| The geographical scope of this bibliography is southern California, from San Bernardino County south to the U.S./Mexico border. Ethnographic reports relevant to prehistoric ceramics also include information from groups whose traditional territories straddled California’s borders with Arizona and Baja California.
Arkush, Brooke S.1989 — Review of “Archaeological Investigations at CA-RIV-1179, CA-RIV-2823, and CA-RIV-2827, La Quinta, Riverside County, California,” Mark Q. Sutton and Philip J. Wilke, eds. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 11:281-283. (Criticism of discussion of ceramics; online.)
Barrows, David Prescott
1900 — The Ethno-Botany of the Coahuilla Indians of Southern California. University of Chicago Press. (Reprinted in 1967 with introductory sections by Harry W. Lawton, Lowell John Bean, and William Bright, Malki Museum Press, Banning California; comments on Cahuilla pottery making, pp. 45-47; online.)
Begole, Robert S.
1978 — A Fired Clay Projectile Point. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 14(4):43-44. (Triangular, concave-base point from Borrego Valley.)
Benedict, Ruth Fulton
1924 — A Brief Sketch of Serrano Culture. American Anthropologist 26:366-392. (Comments on Serrano pottery-making, p. 386; online.)
Boxt, Matthew A., and Brian Dervin Dillon
2013 — Prehistoric Pottery of Coastal Los Angeles County. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 47(3-4):45-87. (Assemblage from LAN-2630 in Long Beach with 55 associated radiocarbon assays is “the best-dated excavated pottery collection from southern California” and “the northernmost extension of Southern California Brown Ware”; online)
Brown, Robert S., and Franklin Fenenga
2005 — Clay Figurines from Joshua Tree National Monument, California. In Archaeology without Limits: Papers in Honor of Clement W. Meighan, edited by Brian D. Dillon and Matthew A. Boxt, pp. 127-143. Labyrinthos, Lancaster, California. (Two anthropomorphic figurines.)
Brown, Robert S., and T. A. Freeman
2012 — Clay Figurines from the Walker Ranch Site, CA-RIV-333, Riverside County, California. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 46(3):19-39. (Fifteen fragments from a late prehistoric/protohistoric site; online.)
Bryan, Bruce
1964 — A Clay Figurine Found in Southern California. The Masterkey 28(2):66-69.
Burns, Gregory R., and Barry J. Olson, Jr.
2013 — Great Basin Ceramic Distribution Patterns in San Bernardino County. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 47(3-4):105-119. (GIS analysis of ceramic site associations with clay sources, vegetation communities, and other archaeological attributes; online)
Burton, Margie
2009 — Using Pottery Collections with Limited Provenience to Explore Pre-contact Ceramic Traditions: An Example from the Anza-Borrego Desert. Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology 21:215-225. (Surface collections used to reevaluate previous classifications and interpretations; online.)
Burton, Margie M., and Patrick S. Quinn
2013 — Malcolm J. Rogers on Archaeological Ceramics: Foundations and Current Studies in the San Diego Region. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 48(3&4):97-108. (Pioneering archaeologist’s work reassessed based on recent studies; online.)
Cameron, Constance
1999 — Determining Tribal Boundaries through Potsherds: An Archaeological Perspective. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 35(2-3):96-126. (Examination of differences in ceramics between sites in ethnographic Luiseño and Juaneño territories of San Diego, Orange, and Riverside counties; online.)
Campbell, Elizabeth W. Crozer
1931 — An Archaeological Survey of the Twenty Nine Palms Region. Southwest Museum Papers No. 7. Los Angeles. (Detailed discussion and illustrations, pp. 43-63.)
1933 — Cremation in the Desert. The Masterkey 6(4):105-112.
Carrico, Richard L.
1983 — A Brief Glimpse of the Kumeyaay Past: An Interview with Tom Lucas, Kwaaymii of Laguna Ranch. Journal of San Diego History 29(2):115-139. (Comments on clay sources and manufacturing methods; online.)
Chace, Paul G.
1973 — Clay Figurines: Additional Data. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 9(3):41-43. (Bibliographical references.)
Cleland, James H.
2005 — Archaeological Investigations at CA-IMP-7911/H, the North Stallard Locality on the Lower Colorado River, California. Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology 18:113-119. (Early date for ceramics; anomalies in chronology of ceramic types noted; online.)
Cline, Lora L.
1979 — The Kwaaymii: Reflections on a Lost Culture. Imperial Valley College Museum Society Occasional Paper No. 5. El Centro, California. (Revised edition published as Cline 1984.)
1984 — Just Before Sunset. J and L Enterprises, Jacumba, California. (2nd ed. of Cline 1979; ethnographic description of mountain Kumeyaay pottery-making.)
Colton, Harold S.
1939 — Prehistoric Culture Units and Their Relationships in Northern Arizona. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin No. 17. Flagstaff.
1958 — (editor) Pottery Types of the Southwest. Museum of Northern Arizona Ceramic Series No. 3D. Flagstaff. (Includes discussions of Tizon Brown Ware by Dobyns and Euler and of Lower Colorado Buff Ware by Schroeder.)
Cook, John R.
1986 — If Tizon Could Talk. Casual Papers 2(2):85-97. Cultural Resource Management Center, San Diego State University. (Analysis of sherds from southeastern San Diego County; online.)
Curtis, Edward S.
1907-1930 — The North American Indian. Norwood, Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Brief ethnographic notes on ceramics; photos of pots; Mohave and Quechan, vol. 2; Luiseño, Cahuilla, and Diegueño, vol. 15; online)
Davis, Edward H.
1928 — Modern Pottery Vessels from San Diego County, California. Indian Notes and Monographs 5:93-96. (Brief note on modern potter’s work.)
1967 — Diegueño Basketry and Pottery. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 3(1):39-45. (Notes on manufacturing methods, terminology, and artifact shapes, written in 1935.)
Davis, James T.
1962 — The Rustler Rockshelter Site (SBr-288), a Culturally Stratified Site in the Mohave Desert, California. University of California Archaeological Survey Report 57:25-65. Berkeley. (Stratigraphic distribution of Lower Colorado Buff Ware types, Tizon Brown Ware, sherds from the Southwest, pp. 30-32.)
de Barros, Philip
2013 — Prehistoric and Historic Brown Ware Pottery from the Pala Road Bridge Site. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 48(1-2):1-23. (Evidence for strong continuity in pottery characteristics between prehistoric and historic-period specimens recovered at RIV-4707/H; online)
Desautels-Wiley, Nancy Anastasia
2013 –- Middle Holocene Ceramic Artifacts from the Encino Village Site. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 47(3-4):25-44 (27 ceramic artifacts found in association with Olivella grooved rectangular beads, considered to date between 5400 and 4400 B.P.; online)
Dillon, Brian Dervin, and Matthew A. Boxt
2013 — California Ceramic Traditions: An Introduction. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 47(1-2):1-10. (General introduction to collections of papers from various regions, including southern California; online.)
Dixon, Keith A.
1977 — The Mason Valley Clay Figurines: Their Decoration and the Problem of Provenience. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 13(4):73-86. (Descriptions and comparisons with Orange County figurines.)
Donnan, Christopher B.
1964 — A Suggested Culture Sequence for the Providence Mountains. University of California, Los Angeles, Archaeological Survey Annual Report 6:1-22. (Yuman horizon, A.D. 800-1400, with “fallacies of the typologies” shown by sherds from different pottery “types” that refit within single vessels.)
Drover, Christopher E.
1971 — Three Fired-Clay Figurines from 4-Ora-64, Orange County, California. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 7(4):45-49. (Specimens from a Newport Bay site.)
1975 — Early Ceramics from Southern California. Journal of California Anthropology 2:101-107. (Sherds from the Irvine site in Orange County, dated to ca. 4500 B.C.; online.)
1978 — Prehistoric Ceramic Objects from Catalina Island. Journal of California Anthropology 5:78-83. (Non-vessel objects from Little Harbor site dated by thermoluminescence to 1st millennium B.C.; online.)
1979 — Review of “A Southern California Indigenous Ceramic Typology: A Contribution to Malcolm J. Rogers Ceramic Typology,” by Ronald V. May. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 1:205-206. (Criticisms of May’s approach; online.)
1991 — Coyote Canyon Cave: Appendix C, Ceramic Objects. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 27(2-3):120. (Tapered cylindrical object with punctated decorations.)
Drover, Christopher E., R. E. Taylor, Thomas Cairns, and Jonathon Erickson
1979 — Thermoluminescence Determinations on Early Ceramic Materials from Coastal Southern California. American Antiquity 44:285-295. (Irvine site marine shell radiocarbon dates between ca. 4300 and 5600 B.C. in association with ceramic objects; minimum thermoluminescence dates of ca. 1500 B.C.)
Drucker, Philip
1937 — Cultural Element Distributions: V. Southern California. Anthropological Records 1:1-32. University of California Press, Berkeley. (Information on ceramics of the Serrano, Cahuilla, Cupeño, Luiseño, Diegueño, Quechan, and Chemehuevi, pp. 22-25, 45; online.)
1941 — Cultural Element Distributions: XVII. Yuman-Piman. Anthropological Records 6:91-230. University of California Press, Berkeley. (Information on ceramics of the Mohave and Diegueño, pp. 107-109, 131, 177-178; online.)
DuBois, Constance Goddard
1907 — Diegueño Mortuary Ollas. American Anthropologist 9:484-486. (Account of two archaeological specimens, with photo; online.)
1908 — Games, Arts, and Industries of the Diegueños and Luiseños. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 8:167-173. Berkeley. (Brief notes on pottery forms and uses; online.)
Euler, Robert C.
1959 — Comparative Comments on California Pottery. University of California, Los Angeles, Archaeological Survey Annual Report 1958-1959:41-42. (California sherds considered identical with Tizon Brown Ware in Arizona.)
Euler, Robert C., and Henry F. Dobyns
1958 — Tizon Brown Ware: A Descriptive Revision. In Pottery Types of the Southwest, edited by Harold S. Colton. Museum of Northern Arizona Ceramic Series No. 3D. Flagstaff.
Evans, William S., Jr.
1969 — California Indian Pottery: A Native Contribution to the Culture of the Ranchos. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 5(3):71-81. (Cerritos Brown type defined at Long Beach site.)
Fenenga, Gerrit L., Barbara Erwin, and William Erwin
2015 — A Prehistoric Ceramic Rattle from the Southwestern Shoreline of Ancient Lake Cahuilla, Imperial County, California. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 51(1):1-20. (Detailed description of a complete rattle, and comparisons with other southern California finds.)
Forde, C. Daryll
1931 — Ethnography of the Yuma Indians. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 28:83-277. Berkeley. (Notes on Quechan pottery-making methods and forms, pp. 123-124.)
Freeman T. A., and David M. Van Horn
1990 — Salvage Excavations at the Walker Ranch: A Portion of a Late Prehistoric and Historic Luiseño Village (CA-RIV-333). Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 26(4):1-50. (373 brownware and buffware sherds, 20 pipe fragments, seven figurines and fragments, and one miniature cup fragment, pp. 29-32.)
Fritz, Ken, Lavinia Knight, and Jane Gothold
1977 — The Williams Ranch Sites, San Diego County, California. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 13(4):1 -52. (Analytic summary for more than 8,000 sherds from two sites, pp. 35-46.)
Furst, Jill Leslie
2001 — Mojave Pottery, Mojave People: The Dillingham Collection of Mojave Ceramics. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico. (Illustration and discussion of an extensive collection.)
Galdikas-Brindamour, Birute
1970 — Trade and Subsistence at Mulholland: A Site Report on LAn-246. University of California, Los Angeles Archaeological Survey Annual Report 12:120-161.
Gallucci, Karen Louise
2001 — From the Desert to the Mountains: Salton Brownware Pottery in the Mountains of San Diego. Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University. (Microscopic methods for distinguishing desert-derived Salton Brown and mountain-derived Tizon Brown, based on archaeological collection from Wikalokal.)
2004 — Ceramic Analysis at Wikalokal, San Diego County (CA-SDI-4787). Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology 14:119-123. (Differentiation of pottery from western and eastern sources at a site in the Peninsular Range; online.)
Gamble, Lynn
2004 — New Perspectives on the Cuyamaca Complex: Archaeological Investigations at Camp Hual-Cu-Cuish, CA-SDI-945. Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology 14:93-106. (Analysis of pottery and other ceramic items; online.)
Gifford, E. W.
1928 — Pottery-making in the Southwest. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 23:253-273. Berkeley. (Minor notes on Diegueño methods.)
1931 — The Kamia of Imperial Valley. Bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology No. 97. Washington, D.C. (Ethnographic note on pottery, p. 42.)
Graffam, Merle Howard
1978 — Desert Death Images. Desert Magazine of the Southwest 41(6):24-27. (Coachella Valley ceramic figurines, with speculations about their functions; online.)
Griset, Suzanne
1990 — Historic Transformations of Tizon Brown Ware in Southern California. In Hunter-Gatherer Pottery in the Far Southwest, edited by Joanne M. Mack, pp. 180-200. Nevada State Museum Anthropological Papers No. 23. Carson City. (Comparison of prehistoric and historic pottery.)
1996 — Southern California Brown Ware. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis. (Extended analysis of attributes and chronology for ceramics from San Diego and Riverside county sites.)
2008 — When Is a Pot, Not? In Avocados to Millingstones: Papers in Honor of D. L. True, edited by Georgie Waugh and Mark E. Basgall, pp. 91-107. Monographs in California and Great Basin Anthropology No. 5. Archaeological Research Center, California State University, Sacramento. (Discussion of early baked clay artifacts in southern California, pp. 97-100.)
2013 — Ceramics from Lovejoy Springs, a Western Mojave Desert Waterhole. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 47(3-4):1-23. (116 sherds from recent excavations and from 1920-1968 surface collections at LAN-192, including Southern California Brown, Lower Colorado Buff, Hohokam Red-on-Buff, and newly designated California Desert Intermediate Ware; online.)
Guerrero, Monica
2004 — A Possible Cuyamaca Complex Site at CA-SDI-945, Camp Hual-Cu-Cuish, Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, California. Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology 14:107-113. (Analysis of pottery and other ceramic items; online.)
Hagstrum, Melissa B., and John A. Hildebrand
1990 — The Two-Curvature Method for Reconstructing Ceramic Morphology. American Antiquity 55:388-403. (Measurements on sherds from a San Diego site used to estimate vessel shape, which remained constant through time, and vessel volume, which increased.)
Harner, Michael J.
1957 — Potsherds and the Tentative Dating of the San Gorgonio-Big Maria Trail. In An Indian Trail Complex of the Central Colorado Desert, edited by Francis J. Johnston and Patricia J. Johnston, pp. 35-39. University of California Archaeological Survey Report No. 37. Berkeley. (Counts of brownware and buffware sherds at sites in Riverside County.)
Hedges, Ken
1973 — Hakataya Figurines from Southern California. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 9(3):1-40. (Definition of types for figurines and effigy scoops from sites in southern California, western Arizona, and northern Baja California.)
Heintzelman, Samuel P.
2008 — Official Report of Samuel P. Heintzelman, 1853. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 28:89-102. (Brief note on Quechan manufacture and use of pottery.)
Heye, George G.
1919 — Certain Aboriginal Pottery from Southern California. Indian Notes and Monographs 7:1-46. (Archaeological specimens, primarily mortuary jars, from eastern San Diego County; online.)
Heizer, Robert F., and Adan E. Treganza
1944 — Mines and Quarries of the Indians of California. California Journal of Mines and Geology 40:285-359. (Identification of localities for clay and pigments, pp. 309-310, 333-334.)
Hildebrand, John A., G. Timothy Gross, Jerry Schaefer, and Hector Neff
2002 — Patayan Ceramic Variability: Using Trace Elements and Petrographic Analysis to Study Brown and Buff Wares in Southern California. In Ceramic Production and Circulation in the Greater Southwest: Source Determination by INAA and Complementary Mineralogical Investigations, edited by Donna M. Glowacki and Hector Neff, pp. 121-139. University of California, Los Angeles. (Use of neutron activation analysis and petrography to distinguish Salton Brown pottery, produced with sedimentary clays in Colorado Desert, from Tizon Brown; online.)
Hohenthal, William D., Jr.
2001 — Tipai Ethnographic Notes: A Baja California Indian Community at Mid-Century. Ballena Press Anthropological Papers No. 48. Novato, California. (Ethnographic report on pottery-making techniques and forms, pp. 166-173.)
Hooper, Lucile
1920 — The Cahuilla Indians. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 16:315-380. Berkeley. (Ethnographic notes on Cahuilla pottery-making, p. 359; online.)
Horne, Melinda, and Suzanne Griset
2013 — Early Archaic Fired and Modeled Clay from Inland Southern California. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 47(3-4):121-140. (Assemblage from deeply buried deposit at RIV-6069, the Lakeview site in the San Jacinto Valley, dated to ca. 9000 B.P., “one of the oldest, if not the oldest, archaeological site containing pottery yet excavated in California”; online)
Hurd, Gary S., and George E. Miller
2013 — Neutron Activation Analysis of Archaeological Pottery from Long Beach. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 47(3-4):89-103. (Analysis of 63 specimens from LAN-2630 indicates that they were made from local clay rather than being exotic imports; online)
Hurd, Gary S., George E. Miller, and Henry C. Koerper
1990 — An Application of Neutron Activation Analysis to the Study of Prehistoric Californian Ceramics. In Hunter-Gatherer Pottery from the Far West, edited by Joanne M. Mack, pp. 201-220. Nevada State Museum Anthropological Papers No. 25. Carson City. (Trace element profiles used to determine sources for potsherds from ORA-119A.)
Jenkins, Dennis L.
1989 — Appendix 4: The Ceramics of Afton Canyon (CA-SBR-85). In The Archaeology of the Afton Canyon Site (CA-SBR-85), Mojave Desert, San Bernardino County, California by Joan S. Schneider, pp. 137-142. San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly vol. 36 no. 1.
Joesink-Mandeville, L. R. V.
1983 — Early Formative Archaeological Linkages between Nuclear America and Upper California. Journal of New World Archaeology 5(3):27-58. (Potsherds and figurine fragments from ORA-64 compared to finds from other early New World sites.)
Keller, Jean Salpas, and Daniel McCarthy
1989 — Data Recovery at the Cole Canon Site (CA-RIV-1139), Riverside County, California. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 25(1):1-89. (454 brownware sherds, 15 pipe fragments, 14 figurines, and six miscellaneous artifacts, pp. 36-45.)
King, Thomas J., Jr.
1976 — A Cache of Vessels from Cottonwood Spring (Riv-937). Journal of California Anthropology 3:136-142. (Historic-period Cahuilla cache; online.)
Koerper, Henry C., and Christopher E. Drover
1983 — Chronology Building for Coastal Orange County: The Case from CA-ORA-119-A. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 19(2):1-34. (Brief note rejecting classification as “Tizon Brown Ware,” suggesting derivation of Orange County brownware from Lower Colorado Buff Ware, p. 25.)
Koerper, Henry C., Christopher E. Drover, Arthur E. Flint, and Gary Hurd
1978 — Gabrielino Tizon Brown Pottery. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 14(3):43-58. (Neutron activation analysis and thin-section study suggest local Gabrielino manufacture.)
Koerper, Henry C., and Arthur E. Flint
1978 — Some Comments on “Cerritos Brown” Pottery. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 14(2):19-25. (Rejection of distinctiveness of “Cerritos Brown,” based on thin-section analysis.)
Koerper, Henry C., Richard Gossett, and Jerry Schaefer
2014 — A Unique Asphaltum-Coated Brownware Pot. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 50(1&2):71-83. (Uncertain provenience; possibly western Sierra Nevada; online.)
Koerper, Henry C., and Ken Hedges
1996 — Patayan Anthropomorphic Figurines from an Orange County Site. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 18:204-220. (Twelve fired clay figurines from a Costa Mesa site; online).
Kroeber, A. L.
1902 — A Preliminary Sketch of the Mohave Indians. American Anthropologist 4:276-285. (Brief notes on pottery, p. 284; online).
1908 — Ethnography of the Cahuilla Indians. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 8:29-69. Berkeley. (Discussion of Cahuilla pottery, pp. 54-57; online.)
1922 — Elements of Culture in Native California. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 13:259-328. Berkeley. (Brief note on ceramics, pp. 276-277; online.)
1925 — Handbook of the Indians of California. Bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology No. 78. Washington, D.C. (Brief ethnographic notes on pottery use in aboriginal southern California, pp. 702-703, 737-738, 822-823.)
1928 — Native Culture of the Southwest. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 23:375-398. Berkeley.
Kroeber, A. L., and Michael J. Harner
1955 — Mohave Pottery. Anthropological Records 16:1-30. University of California Press, Berkeley. (Ethnographic discussion by Kroeber; description of Parker buff variants by Harner; online; online.)
Laylander, Don
1983 — Ceramic Analysis in Research Designs for the Prehistory of Southern California. Casual Papers 1(3):144-159. Cultural Resource Management Center, San Diego State University. (Review and criticism of previous analyses; online.)
1997 — The Last Days of Lake Cahuilla: The Elmore Site. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 33(1-2):1-138. (Pottery types and traits represented at a seventeenth-century site in Imperial County; online.)
2011 — Diversity in Prehistoric Burials and Cemeteries in the Western Yuman Region. California Archaeology 3:159-176. (Use of cremation urns, pp. 165-166.)
Lyneis, Margaret M.
1988 — Tizon Brown Ware and the Problems Raised by Paddle-and-Anvil Pottery in the Mojave Desert. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 10:146-155. (Problems with brownware classification; online.)
Mack, Joanne
2003 — California Ceramic Traditions: The Obscurity and the Assumptions 2002. Society for California Archaeology Newsletter 37(1):30-33. (Brief note on different traditions; online)
May, Ronald V.
1976 — An Early Ceramic Date Threshold in Southern California. The Masterkey 50:103-107. (Argument for non-ceramic culture in southeastern San Diego County as late as A.D. 960.)
1978 — A Southern California Indigenous Ceramic Typology: A Contribution to Malcolm J. Rogers Research. Journal of the Archaeological Survey Association of Southern California 2(2):1-54. (Detailed discussion of 22 brownware and 10 buffware types.)
1983 — Comment. Casual Papers 1(3):160-162. Cultural Resource Management Center, San Diego State University. (Observations on the divergent approaches by Rogers, Schroeder, Waters, and May to ceramic typology in southern California; online.)
2001 — Ceramic Rims from the Rim of Lake Le Conte. In The Lake Le Conte Survey, by Lucille Ronan McCown, Gordon A. Clopine, Doris Hoover Bowers, Jay von Werlhof, Ruth DeEtte Simpson, Ronald V. May, and Pat King, pp. 45-72. San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 3. (Discussion of brownware and buffware types and their distributions at sites associated with Lake Cahuilla.)
2013 — Lake LeConte Pottery and Southern California Archaeology. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 48(1-2):47-54. (Typological analysis based on 2,958 brownware and buffware rim sherds collected in the 1950s from 134 sites on the Lake Cahuilla shoreline; online)
McCarthy, Daniel F.
2014 — An Early Ceramic Pipe from the San Bernardino Mountains. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 49(3-4):47-55.(Unusually shaped pipe, together with a specimen from San Diego County, proposed as new Deep Creek type; online.)
McCormick, Helen Jill
2010 — An Evaluation of Lowland Patayan Ceramics Typology. Master’s thesis in Archaeology, Prescott College. (Criticism of the validity of Waters’ approach to buffware classification; online.)
McDonald, Alison Meg
1992 — Indian Hill Rockshelter and Aboriginal Cultural Adaptation in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southeastern California. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside. (Detailed discussion of ceramic artifacts, pp. 242-270.)
McKinney, Aileen
1972 — Two Mortuary Urns from San Diego County. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 8(3):38-46. (Pots and pipe from a site near Descanso.)
McKinney, Aileen, and Lavinia C. Knight
1973 — Baked Clay Figurines from Mason Valley, San Diego County: Bowers Museum Strandt Collection. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 93:44-47. (10 figurines and five possible figurine fragments.)
McLean, Deborah K. B.
2001 — An Assessment of the Manufacture, Use, Origin, and Nomenclature of Utilitarian Ceramics Produced by Native American Peoples of Orange County, California. Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, California State University, Fullerton. (Argues that classification of pottery from 32 Orange County sites as Tizon Brown Ware is invalid and that the pottery was produced subsequent to Spanish contact.)
Meighan Clement W.
1959 — Archaeological Resources of Borrego Desert State Park. University of California, Los Angeles, Archaeological Survey Annual Report 1958-1959:27-40. (Proposal for “Palomar Brown” type, pp. 36-39.)
Meister, Cary W., Elaine N. Tomihama, and Tuton Kaboy
1966 — Pottery from the New York and Providence Mountains Survey Sites. University of California, Los Angeles, Archaeological Survey Annual Report 8:275-278.
Muniz, Adolfo, Margie Burton, and Cindy Stankowski
2011 — The San Diego Archaeological Center and the Future of Curation. Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology 25. (Note on investigations of ceramic composition at San Diego County sites, pp. 3-4; online.)
Murray, John R., Franklin Fenenga, and Robert S. Brown
1989 — A Cached Ceramic Bowl from the Squaw Tank District, Joshua Tree National Monument, California. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 25(2):22-30. (Nearly complete plain brownware bowl, possibly Serrano or Cahuilla.)
Mykrantz, J. W.
1927 — Indian Burials in Southern California. Indian Notes and Monographs 4:154-163. (Discussion and illustration of pots and pipe.)
O’Brien, Thomas P.
1974 — Ceramic Artifacts. In Perris Reservoir Archeology: Late Prehistoric Demographic Change in Southeastern California, edited by James F. O’Connell, Philip J. Wilke, Thomas F. King, and Carol L. Mix, pp. 134-137. California Department of Parks and Recreation, Sacramento. (Description and discussion of brownware and buffware sherds from five sites in western Riverside County.)
Panich, Lee M., and Michael Wilken-Robertson
2013 — Malcolm J. Rogers as an Ethnoarchaeologist: Reflections from Santa Catarina, Baja California. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 48(3&4):109-119. (Ethnoarchaeological work on Kumeyaay ceramics in 1930s compared with observations of modern native potters; online.)
Peck, Stuart L.
1953 — Some Pottery from the Sand Hills, Imperial County, California: Site 4-Im-11. Archaeological Survey Association of Southern California Paper No. 1. (Notes on vessel forms, surface treatments; Sand Hills Red, Sand Hills Gray, Sand Hills Black-in-Red, Sand Hills Cream-in-Black types described.)
Porcasi, Judith F.
1998 — Middle Holocene Ceramic Technology on the Southern California Coast: New Evidence from Little Harbor, Santa Catalina Island. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 20:270-284. (Seventeen non-vessel fired clay objects, possibly dating from as early as 3000 B.C., with notes on middle Holocene ceramic objects from elsewhere in coastal southern California; online.)
Plymale-Schneeberger, Sandra
1991 — Petrographic and Geochemical Analysis on Prehistoric Ceramics from Three Riverside County Archaeological Sites, CA-Riv-722, CA-Riv-1864, CA-Riv-2229. Coyote Press, Salinas, California.
1993 — Application of Quantifiable Methodologies in Ceramic Analysis: Petrographic and Geochemical Analysis of Ceramics from Riverside County, California. Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology 6:257-276. (Petrographic and geochemical analyses of sherds from three sites in western Riverside County; online.)
Quinn, Patrick Sean, and Margie Burton
2009 — Ceramic Petrography and the Interpretation of Hunter-Gatherer Craft Technology in Late Prehistoric Southern California. In Interpreting Silent Artefacts: Petrographic Approaches to Cultural Materials, edited by Patrick Sean Quinn, pp. 267-295. Archaeopress, Oxford. (Analysis of fabric groups through petrographic thin-sections of plainware sherds from Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.)
Robbins-Wade, Mary
1988 — Coastal Luiseno: Refining the San Luis Rey Complex. Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology 1:75 -95. (Site comparisons based on relative frequency of ceramics; online.)
Rogers, Malcolm J.
1929 — Report of an Archaeological Reconnaissance in the Mohave Sink Region. Archaeology, Vol. 1, No. 1. San Diego Museum. (Notes on Puebloan, Mohave, and “Archaic Lower Colorado” pottery types.)
1936 — Yuman Pottery Making. San Diego Museum Papers No. 2. (Ethnoarchaeological study, incorporating observations and testimony concerning ceramics practices among the Yuman and Uto-Aztecan groups in southern California, western Arizona, and northern Baja California.)
1941 — Aboriginal Culture Relations between Southern California and the Southwest. San Diego Museum Bulletin 5(3):1-6. (Argument for the independence of Yuman and Hohokam pottery traditions.)
1945 — An Outline of Yuman Prehistory. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 1:167-198. (Chronology and geographical ranges of ceramics attributes.)
Ruby, Jay, and Thomas Blackburn
1964 — Occurrence of Southwestern Pottery in Los Angeles County, California. American Antiquity 30:209-210. (Archaeological finds of Arizona Red-on-brown and Sacaton Red-on-buff sherds at four sites.)
Sawyer, William A., and Henry C. Koerper
2006 — The San Joaquin Hills Venus: A Ceramic Figurine from CA-ORA-1405-B. In Contributions from Orange County Presented in Remembrance of John Peabody Harrington, edited by Henry C. Koerper, pp. 13-34. Coyote Press Archives of California Prehistory No. 53. Salinas, California.
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