The archaeology of Fuga Moro Island : new approaches for the isolation and explanation of diagnostic ceramic assemblages in northern Luzon, Philippines / by Bryan E. Sonw and Richard Shutler, Jr. with contributions by John G. Payne [and others]

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This monograph provides the most comprehensive study of earthenware yet recovered through archaeological excavation and survey from Northern Luzon, Philippines. Although the focus is regional, the research addresses a problem which is common to much of Southeast Asia; namely the difficulty of differentiation among undecorated earthenware in order to isolate culturally diagnosis assemblages. It lays out in detail an integrated analysis of stylistics, morphology, technology and raw material and demonstrates how such an approach is useful in revealing patterns of ceramic variability hitherto unrecognized. most importantly, and for the first time, the data obtained permit association of archaelogically recovered earthenware to major ethnographic groups and regions within northern Luzon and reveals the existence of three major earthenware manufacturing traditions of considerable duration. --Back cover of the book.