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By Alasdair Brooks

Published: 2005

This volume offers a readable and practical guide to the archaeological analysis of British ceramics found in Australia from the beginning of European settlement at Sydney through to Federation. Intended for students and experienced researchers alike, it presents the latest in international ceramics research in a manner relevant to Australasian archaeologists.

The core of the book is a glossary of terms and guide to the identification of ware, form, and decoration. Additional chapters present guidelines on field and laboratory methods pertaining to the processing and cataloguing of ceramics; a review of the history of ceramics analysis in Australia, North America, and the United Kingdom; a model for ceramics analysis; and thoughts on the interpretive analysis of ceramics assemblages based on economy, status, function and meaning.

The most common wares, decorations and forms found on Australian colonial sites are illustrated in text and on an accompanying CD. Appendices feature additional information of use in identifying British ceramics in Australia, including a list of known British manufacturers and their dates of operation whose materials have been recovered from Australian sites; a ceramics time line cross-referenced to significant dates from colonial

ISBN 1 920948 31 7

Paper: Perfect bound
87 pp.
49 B&W photographs
13 B&W illustrations
9 tables

Includes CD containing images

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