Prehistoric Pottery Analysis and Ceramics of BartonRamie in the Belize Valley

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. Gifford, his wife Carol, and Temple University artist and Anthropology Laboratory Administrator Muriel Kirkpatrick jointly edited, wrote, illustrated, produced, and disseminated this scholarly journal from 1961 to 1996. Issues after 1973 and the last two issues (a subject index to the journal and a compilation of Maya ceramic nomenclature) were produced after Gifford s death by Carol A. Gifford and Muriel Kirkpatrick.

Condition: Light rubbing to extremities else very good.