A consideration of material culture style has been a part of archaeology almost from the
beginning. However, only in the past few decades have many archaeologists begun to …

The enormous literature on potters and pottery reflects the diverse orientations and concerns
of travelers, colonial administrators, ceramists, art historians, classical archaeologists …

The aim of Artefacts as Categories is to ask what we can learn about a society from the
variability of the objects it produces. Dr Miller presents a comprehensive analysis of the …

Certain aspects of what archaeologists have traditionally called stylistic variation can be
understood as the result of the introduction of selectively neutral variation into social …

As early as the first millennium AD, the Philippine archipelago formed the easternmost edge
of a vast network of Chinese, Southeast Asian, Indian, and Arab traders. Items procured …

In a recent article in this journal, Binford (1981) called attention to a counterproductive"
Pompeii premise" and attributed it to the present author. Drawing on two case studies of …

Contradictory programmatic statements have increased uncertainty about the nature and
roles of theory in archaeology. However, a framework can be constructed that ties together …

This study examines cultural sources of variation in ceramic compositional patterning in two
pottery-making villages of the highland Philippines. In Dalupa, many potters are part-time …

Archaeologists have been developing artifact typologies to understand cultural categories
for as long as the discipline has existed. Dwight Read examines these attempts to …

2-11. View facing south to back side of Tower House 34 3-1. Map of Tsegi Phase occupation
(aD 1250-1300) showing location of sites worked on in the course of the project 38 3-2 …