Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-253) and index.
Pottery and people / James M. Skibo -- Chaco-Chuska connection / James B. Stoltman -- Socialization in American southwest pottery decoration / Patricia L. Crown -- Standardization and specialization / William A. Longacre -- Advantages and disadvantages of vertical-half molding technology / Dean E. Arnold -- Rethinking our assumptions / Gary M. Feinman -- Ceramics and social contexts of food consumption in the Northern Southwest / Barbara J. Mills -- Levels of complexity / Carla M. Sinopoli -- Finely crafted ceramics and distant lands / Barbara L. Stark -- Tecomates, residential mobility, and early formative occupation in coastal lowland Mesoamerica / Philip J. Arnold III -- Exploring the origins of pottery on the Colorado Plateau / James M. Skibo and Eric Blinman -- Looking up at early ceramics in Greece / Karen D. Vitelli -- Behavioral theory of meaning / Michael Brian Schiffer