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xxiv, 559 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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.
Book review by Gordon Bronitsky, in American Indian art magazine, 0192-9968, Vol. 13, no. 4 (autumn 1988), p. 67-68.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-542) and index.