一般注記Foreword / W. David Kingery -- Preface / Prudence M. Rice -- Introduction and overview / Prudence M. Rice -- Operational principles of ceramic kilns / W. David Kingery -- Inferring firing procedures form sherds : early Greek kilns / Karen D. Vietlli -- Pottery firing structures (klins) of theIndus civilization during the third millennium B.C. / Heather M.-L. Miller -- The Jingdezhen egg-shaped kiln / Jing Qiong Hu and H.T. Li -- Technology and organization of Anasazi trench kilns / Eric Blinman and Clint Swink -- The virability and evolution of Prehispanic kilns on the Peruvian coast / Izumi Shimada -- Ceramic firing in ancient and modern Oaxaca / Gary M. Feinman and Andrew Balkansky -- Prehispanic kilns at Matacapan, Veracruz, Mexico / Christopher A. Pool -- The fires without and fires within : evidence for ceramic production facilities at the late classic site of La Sierra, Naco Valley, Northwestern Honduras, and its environs / Patricia A. Urban, E. Christian Wells, and Marne T. Ausec -- Brick and tile making in Spanish California with related old and new world examples / Julia G. Costello -- An integrative review and examination of glass furnace technology in renaissance Italy / W. Patrick McCray -- Unusual old kilns / O.J. Whitemore -- Concluding comments / Prudence M. Rice.
"Proceedings of the Prehistory and History of Ceramic Kilns, held at the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society in Indianapolis, Indiana, April 14-17, 1996" --T.p. verso.