Description: This cohesive edited volume showcases data collected from more than seven thousand ceramic artifacts including pottery, figurines, clay pipes, and other objects from sites across South America.
Brief description: Michael D. Glascock is a research professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia's MU-Research Reactor. He is the coeditor of Archaeological Chemistry: Analytical Techniques and Archaeological Interpretation.
Review Quotes: This volume shows the importance of well-designed studies and the advantages of combining different analytical approaches to reach a higher understanding of not only the data but also the producers, the consumers, and the society they lived in.--Isabelle Druc, Latin American Antiquity