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Ancient engineering : selective ceramic processing in the Middle Balsas Region of Guerrero, Mexico
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
Previous experimental research into ancient pottery production has proven that potters can produce vessels with varying materials properties, such as thermal shock resistance and permeability. These properties are ...
Technical choice in pottery production : a west Mexican example
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
This thesis identifies the pottery engineering techniques of ancient Mexican potters from the site of La Queseria in the Balsas depression of Guerrero. I used data from petrography, geologic maps, clays from the area, x-ray ...