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Potsherds: An Introduction To the Study of Prehistoric Southwestern Ceramics and Their Uses in Historic Reconstruction (1953)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Harold S. Colton.

The purpose of this little book is to outline in a concise form the methods used to make bits of broken pottery contribute to the history of the Southwest. In the interpretation of archaeological finds, pottery plays a most important role because of its wide distribution in time and space, its resistance to atmospheric weathering, and the number of culture traits that can be observed in pottery fragments. The manufacture of pottery is an old human activity. In the Old World pottery has been made...