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Introduction / Gordon Bronitsky -- A ceramics manifesto / Gordon Bronitsky -- pt. 1. Ceramic production : the potter's perspective: Shell-tempered pottery and the Fort Ancient potter / Frederick R. Matson ; Functional factors of mica and ceramic burnsihing / Dwight Wallace ; Some techniques used by potters of Tell Hadidi during the second millennium B.C. / Abraham van As -- pt. 2. Production processes: Thermal expansion measurement and the estimation of prehistoric pottery firing temperatures / Tinothy Kaiser and William Lucius ; Simple methods of chemical analysis of pottery : a forgotten art / Vishwas D. Gogte ; Trace elements in the porcelain of the royal kiln at Jiaotan / Li hu Hou -- pt. 3. Ceramic technology and socioeconomic systems / Clays to artifacts : resource selection in African Early Iron Age iron-making technologies / S. Terry Childs -- pt. 4. Ceramic analysis and the study of formation processes: A materials science perspective on hunter-gatherer pottery / Kenneth C. Reid -- pt. 5. The archaeologist and the achaeometrician : larger questions: A research design for ceramic use-wear analysis at Grasshopper Pueblo / Michael B. Schiffer ; Productive specialization, archaeometry, and interpretation / Fred Plog and Steadman Upham ; Tinkering with technology : pitfalls and prospects for anthropological archaeology / Gary M. Feinman.