Daniel Albero Santacreu presents a wide overview of certain aspects of the pottery analysis and
summarizes most of the methodological and theoretical information currently applied in
archaeology in order to develop wide and deep analysis of ceramic pastes. The book provides an
adequate framework for understanding the way pottery production is organised and clarifies the
meaning and role of the pottery in archaeological and traditional societies. The goal of this
book is to encourage reflection especially by those researchers who face the analysis of
ceramics for the first time by providing a background for the generation of their own research
and to formulate their own questions depending on their concerns and interests. The three-part
structure of the book allows readers to move easily from the analysis of the reality and
ceramic material culture to the world of the ideas and theories and to develop a dialogue
between data and their interpretation. Daniel Albero Santacreu is aLecturer Assistant in the
University of the Balearic Islands member of the Research Group Arqueo UIB and the Ceramic
Petrology Group. He has carried out the analysis of ceramics from several prehistoric societies
placed in the Western Mediterranean as well as the study of handmade pottery from contemporary
ethnic groups in Northeast Ghana.
