Ceramics and Civilization, Volume VII

Ceramics and Civilization, Volume VII
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Publisher : Wiley-American Ceramic Society
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Download or read book Ceramics and Civilization, Volume VII written by Prudence M. Rice and published by Wiley-American Ceramic Society. This book was released on 1997 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 14 papers presented in a one day symposia held at the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, Indianapolis, Indiana, April 1996. The contributors explore the variability of kilns both chronologically and geographically, stressing new data to emerge from recent archeological excavations at sites in North, Central, and South America. Topics in firing structures, brick and tile making and glass production are explored in the areas of neolithic Greece, the third millennium Indus valley, imperial China, the US Southwest, coastal Peru, during the Classic period of Mesoamerica, and in Renaissance Italy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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