Dear Rebecca,<br /><br />Thanks again for your great work, as usual, great improvement.<br /><br />There are two parts that I would like to ask you.<br /><br />One of the aims of this work is not only to reemphasize that the techno-functional approach would provide new results that cannot be achieved by stylistic analyses alone, but also to verify further what I proposed previously: that more micro-level comparison of pottery attributes might produce <em><strong>more, and more broadly useful, data.</strong> </em><br /><br />In the process of archaeological interpretation and explanation for the meanings of cultural identities in prehistoric societies, it is most often assumed that<em><strong> archaeological materials symbolized affiliation and maintained boundaries, and archaeological studies have indicated the possible correlation between identity boundaries and material culture</strong></em> (Rice 1987).<br /><br />I would like to confirm that the words with italic and bold are the ones you really meant.<br /><br />Thanks for your help and time again, <br /><br />Jaehoon,