These often brilliantly colored objects range from an early Florentine jar with oak leaf decoration to a much later Mannerist dish with grotesque ornament

13 color and 111 b/w illustrations

61 duotone illustrations

ISBN 978-0-89236-725-2

Aïcha Ben Abed is director of monuments and sites at the INP

Archaeometry of Pre-Columbian Sites and Artifacts Hoefnagel These often brilliantly colored objectsEdited by David A. Scott and Pieter Meyers Archaeometry is the application of scientific methods and analyses to the study of culture in its archaeological context. The book's twenty essays are garnered from a conference called to study the material culture from North and South America. 432 pages 8 5 16 x 11 11 16 inches 93 b w illustrations ISBN 978 0 89236 249 3 paperback Getty Publications Imprint: Getty Conservation Institute 1994