@article {9791,
	title = {Rural Ceramic Manufacture in Precolumbian Honduras: The Application of Petrographic Analysis to the Study of the Cha{\^\i}nes Op{\'e}ratoires},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology},
	volume = {36},
	year = {2012},
	pages = {166-187},
	abstract = {<p>This study presents a preliminary attempt to examine stages within the cha{\^\i}ne op{\'e}ratoire of Late Classic (650\&ndash;900 C.E.) ceramic manufacture at the Precolumbian site of Rancho del Rio, Honduras. Materials recovered from patio, house mound, and midden excavations in a rural setting, including finished vessel sherds and potstands, in addition to briquettes made from local clay sources, are examined through thin section petrography. This attempt to outline technological chains and styles allows the classification and understanding of behaviour and ultimately, cognition, through the identification of the series of units of actions that bring a material from its natural state to a fabricated form.</p>},
	author = {Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown}
}
