case study / James B. Griffin --
Aspects of pottery in temperate Europe before the Roman Empire / H. W. M. Hodges --
Early ceramics in the Netherlands : two problems / J. D. Van der Waals --
Influence of metalworking on prehistoric pottery : some observations on Iron Age pottery of the Alpine region / Walter Trachsler --
Precursors of polychrome painted pottery : some examples from the prehistory of Switzerland / Walter Trachsler --
Ethnographical observations in North Africa and archeological interpretation / Hélène Balfet --
Pottery found in the tomb of Neferwptah and its significance / Zaky Iskander --
Ceramics and the supernatural : cult and burial evidence in the Aegean world / Saul S. Weinberg --
Ceramic ecology : an approach to the study of the early cultures of the Near East / Frederick R. Matson --
Anatolian pottery as a basis for cultural syntheses / James Mellaart --
Beginnings of pottery-making in the Near East / Ruth Amiran --
Some ceramic contributions to a knowledge of culture in prehistoric Iran / Louis Vanden Berghe --
Functions of pottery in Southeast Asia : from the present to the past / Wilhelm G. Solheim --
New York planning conference / Irving Rouse --
Ceramic queries / Frederick R. Matson.
Series Title: Viking Fund publications in anthropology, no. 41.
Responsibility: Edited by Frederick R. Matson.

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