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Reconstructing Ceramic Assemblages: An Experiment to Derive the Morphology and Capacity of Parent Vessels from Sherds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Jonathon E. Ericson  and
Suzanne P. De Atley
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Abstract

A set of modern Tijuana vessels has been used to test some solutions to problems involved in the reconstruction of the morphology and capacity of vessels in ceramic assemblages. The technique employs morphological criteria to partition and reconstruction the modern assemblage. The results of these experiments are described.

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American Antiquity , Volume 41 , Issue 4 , October 1976 , pp. 484 - 489
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1976

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