Recommended Books on Primitive Pottery
A long list of recommended books on the art and craft of prehistoric, Southwestern and primitive pottery (in no particular order).
- Ceramics for the Archaeologist by Anna O. Shepard
- Messages From the High Desert by Clint Swink
- Mud Puzzles: How Making Replica Pottery Led Me to a Better Understanding of the Ancient Southwest by Andy Ward
- Pinch Pottery: Functional, Modern Handbuilding by Susan Halls
- Mastering Hand Building: Techniques, Tips, and Tricks for Slabs, Coils, and More by Sunshine Cobb
- Dirt for Making Things: An Apprenticeship in Maricopa Pottery by Mary Fernald
- Papago Indian Pottery by Bernard L Fontana
- Indian Pottery by Toni Roller
- Generations in Clay Pueblo Pottery of the American Southwest by Alfred Dittert & Fred Plog
- Talking With the Clay: The Art of Pueblo Pottery in the 21st Century by Stephen Trimble
- Living Tradition of Maria Martinez by Susan Peterson
- Symmetries of Culture: Theory and Practice of Plane Pattern Analysis by Dorothy K. Washburn & Donald W. Crowe
- Ceramic Production in the American Southwest by Barbara J. Mills & Patricia L. Crown
- Ceramics and Ideology: Salado Polychrome Pottery by Patricia L. Crown
- Casas Grandes and the Ceramic Art of the Ancient Southwest by Richard F. Townsend, Ken Kokrda & Barbara Moulard
- Re-creating the Word: Painted Ceramics of the Prehistoric Southwest by Barbara L. Moulard
- Painted Ceramics of the Western Mound at Awatovi by Watson Smith
- Mimbres Painted Pottery by J.J. Brody