Pottery Ethnoarchaeology in the Michoacan Sierra

Michael J. Shott is a professor of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Akron. His research focuses on methods of stone-tool analysis and how the archaeological record formed. He has published three monographs and several edited volumes, including Works in Stone: Contemporary Perspectives on Lithic Analysis (University of Utah Press, 2015).

"I found this to be an exceptionally clearly formulated and presented study and was highly impressed with the author's rigor in carrying it out. As he points out, this is hard and inglorious work that needs to be done if we are to understand the archaeological record." -J. Theodore PeNa, professor of Roman archaeology, University of California, Berkeley, and director, Pompeii Artifact Life History Project, Pompeii, Italy "Michael J. Shott is an eminent authority on cultural formation processes. This data-rich ethnoarchaeological study of MichoacAn domestic ceramics sheds new light on quantitative transformations from systemic context to archaeological context. Shott's empirically grounded and well-qualified generalizations provide archaeologists who study ceramic assemblages worldwide with essential analytical tools. This spectacular book, Shott's labor of love, is truly a magnum opus." -Michael Brian Schiffer, author of Archaeology's Footprints in the Modern World