Study Of Pottery Research Articles

The results of the Fatyanovo-Balanovo and the late Volosovo population contacts in pottery traditions

Due to the Historical-and-Cultural approach to ancient ceramics studies the development of mixed pottery traditions reflects the amalgamation of the very bearers of these traditions. Taken as a problem, the study of populations contacts with different levels of pottery production is specific for a wide variety of territories and chronological periods. In the Upper and Middle Volga region the problem manifests itself in appearance of the mixed pottery traditions (morphological as well as technological ones) as a result of contacts between the Fatyanovo-Balanovo population and the late Volosovo population. So-called Fatyanoid (or Fatyanovo-like) pottery that demonstrates features of the Volosovo and the Fatyanovo-Balanovo cultural traditions emerges in the process of amalgamation. A.A. Spitsyn, M.E. Foss, N.N. Gurina, I.V. Gavrilova, O.S. Gadzyatskaya and other researchers paid their attention to the problem. Based on the study of pottery collected at a number of archeological monuments including pottery from unfortified settlements - Nikolo-Perevoz I and II, Sakhtysh I, II, IV, Dikarikha, Iberdus I, Lipovka I and Galankina Gora - the author distinguishes three groups of the Fatyanoid (Fatyanovo-like) pottery: group I includes pottery with mixed Fatyanovo and Oshpandino traditions, group II includes pottery with mixed Fatyanovo and late Volosovo traditions, and group III includes pottery with the Fatyanovo traditions mixed with traditions of the population that consisted of bearers of the Bronze Age culture which is hard to define. These groups are present nearly at all archeological monuments though Fatyanovo-like pottery predominates at every monument. The author distinguishes pottery traditions common to the second group and explains the reason of their differences found at different monuments.

Recent Publications on Archaeological Ceramic Analyses and their Contributions to the Study of Ancient Pottery Technology

Recent Publications on Archaeological Ceramic Analyses and their Contributions to the Study of Ancient Pottery Technology

Data Atlas of Byzantine and Ottoman Material Culture: Archiving Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeological Fieldwork Data from the Eastern Mediterranean (600–2000 ad), Phase 1

This Data Atlas of Byzantine and Ottoman Material Culture involves the archiving, storing and making accessible of Medieval and Post-Medieval data from several archaeological missions in the eastern Mediterranean (period 600–2000 ad). The data mainly originate from pottery studies carried out during excavations in four major urban centres and during two surface surveys in their respective surroundings. The urban sites are Butrint in southern Albania, Athens in central Greece, Ephesus in western Turkey and Tarsus in eastern Turkey, the material culture of which is studied in relation to archaeological finds from rural settlements and towns in their hinterlands (e.g., Aetolia, Boeotia).

Sumerian Pottery Technology Studied Through Neutron Diffraction and Chemometrics at Abu Tbeirah (Iraq)

Pottery is the most common material found in archaeological excavations and is used as the main tool for chronological dating. Due to the geopolitical instability of the Middle East during the latter part of the last century until recent years, Sumerian pottery studies and analyses are limited. The resumption of archaeological excavations in Iraq during the last ten years allows the acquisition of new information and the study of archaeological material excavated through modern stratigraphic methodologies. This paper presents the results of the non-destructive analyses of Abu Tbeirah Sumerian pottery (Iraq) from the 3rd millennium BC and is aimed at analysing the crystallographic composition of ceramic material, therefore contributing to fill a gap in the knowledge of early Southern Mesopotamian pottery production, shedding new light on details of ancient technology and manufacturing techniques. Among the wide range of analytical techniques available, neutron-based ones have been chosen, obtaining detailed analyses in a non-destructive manner. Non-destructive and non-invasive neutron diffraction (ND) was applied in combination with chemometrics such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Cluster Analysis (CA). ND confirms a general uniformity of the raw materials and a local Mesopotamian provenance through a comparison with modern local clay. Moreover, secondary minerals and their marker-temperature formation imply two different ranges of firing temperature that never exceeded 1000 °C, a temperature easily reachable through pit-firing techniques.

A Study the Typological Approach on the Pottery of the Neolithic Age in Korea11

Study of Neolithic Age Pottery in Korea puts emphasis on the typologicall research method along with study of other ages. However, as concepts and methodology related to type or typology are different to ones of other ages, so it causes a lot of confusion among majors not specializing in Neolithic Age Pottery. Therefore, this manuscript not only brings out concepts and methodology commonly used in current academia from 2012 in order to resolve the above issue but also suggests an alternative on the issue. Formal method in recent years is classified as a typologicall method which is known as typology method in tradition and divided based on forms and shapes, affiliated pattern seriation, attributively seriation, frequency seriation. Furthermore, according to the methodological nature, it can be largely divided into more subjective methods and more objective methods. While a disadvantage of the subjective method is change based in subjective understanding, flexibility on loss materials is an advantage. The objective method provides an identical outcome for third party, whereas it is vulnerable to loss materials by limitation of fragmentary materials. For the alternative on above methods, a stylistic method such as earthenware construction theory is emerging. It is hard to consider these methodologys perfect alternatives but very worth to understand issues on a macroscopic point of view. Finally, the issues on a study of Neolithic Age in Korea are considered results caused by insufficient baseline data. Thus, it is necessary to secure enough baseline data as well as keep trying to acquire a new point of view and methods. It is also mandatory that Cultural Heritage Administration and the organization of Cultural investigation desperately try to secure detailed baseline data plus attention of lots of researchers.

The Brief «Walk-through» in the Archaeological Ceramic Investigations in the Way to a New Approach in Neolithic Ceramics Styles Research

The study of ceramic is one of the broadest research areas in archaeological sciences. Over the last two centuries, archaeologists have developed a number of approaches and methods that have had different goals of the studies: from the study of ceramics as an object of art to the reproduction of the manufacture technologies, and the study of pottery as a «mediator» for the study of everyday life of the ancient population. From the end of the XIX century of the archaeological research scholars looking for different algorithms and strategies in the ceramic studies and attributions. To the end of the XX century, ceramics studies became more complex: from pottery as an object to the technology of the manufacture. Scholars defined methodological groups of the ceramic’s investigation as 1. the description of the technologic information; 2. Form description; 3. Patterns analyses; 4. Reconstruction of the cultural traditions of the pottery. Different methodic together with physical-chemical analyses can prove a theoretical hypothesis. Together with the development of physical methods in archaeological research should also develop the methods of form and pattern analyses and fit to the new archaeological theories’ concepts The purpose of the article is a brief review of the scientific methods developed at different times in Western and Eastern Europe, North America, and to discover new combinations of research approaches that would allow archaeological ceramic complexes to be explored at a new level. This is especially true of the difficulties encountered in the study of Neolithic utensils, given the incomplete forms of utensils, the relatively small number of finds, and natural damage. The new paradigm in ceramics investigations is the studies of the raw material of Neolithic cera-mics using natural methods of analysis, such as binocular, p-XRF, spectrographic analyses. The results may open up new knowledge regarding the mobility of the ancient population and the cultural exchange between different groups of the Neolithic population. Key words: Neolithic, ceramic studies, pottery, migration, cultural exchange.

Морфологический анализ и датировка керамики Посольской стоянки (по материалам раскопок Е. А. Хамзиной 1959 г.)

The analysis of pottery materials of Posolskaya site (excavations by E. A. Khamzina in 1959), which is located on the southeast coast of Lake Baikal (Kabansk district, the Republic of Buryatia), is carried out in this article. Based on morphological features, several groups of pottery with a set of characteristic features are identified. A comparison of them with the materials of supporting multilayer objects on the coast of Baikal and Cis-Baikal area, in general, made it possible to determine the relative and absolute chronology of these groups. It was determined that pottery complexes of layers 2 and 3 contain artifacts of different cultural and chronological periods from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age in a mixed state. They contain materials of the Middle and Late Neolithic (Posolskaya and Ust-Belaya ceramic types), the Early Bronze Age (pottery with pearls, with fingernails and Northern Baikal type) and the Late Bronze Age (Tyshkine-Senogdinsk type). Reticulated pottery, recorded in small quantities, was found in all complexes of the Neolithic era of the region. The pottery studies showed, on the one hand, its morpho-typological proximity with similar pottery in the south of Central Siberia as a whole. On the other hand, there were some regional differences (thickening of the corolla in bulk on Posolskaya type pottery in two versions: from the outside and from the inside; a variety of compositional structures on vessels with an external thickening of the corolla was revealed, expressed in simplification of the ornamental design; pottery combining features of Posolskaya and Ust-Belaya types was distinguished. A series of radiocarbon dates from stratified complexes of multilayer objects on the Baikal coast made it possible to determine chronological ranges for almost all pottery groups identified at Posolskaya site. Posolskaya type pottery in two of its variants corresponds to a chronological interval of 6750–6310 cal BP; Ust’-Belaia type (focusing on the dates of Ulan-Khada and the Gorelyi Les) – 5581–4420 cal BP; pottery with pearls and constructions from wide lines of the retreating spatula – 4500–3080 cal BP, pottery with finger pinches corresponds to 3370–3230 cal BP; Northern Baikal type – 3346–3077 cal BP; Tyshkine-Senogdinsk type – 2778–1998 cal BP.

THE LIVING AND WORKING CONDITIONS OF SLOBOZHAN POTTER IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH - AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY.

The study of pottery, especially at the current stage of the revival of Ukrainian national culture, is an urgent task of national historical science. The unstoppable internationalization of traditional household culture in Ukraine, the reduction in the nu

THE PECULIARITIES OF VOLYN CERAMIC ASSEMBLAGES OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 13th — FIRST HALF OF THE 14th CENTURIES IN HNIDAVSKA HIRKA NEAR LUTSK

In the territory of the Halych-Volyn principality, the relevance of the study of monuments dating from time after the Mongol-Tatar pogroms in the middle of the 13th century is determined by their insignificant number, regional features and insufficiently developed chronology of various categories of things. The study of pottery remains an important task, since it is the most numerous group of findings during the research of the medieval settlements.
 Interesting ceramic complexes of the second half of the 13th — the first half of the 14th centuries were found during the excavation of two dwellings in a settlement in Hnidavskaa Hirka near the village of Rovantsi in Lutsk district. The majority of the findings form by the fragments of pots; besides, there are also frying pans, bowls, pitchers, and large earthenware pots. Pots are divided into two groups. The first group belongs to the type that appeared at the end of the 11th century and spread throughout Southern Rus in the 12th — first half of the 13th century. New trends that developed after the Mongol-Tatar pogroms are revealed in the features of the rim profiling and new techniques of ornamentation of pots of the second group. The outer edge of the rim is divided by a horizontal groove, and there is an ornament under the rim — a horizontal line of pressings. By analogy with Lutsk, Volodymyr-Volynskyi, and Peresopnytsia, they can be dated to the second half of the 13th—14th centuries. According to the ratio of the number of pots of both groups in each of the dwellings and dating of other findings, their chronology is defined as the middle — second half of the 13th century (dwelling 9) and the end of the 13th — first half of the 14th centuries (dwelling 1).

Inside out: Assessing pottery forming techniques with micro-CT scanning. An example from Middle Neolithic Thessaly

Studies relating to pottery primary forming techniques are relatively scarce in the field of ceramic studies. This is, in part, due to the difficulty in obtaining information about the inner structures of pots in a non-destructive way. Methodologies which have been applied previously (mainly macroscopic observation and X-ray radiography) are subject to limitations which restrict their scope and accuracy. Recent developments in industrial X-ray micro-CT, however, pave a new direction for the study of ceramic technology. Micro-CT is a non-destructive methodology, which allows the precise visual and computable detection of clay fabric microstructures. More precisely, this method allows direct visual detection and measurement of coils, slabs, and other construction units; the recording of the orientation of voids and inclusions; and the documentation of specific forming technicalities. These features can be highly indicative of specific techniques, and they can, thus, help to identify even individualised craft behaviours.In this paper, we present the results of the micro-CT scanning of a Middle Neolithic pottery assemblage from Sesklo (Thessaly, Greece). The study proposes a concrete methodology for the recognition and classification of specific macro- and micro-features. These features are indicative of distinctive vessel shaping processes, and, on the basis of these data, we suggest a revised model for the correlation between the orientation of voids and inclusion within specific formation techniques. The results show clearly the invaluable potential of micro-CT in the study of pottery forming techniques. In particular, they indicate a significant technological pluralism within the pottery assemblage from Sesklo.

A new fifteenth-to-sixteenth-century pottery kiln on the Tagus basin, Portugal

A detailed archaeometric study of pottery was made of a fifteenth-to-sixteenth-century kiln located inside the walls of the Castle of Alenquer. The locally collected sherds are lead glazed, and mostly exhibit a green or dark yellow decoration. Only in one case, a fragment of a bowl, tin oxide was detected in the white glaze. Pastes from the ceramics of the Alenquer kiln were spectroscopically characterized in terms of their mineralogical and elemental composition. This pottery was fired twice, the first time at high temperatures to produce the biscotto, and the second time at lower temperatures to glaze the ceramics. Although only one type of raw material collected locally was used, two types of ceramic pastes were detected and organized into two groups: one produced at about 850 °C and another at about 950 °C. Pastes from Group 1 were converted into Group 2 pastes whenever the temperature of the kiln was raised from 850 to 950 °C, as confirmed by firing Group 1 pastes in an oven. These results were compared with those obtained for coeval ceramics, namely at Santo Antonio da Charneca and Mata da Machada. Both kilns were located on the south shore of the river Tagus (Lisbon), as previously reported. The first archaeometric study of ceramics produced in the kiln of Alenquer, (Portugal, fifteenth to sixteenth centuries) is reported, with the use of surface spectroscopies techniques, namely micro-Raman. Significant differences were found from two coeval kilns also located at the Tagus basin, Santo Antonio da Charneca and Mata da Machada.

Appearance and development of the brazier-shaped pottery (걚形土器) excavated from ancient tomb in the Jinhan and Byeonhan Region

The brazier-shaped pottery(盧形土器) was mainly excavated from the wooden chamber tomb as one of the major types of the latter soft grayish pottery(後期瓦質土器) in Jin Byeon Han(弁辰韓) area. According to the latter soft grayish pottery study, the shape of brazier-shaped pottery in the Byeon Jin Han area, had changed with time. But the‘ Byeon Jin Han’is a collective expression of a group of small units, the latter period of the Byeon Jin Han was during when the integration between the groups began to actively proceed. It is also meaningful to look at the aspects between unit sites rather than all Yeongnam province as an entire analysis unit. In this article, it’s focused on examining the differences in patterns of brazier-shaped pottery between unit sites. As a result of the analysis of the pottery, the common attributes shared across the Byeon Jin Han area and the characteristic properties of the unit sites were derived. The common attributes are the size and height of the top part, the maximum circumferential position(胴最大部) and shape, the percentage of foot in total size of the pottery etc.. The common attribute had changed in the forward direction, it’s interpreted it as shared the recognition of brazier-shaped pottery in all the Byeon Jin Han area. Meanwhile, the detailed type differences by units, is interpreted it as the result of selecting specific attributes in the region. Therefore it seems the shape of brazier-shaped pottery in the Byeon Jin Han area that common and optional attributes are combined. It’s examined the process of selective combination of attributes through comparison between regions. Considering the common attributes of the brazier-shaped pottery and the a temporal and spatial change of unit site’s property, there were various types of the pottery from the beginning, it develops in the direction of increasing the quantity with the formation according to the flow of time. As the shape difference between unit ruins decreases in the same time, it became flat in the Gyeongju region, the top part of pottery were developed in the upright direction in the Busan·Gimhae region. It’s changed to be hardened, transformed pottery stand(器臺) with the difference between Gyeongju and Busan·Gimhae region.

Innovation as a booster of rural artisan entrepreneurship: a case study of black pottery

Purpose Rural entrepreneurship is an emergent field of study, with these start-ups becoming one of the most noticeable ways to promote rural development, but the few studies concerning innovation among artisans have thus far only been exploratory. The purpose of this paper is to examine the entrepreneurial artisan initiatives of young innovators in a peripheral northern area of Portugal where black pottery is produced. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative data analysis was carried out on in-depth semi-structured interviews with three young artisan innovators and entrepreneurs and one individual who functions as a cultural booster. The content analysis was done using QSR International’s NVivo Version 11 software. Findings These young entrepreneurs have developed commercial activities and introduced innovations (i.e. design and process) into black pottery production, while taking advantage of endogenous materials, local culture and traditional knowledge. These individuals have sought not only to generate their own innovations but also to keep their culture and local traditions alive, thereby contributing to rural development by establishing networks with local young artisans. Research limitations/implications Some limitations are linked to the sample’s size and basis in a specific geographic reality. Practical implications The findings provide a fuller understanding of why some rural artisan firms grow, suggesting that artisans’ networks and innovative and entrepreneurial behaviours play a key role. Originality/value This research’s results contribute to the literature on the role that innovation can play as a booster of rural artisanship through networks and entrepreneurship. This paper is among the first to discuss black pottery as a form of artisan entrepreneurship. The results underline the value of innovations and networks, which were found to be the core ingredients in rural artisan entrepreneurship.

Production of Late Bronze-Early Iron Age handmade pottery from Central Epirus (Prefecture of Ioannina), Greece

The present work represents the first archaeometric study of pottery from central Epirus (Prefecture of Ioannina). It is combining the macroscopic examination of a large ceramic body, and the petrographic analysis of 104 samples from Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age handmade pottery from Liatovouni in the Konitsa region, and Krya in the Ioannina Basin. For comparative reasons, 27 samples from a number of sites in the Ioannina Basin were also examined microscopically. The study provides new information regarding the potential provenance and technology of manufacture of ceramic vessels in the study region. Although local preferences in pottery recipes and their correlation to specific wares are apparent, ceramic production in the region is characterized by a shared knowledge of materials, processes and techniques, pointing to contacts not only with neighboring sites, but with areas further afield.

A study of archaeological pottery of Northeast India using laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS)

Abstract The objective of this work is to investigate the chemical composition of the archaeological potsherds from Northeast India. Laser breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) and scanning electron microscope coupled with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDX) have been used to identify the chemical composition of potsherds. LIBS is a micro-destructive technique and based on the time resolved detection of optical emission of transient plasma. In archaeological science, application of LIBS has gained interest for its capability in atomic species recognition. Scanning electron microscope coupled with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy are powerful techniques to investigate the microstructure as well as the chemical composition of the archaeological ceramics. LIBS and EDX analyses have revealed that divergent quantities of Si, Al, Fe, Mg, Ti and K occurred as key constituent in the composition of analysed potsherds. The SEM-EDX results demonstrate that low refractory and non-calcareous clay have been used as raw material and the pottery was fired below 800 °C.

A new nondestructive approach to chemical analysis of potsherds using an X‐ray fluorescence microscope: Case study about the past pottery manufacture in the Yaeyama Islands

In archeology, pottery represents an important class of artifacts giving information on the past human activity, the ecology, and ancient cultural groups. Some chemical analytic methods, including X‐ray fluorescent analysis, were adopted for the archeological study of pottery. However, these techniques also involve problems, including the destructive analysis of materials, and cannot analyze the original clay condition of pottery. To address this, we carried out nondestructive chemical analysis of 13 potsherds excavated from the Yaeyama Islands in the southern Japan archipelagos using X‐ray fluorescence microscopy. Two analytic methods were used, elemental mapping and multipoint spectral measurement, making it possible to obtain a visualized elemental distribution on potsherd surface and a detailed multipoint elemental composition of the same sample for the multivariate statistical analysis. In this study, the visualized images suggested that calcium particles were mixed to temper the materials, and their size and quantity differed between potsherds, whereas the uniformity of clay substrate, including the quantities of iron and silicon on multipoint measurement, was a characteristic of each potsherd. Therefore, principal component analysis and nonmetric multidimensional scaling analysis of the potsherds suggest that the differences between the Yaeyama Islands in terms of pottery manufacturing technology are due to chronological factors in this case. Our method represents an effective new approach to the pottery study for technological change.

Anglo‐Saxon Style Pottery from the Northern Netherlands and North‐Western Germany: Fabrics and Finish, Regional and Chronological Patterns, and their Implications

This paper presents the results of a study of Anglo‐Saxon style pottery in the northern Netherlands and north‐western Germany, involving macroscopic and microscopic analysis of fabrics and finish. Both regions show similar developments in form and decoration in the pottery of the fourth and fifth centuries ad, the late Roman and Migration period, resulting in the typical decoration and shapes that are known as the Anglo‐Saxon style. In the northern Netherlands, this style is traditionally associated with Anglo‐Saxon immigrants. It has, however, been suggested that this style was, rather, part of an indigenous development in areas in the northern Netherlands where occupation was continuous, though influenced by stylistic developments in north‐western Germany. That hypothesis is supported by the analysis of fabrics and finish presented here. The characteristic of fabrics and surface treatment indicate technological continuity. The use of local clay sources for Anglo‐Saxon style pottery and for contemporary regional types indicates that most of the Anglo‐Saxon style pottery in the northern Netherlands was not brought by Anglo‐Saxon immigrants or as imports, but must have been made locally. That applies to settlements with continuous habitation, as well as settlements in the coastal area that were not inhabited during the fourth century ad.

Fragments of Lamps and other Artefacts from the Rough Cilicia Survey Pottery Study Collection

Fragments of Lamps and other Artefacts from the Rough Cilicia Survey Pottery Study Collection

The beginning of the Neolithic in the mid-Ebro valley and in Iberia’s Inland (Northern and Southern submeseta), Spain

This paper is a state-of-art of the Neolithisation process and Early Neolithic in Iberia’s inlands, specifically in the mid and upper Ebro Valley and Central Meseta of Spain. Firstly, a historiographical review of the hypothesis and models of the last decades are presented. In this section, the paper shows that the main theoretical concepts and ideas remain similar for a long time ago but they are nuanced by the last data and analysis. Next, these new data and revisions are analysed, in particular the existence of Neolithic settler pioneer communities and “Mesolithic context with Neolithic elements”, the role of colonization phenomena (DNA analysis, leapfrog colonization and landscape occupation), the pottery studies like main interpretative tool and, finally, the variable of rock art. The chronology is reviewed in the last section.

Sir John Beazley's Notebooks: A New Resource for the Study of Athenian Figure-Decorated Pottery

Sir John Beazley's Notebooks: A New Resource for the Study of Athenian Figure-Decorated Pottery