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Art and Archaeology of Challuabamba, Ecuador
Challuabamba (chī-wa-bamba)—now a developing suburb of Cuenca, the principal city in the southern highlands of Ecuador—has been known for a century as an ancient site that produced exceptionally fine pottery in great quantities. Suspecting that Challuabamban ceramics might provide a link between earlier, preceramic culture and later, highly developed Formative period art, Terence Grieder led an archaeological investigation of the site between 1995 and 2001. In this book, he and the team of art historians and archaeologists who excavated at Challuabamba present their findings, which establish the community's importance as a center in a network of trade and artistic influence that extende...
The Materials and Technology of Glazed Ceramics from the Deh Luran Plain, Southwestern Iran
This study examines the factors that govern technological change by focussing on a single industry: the production of glazed ceramics in Mesopotamia. How does innovation appear in any technological system? What brings change to a particular industry? Since technological change is socially contextualized, we must investigate how innovation appears within a particular technology and how that innovation is replicated and disseminated through social networks. Glazed ceramics recovered during the archaeological survey of the Deh Luran Plain, located in southwestern Iran, here serve as the material basis on which the history of lead-based glaze technology is reconstructed. This large ceramic assemblage is described in detail, and subjected to a full complement of archaeometric techniques, combined with historical analysis and independent dating. The history of the development of lead-based glaze over time is thus examined in light of the von Hippie model of technological innovation and the incorporation of such innovations into productive industry.
Prisoners' Self-help Litigation Manual
Clear, comprehensive, practical advice provides prisoners with everything they need to know on conditions of confinement, civil liberties in prison, procedural due process, the legal system, how to litigate, conducting effective legal research, and writing legal documents. This new edition is updated to include the most relevant prisoners' rights topics and approaches to litigation, types of legal remedies, and how to effectively use those remedies.
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Pendejo Cave
This account of the archaeology of a cave in southern New Mexico makes a dramatic contribution to the ongoing debate over how long human beings have lived in the Americas. The findings presented here show that human settlement may go back as far as 75,000 years before the present, whereas the long-accepted Clovis dates showed humans only about 12,000 years ago. MacNeish and his colleagues subjected the cave, its environs, and its contents to rigorous interdisciplinary investigation. The first section of this volume comprises their reports on the changing environment of the area. The second section concentrates on the excavation of the cave's layers, presenting the results of radiocarbon dating and describing the evidence of human occupation, including friction skin prints and human hair. The third section discusses the cultural implications of the materials recovered and suggests how the ancient peoples may have exploited the changing environment and developed different ways of life throughout the Americas before the time of Clovis man. No serious discussion of early inhabitants in the New World can disregard the findings presented in this monumental work of scholarship.
Materializing Colonial Identities in Clay
Offers case studies of colonoware in Indigenous, enslaved, and European contexts in the Southeast
