Assessments of the Past, Strategies for the Future (S. Alcock). Methodology: Methods of Collection, Recording and Quantification (D. Mattingly); Cultural Depositional Processes andPost-depossitional Problems (J. Taylor); Ceramics and the Site (Vincent Gaffney); What Are we Counting For? (Elizabeth Fentress); Dating, Quantifying and Utilizing Pottery from Surface Survey (Martin Millett); Towards an Analysis of Incomplete Distributions (Nicola Terrenato); Quando i Campi Hanno Pochi Significati da Estarre (Franco Cambi); Prospection et Chronologie: de la quantification du temps au modele de peuplement (Frederic Trement); Discussion (Martin Millett). Ceramic Studies in Mediterranean Survey: Prehistoric Ceramic Studies (Caroline Malone and Simon Stoddart); Roman Ceramic Studies in Mediterranean Survey (John W. Hayes); Early Medieval and Medieval Ceramic Studies (Helen Patterson). Case Studies: Surface Survey Analysis of the Copper Age Site of La Pijotilla (Spain) (Victor Hurtado); On-site Surface Distributions and Geophysica: the site of Rodik-Adjovscina (Bozidar Slapsak, Branko Music and Verena Perko); Il Caso dell'Itlia Medio-tirrenica (Andrea Zifferaro); Ceramic Chronology and Roman Rural Settlement in the Lower Guadalquivir Valley during the Augustan Period (Simon Keay); Terracotta and its Territory (Franco Cambi); The Adriatic Islands Project (Vincent Gaffney, Branco Kirigin, JOhn W. Hayes and Peter Leach); Ceramologie et Histoire du Peuplement dans la Cite de Mines (Claude Raynaud); Insediamento e Circolazione Ceramica fra V e X Secolo nella Toscana Centro-meridionale (Riccardo Francovich and Marco Valenti); Reconstructing the Classical Landscape with Figures: some interpretive explorations in North-West Keos (Todd Whitelaw); Demographic Trends: the Contribution of Regional Survey Data (John Bintliff and Kostas Sbonias); Conclusion (Susan E. Alcock, Franco Cambi, Simon Keay and Claude Raynaud). (Oxbow Books 1999)