Prehis Pot Analys by Gifford, James C - 1976

xvi+359 pages with color frontispiece, charts, tables, figures, drawings, maps, folding table, illustrations, appendix, bibliography and index. Folio (12" x 9") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Special section or assisted by Robert J Sharer, Joseph W Ball, Arlen F Chase, Carol A Gifford, Muriel Kirkpatrick and George H Myer. Compiled by Carol A Gifford. Foreword by Gordon R Willey. Volume 18 of Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. First edition. Gifford became a Research Archaeologist at the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1959-1964) and then a faculty member at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1964-1973). He was one of the primary authors of the type:variety-mode concept for analyzing pottery. This descriptive-chronological approach became increasingly important to the study of ceramics after it was developed in the pages of the journal Ceramica de Cultura Maya et al.… Read More

1976. Mesoamerica, Journals, Native Americans. Harvard University/Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Memoir Vol. 18. Very good wrappers/paper 359p. Please allow for additional overseas postage