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Design Analysis of Painted Pottery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Patty Jo Watson
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Abstract

This paper comprises a survey of selected publications describing various kinds of design analyses applied to pottery from two regions of the world that are relatively well known archaeologically: the U.S. Southwest and the Near East. My purpose is simply to demonstrate some progress, some problems, and some potentialities of this form of archaeological analysis as it has been used in these two geographic areas where painted pottery makes up a large and significant proportion of the prehistoric record.

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American Antiquity , Volume 42 , Issue 3 , July 1977 , pp. 381 - 393
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1977 

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