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title	:	Pot Luck : Adventures in Archaeology
author	:	Lister, Florence Cline.
publisher	:	University of New Mexico
isbn10 | asin	:	082631760X
print isbn13	:	9780826317605
ebook isbn13	:	9780585187822
language	:	English
subject	Lister, Florence Cline, Women archaeologists--Southwest, New--Biography, Indian pottery--Southwest, New--Analysis, Pottery, Ancient--Africa--Analysis, Pottery, Ancient--Spain--Analysis.
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	E78.S7L62 1997eb
ddc	:	930.1/092
subject	:	Lister, Florence Cline, Women archaeologists--Southwest, New--Biography, Indian pottery--Southwest, New--Analysis, Pottery, Ancient--Africa--Analysis, Pottery, Ancient--Spain--Analysis.

Page i Pot Luck

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Page iii Pot Luck Adventures in Archaeology Florence C. Lister University of New Mexico Press Albuquerque

Page iv 1997 by the University of New Mexico Press. All Rights Reserved. Second paperbound printing, 1997. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lister, Florence Cline. Pot luck : adventures in archaeology / Florence C. Lister. 1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 0-8263-1760-X 1. Lister, Florence Cline. 2. Women archaeologistsSouthwest, NewBiography. 3. Indian potterySouthwest, NewAnalysis. 4. Pottery, AncientAfricaAnalysis. 5. Pottery, AncientSpainAnalysis. I. Title. E78.S7L62 1997 930.1'092dc20 [B] 96-10006 CIP

Page v My paean of joy and thanksgiving for Bob, Frank, and Gary, and the potters of the world

Page vii Contents Foreword ix Preface xi How It Began 1 M for Mesoamerica 15 At Home in the Southwest 47 Off to Africa 61 With a Spanish Accent 87 About Bob 165 Index 181

Page ix Foreword In their foreword to Hidden Scholars: Women Anthropologists and the Native American Southwest, Nathalie and Richard Woodbury observe that in the past many women were "too often a part of the background of southwestern studies" and rarely gained the prominence of their male counterparts. Florence Lister always has been reticent to take her place among the women and men who have contributed to a better understanding of human history, but this book helps to set the record straight. Though her contributions are reflected in a long string of books, monographs, and articles, this book differs from earlier works in two significant ways. First, she is the sole author, a role she would not have chosen, but which was caused by the untimely death of Bob, her cherished husband and long-time collaborator. Second, this is a "behind-the-scenes" book that not only gives the reader an understanding of scientific inquiry, but also a good sense of the serendipity that often characterizes good analytical research. The book has other strong merits. Through a variety of exquisitely drawn vignettes, Florence ably conveys the importance of ceramic studies to anthropology. Her effectiveness in doing so comes from having been deeply involved in essentially every task associated with producing, using, and studying pottery. This is a woman who, among other things, has washed potsherds, analyzed paste and temper, thrown and fired pots, cooked frijoles in ollas, and compared notes on maiolica production centers with the small set of world experts on that subject (of which she is a leading member). She also rather effortlessly helps us to see how ceramics can serve as

Page x an interpretive link between multiple facets of past and present societies. Even more significantly, she uses those interpretive links cross-culturally and cross-temporally. Ultimately, we gain a greater awareness and appreciation of the many social commonalities underlying the apparent diversity of this almost worldwide craft and art. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, this is a personal story that charts not only the growth of an archaeological subdisciplineceramic analysisbut also the role played in that process by Florence and her entire family. This is a welcome change from the more common and occasionally ponderous accounts of an individual's research progress. Florence hinted to me that this might be "the last book." Let us hope not. We need writers who not only have the talent to help us understand the scientific process, but who can also make us enthusiastic about that process. Such talent should be encouraged, but more importantly, treasured. R. GWINN VIVIAN ARIZONA STATE MUSEUM TUCSON

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