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 Nor ...

ISBN10: 0892362499, ISBN13: 9780892362493, [publisher: Getty Conservation Institute] Softcover First Edition
[Duarte, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1994]