x+421 pages with diagrams, photographs, charts, tables, graphs, figures, illustrations and maps. Quarto (11 3/4" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Foreword by Miguel Angel Corzo. First edition.Contents: "The Materials Science of Material Culture: Examples from the Andean Past" by Heather Lechtman; "Pre-Columbian Pottery: Research in the Maya Region" by Ronald Bishop; "Kiln Firing at Batan Grande: Today and in Formative Times" by Ursel Wagner, Rubert Gebhard, Enver Murad, Josef Riederer, Izumi Shimada and Fritz Wagner; "Ceramics Among the Hohokam: Modeling Social Organization and Exchange" by David R Abbot and David M Schaller; "New World Obsidian: Recent Investigations" by Michael D Glascock; "Obsidian Artifacts from Oaxaca, Mexico: Source Identification and Hydration Dating" by J Michael Elam, Michael Glascock and Hector Neff; "Obsidian from Pueblo Grande, Arizona: Modeling Social and Economic Patterns in Lithic Procurement" by Jane Peterson, Douglas Mitchell and M Steven Shackley; "Beads from Sipan: A Functional Analysis" by Leonard Gorelick and John Gwinnett; "Silver and Lead in the Late Preshitory of the Mantario Valley, Peru" by Ellen G Howe and Ulrich Petersen; "Pre-Hispanic Copper Alloy Production at Batan Grande, Peru: Interpretation of the Analytical Data for Ore Samples" by J F Merkel, I Shimada, C P Swann and R Doonan; "Native Copper Technology and Society in Eastern North America" by S Terry Childs; "Chemical Seriation of Northeastern ...

J. Paul Getty Trust Publications 1994 Illustrated. Trade paperback Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Like new condition; never used. Oversize paperback. 432 p. Contains: Illustrations. Proceedings of a Symposium Organized by the UCLA Institute of Archaeology and The Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, 1992.