The Materials Science of Material Culture: Examples from the Andean Past / Heather Lechtman
Pre-Columbian Pottery: Research in the Maya Region / Ronald L. Bishop
Kiln Firing at Batan Grande: Today and in Formative Times / Ursel Wagner, Rupert Gebhard, Enver Murad, Josef Riederer, Izumi Shimada and Fritz Wagner
Ceramics Among the Hohokam: Modeling Social Organization and Exchange / David R. Abbot and David M. Schaller
New World Obsidian: Recent Investigations / Michael D. Glascock
Obsidian Artifacts from Oaxaca, Mexico: Source Identification and Hydration Dating / J. Michael Elam, Michael D. Glascock and Hector Neff
Obsidian from Pueblo Grande, Arizona: Modeling Social and Economic Patterns in Lithic Procurement / Jane Peterson, Douglas R. Mitchell and M. Steven Shackley
Beads from Sipan: A Functional Analysis / Leonard Gorelick and John Gwinnett
Silver and Lead in the Late Prehistory of the Mantaro Valley, Peru / Ellen G. Howe and Ulrich Petersen
Pre-Hispanic Copper Alloy Production at Batan Grande, Peru: Interpretation of the Analytical Data for Ore Samples / J.F. Merkel, I. Shimada, C.P. Swann and R. Doonan
Native Copper Technology and Society in Eastern North America / S. Terry Childs
Chemical Seriation of Northeastern North American Archaeological Sites Using Copper Artifacts / R.G.V. Hancock, L.A. Pavlish, R.M. Farquhar, P.J. Julig and W.A. Fox