Pottery Archaeology
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Recent papers in Pottery Archaeology
The story of Populonia in the Middle Ages in the light of the study of ceramic finds and stratigraphic contexts of the latest excavations.
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This paper examines the interplay between manufacturing parameters and material properties in archaeological ceramic cooking ware. While previous studies on material properties have focused on the response of ceramic vessels to mechanical... more
Archaeological science adopts scientific techniques from different fields, such as biology, chemistry and geology, and applies them to the study of the human past. Even though there are many books with archaeological activities for... more
At the outskirts of the Roman town of Tongeren (Belgium), a potters’ work-shop dating to the Flavian period has been excavated. The site not only yielded waste material associated with the pottery production but also a find assemblage... more
The paper deals with the database of advanced Middle Bronze Age decorated pottery (“Appenninico”), a peculiar type of ceramic that was the focus of the 1959 Puglisi’s book presenting a corpus implemented in the following years till 1995.... more
Résumé/Abstract Dated and stratified potsherds excavated at Nabta Playa belong to the earliest phase of pottery-making in the Sahararelatively sophisticated bowls decorated with a toothed wheel. The authors explore the origins of... more
Il sito di Vaccarizza si trova sul lato sud della valle del Celone nel territorio di Troia, 8 km in direzione nord-est, nella località Monte Castellaccio (fig. 1). La sua identificazione si deve a J. Bradford, che visitò l’insediamento... more
The finds of wheel-made Iranian and Central Asian pottery, including transport flasks, in early nomadic burials in the South Urals and Trans-Volga regions have already attracted the attention of scholars. The reason for writing this... more
This paper, presents formally modelled date estimates for the sequence of Lengyel funerary pottery in western Hungary, eastern Austria and south-west Slovakia. It is an extension of the dating and modelling already carried out by the... more
En este artículo presentamos las cerámicas comunes no torneadas de difusión aquitano-tarraconense (AQTA). A pesar de su aspecto tosco y aparentemente simple en lo tecnológico, conocieron una amplia difusión a lo largo de los siglos I al V... more
We present results, analyses, and an in-depth historical contextualization of the fieldwork undertaken in 2012 and 2013 at the Kindoki site in the Lower Congo (DRC). This site is linked to Mbanza Nsundi, one of the Kongo Kingdom’s... more
Introduction: the scope of this paper This paper, dedicated to the memory of István Zalai-Gaál, presents formally modelled date estimates for the sequence of Lengyel funerary pottery in western Hungary, eastern Austria and south-west... more
Pottery technology in the Early Iron Age remains understudied in Slovenian archaeology, especially in the combined use of description on a macroscopic level with the addition of petrographic thin sections analysis. In this study we... more
Built from 1492 onwards, the Royal Hospital of All Saints became a model in public health and assistance. Its innovative concept is displayed through the adoption of European Renaissance architectonic proposals, and several other of its... more
This is a double registration of my paper:
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This book is a publication of a session held on the EAA Annual meeting in Thessaloniki. It covers a wide range of theoretical and methodological issues, such as: locating cemeteries in the landscape; age; gender and social relations... more
The influence of tempering on the mechanical performance of pottery is assessed. Emphasis is placed on the examination of the impact of temper shape (low vs. high sphericity) and extent of vitrification on the strength and toughness of... more
The present study reports the results obtained through an archaeometric investigation on representative Early Bronze Age tripod vessels belonging to plain simple wares of Tilbeshar which is located almost 32 km southeast of Gaziantep... more
This paper discusses the basis of Neolithic periodization used in mainland Finland. It is suggested that the periodization should be revised: boundary between the Middle and Late Neolithic periods should be moved to correspond the... more
An intact archaeological context named Locus 1 has recently been discovered at Dehesilla Cave (southern Spain). The ritual funerary deposition consists of a complete pottery jar with part of a human calvarium over the mouth, and was... more
The study of technology transfer in pottery production to the periphery of the Mycenaean world has been addressed by considering two different areas, southern Italy and central Macedonia. Technological features such as ceramic paste,... more
ABSTRACT In 1822, a devastating town fire sealed a large ceramic assemblage from a store in the town of Oulu in northern Finland. Excavations of the merchant’s stock recovered over a hundred kilograms of ceramics that was almost entirely... more
During extensive field work, different aspects of the large Tripolye settlement Stolniceni I in northwest Moldova were investigated by an international team. These investigations allow a reassessment of these population agglomerations... more
During the Late Bronze Age, the Iron Age and early medieval period (c. 600 BC – AD 1250) settlement at Vik in the Ørland peninsula emerged, flourished, vanished and emerged anew. Local landscape and vegetation development, cross-regional... more
UNLIKE MANY OTHER PREHISTORIC HUNTER-GATHERER CULTURES, the Jomon culture (c. 12,500-2300 B.P.) in Japan is characterized by the production and use of pottery (Pearson 1990, 1992). The great antiquity of Jomon pottery, the oldest of which... more