Ceramics of the Indigenous Cultures of South America

Michael D. Glascock is a research professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia's MU-Research Reactor. He is the coeditor of Archaeological Chemistry: Analytical Techniques and Archaeological Interpretation. Hector Neff is a professor of anthropology at California State University, Long Beach. He is the coeditor of Laser Ablation ICP-MS in Archaeological Research (UNM Press). Kevin J. Vaughn is the dean of UCR Extension and is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of The Ancient Andean Village: Marcaya in Prehispanic Nasca.

This volume shows the importance of well-designed studies and the advantages of combining different analytical approaches to reach a higher understanding of not only the data but also the producers, the consumers, and the society they lived in.--Isabelle Druc, Latin American Antiquity