Ceramics

Exchange, interaction, and change in local ceramic production in the Niumi commercial center on the Gambia River

by Liza Gijanto

Journal of Social Archaeology, February 2011; 11 (1)

Chapple, R. M. 2012 'Corrstown: A Coastal Community. Excavations of a Bronze Age village in Northern Ireland: Review' Blogspot post

by Robert M Chapple

Chapple, R. M. 2011 'Review: Creative Minds: Proceedings of a Public Seminar on Archaeological Discoveries on National Road Schemes, August 2009' Blogspot post

by Robert M Chapple

Eddisford and Phillips - Kalba in the third millennium

by Daniel Eddisford

LOCAL ROMAN COARSE WARES FROM CHHIM (SOUTHERN LEBANON)

by Ula Wicenciak

The archaeological site of Chhim lies in Kharoub region, Chouf Mountains, some 40 km due south of Beirut.... more The archaeological site of Chhim lies in Kharoub region, Chouf Mountains, some 40 km due south of Beirut. Archaeological work have been undertaken since 1996 by a Polish mission. This paper aims to present the ceramic material dated on Roman time. Excavations have mainly focused on the rooms in the village and area around Roman Temple and Byzantine basilica. The largest collection of coarse ware comes from sectors containing an oil press and from two cisterns. Pottery from the mountainous regions of southern Lebanon is an entirely unknown entity. The ceramic assemblage from this site provides an excellent introduction to typological and comparative studies and many also point to links with territories influenced by southern regions.

Synthesis and characterization of neodymium doped ceria nanocrystalline ceramic structures

by Serhat KOÇYİĞİT

Ceramics International
Accepted for publication

İbrahim Uslu, Arda Aytimur, Mustafa Kemal Öztürk, Serhat Koçyiğit

In this study, a new method to synthesize neodymium doped ceria ceramic nanopowders by the electrospinning of the... more In this study, a new method to synthesize neodymium doped ceria ceramic nanopowders by the electrospinning of the hybrid polymers solution of their composite precursor was put forward. Calcined and sintered nanopowders were characterized by FT-IR, XRD, BET, SEM, and AFM techniques. According to the XRD analysis, the obtained powders are single phase and independent of the dopant concentration in the range investigated. The crystallite sizes were calculated using Scherrer equation. Moreover, lattice parameters, dislocation densities and microstrain values were calculated. BET results show that the increase of the neodymium doped content decrease the surface area of the composite powders, confirming the highly ordered micro and mesostructure. SEM and AFM results show that the samples have spherical grains. According to the surface roughness measurements, the increase in the amount of neodymium and the decrease in the amount of cerium decreased the surface roughness.

Stadler Peter, Herold Hajnalka 2003 (1998), Drei awarenzeitliche Brunnen und sonstige Siedlungsgruben von Brunn am Gebirge (Flur Wolfholz, Bezirk Mödling, NÖ) und die Fundkeramik. Antaeus 26, 179-186.

by Peter Stadler

Magnesia Stabilized Zirconia Doped with Boron, Ceria and Gadolinia

by Prof.Dr. İbrahim USLU

Ceramics International
Available online 20 January 2012

A. Aytimur, I. Uslu, S. Koçyiğit, F. Özcan

In this study, magnesia stabilized zirconia based nanocrystalline ceramics were produced through a polymer precursor... more In this study, magnesia stabilized zirconia based nanocrystalline ceramics were produced through a polymer precursor route using gadolinium and boron. The powders were characterized during the various steps by structural and morphological techniques (FT-IR, XRD, and SEM). XRD results proved that a tetragonal phase is predominant for all samples with varying magnesium contents and no monoclinic zirconia solid solution appears. The crystallite sizes of the samples were calculated using Scherrer equation. The smallest crystallite size was obtained for the sample containing Zr/Mg/Ce/Gd/B ratio of 82/0/10/8/0. The lattice parameters were calculated for cubic, tetragonal, hexagonal, and orthorhombic structures. SEM results show all the samples have spherical grains. The average grain diameters were calculated for all the samples. The smallest average grain diameter was obtained for the sample containing Zr/Mg/Ce/Gd/B ratio of 82/0/10/8/0.

Note sul metodo di pubblicazione della ceramica

by Hugo Blake

Published in Atti III Convegno Internazionale della Ceramica (1970), pp 239-251. Posted with the consent of the Centro Ligure per la Storia della Ceramica. Hugo Blake asserts and gives notice of his right under section 77 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the Author of this paper.

Prehistoric Timbuktu and its hinterland

by Douglas Park 

Douglas P. Park (2010). Published in Antiquity: Volume: 84 Number: 326 Page: 1076–1088
Keywords: Mali, Sahara, Sahel, first millennium AD, urbanism, climate change

Timbuktu, an iconic destination for medieval caravans crossing the Sahara, has a prehistoric phase, here before AD... more Timbuktu, an iconic destination for medieval caravans crossing the Sahara, has a prehistoric phase, here before AD 1000, which shows varying urban traits. The author's new project examines the context of Timbuktu's prehistoric urbanism by mapping the settlement patterns in its hinterland, and seeks to understand the social impacts of the Sahara's changing climate.

Climate Change, Human Response, and the Origins of Urbanism at Timbuktu: Archaeological Investigations into the Prehistoric Urbanism of the Timbuktu Region on the Niger Bend, Mali, West Africa

by Douglas Park 

Douglas P. Park (2011). Ph.D. Thesis, Yale University, Dept. Anthropology
574 Pages

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This research explores human response to climate change and asks how this interaction may have helped to form the large-scale prehistoric urbanism in the Timbuktu region. New understandings on the nature of prehistoric urbanism on the Niger Bend have been laid out by employing various theories and working models that deal with the social relationship with the changing climate and seasonal environment. The archaeological data used to address these theories and models were obtained over three seasons of research between 2008 and 2010. Field research involved intensive excavation and survey at the Iron Age tell complex of Tombouze (9 kilometers southeast of modern Timbuktu). Additionally, a wide ranging reconnaissance of the larger Timbuktu region and various forms of paleo-climate studies were also undertaken.

My findings suggest that the roles of changing climate regimes, a highly variable seasonal environment, and the unique ways local populations interacted with a difficult and marginal landscape, were all important in the formation of a dense and expansive prehistoric urban landscape. Incipient and small-scale semi-sedentary groups which came to the Timbuktu region at approximately 500 BC gave rise to a fully permanent yet highly flexible form of urbanism circa AD 650. Abandonment of the large urban centers and their hinterlands occurred at approximately AD 1000, soon before the foundation of historic Timbuktu by the Tuareg.

Investigation and analysis into the unique character of the prehistoric settlements of the Timbuktu region has produced a new hypothetical model of urbanism which may have application to the rest of the Niger Bend region. Known as the "Tombouze Model", this hypothetical construct suggests that urbanism fluctuates on a seasonal basis in accordance with the high and low flood seasons. During the high flood season, when dry land is limited, the prehistoric urban populations coalesced onto numerous large focus tells reaching probable dimensions of up to 100 hectares. During the low flood season, when land is plentiful but water scarce, the prehistoric populations radiated out into the hinterlands of the focus tells establishing temporary yet specialized seasonal camps in the floodplains while a much reduced permanently inhabited settlement core remained at the focus tells.

Throwing Small Vessels in the LM IB Mochlos Potter's Pit

by Douglas Park 

Douglas P. Park (2007). Written with J. Morrison, published in INSTAP Study Center for East Crete, Kentro Newsletter

The most practical way one can understand ancient technology is to build it, use it, experience the inherent setbacks,... more The most practical way one can understand ancient technology is to build it, use it, experience the inherent setbacks, and make informed adjustments. Through experimentation we reconstructed how a Minoan potter at Mochlos would have produced cups, bowls, small jars, and jugs. Understanding how potters organized themselves to produce pottery is one insight into how Minoan craftsmen and craftswomen thought about their environment and their trade. Experimental archaeology and anthropological theory in Bronze Age studies are central to the reconstruction of all aspects of human activity. The study of the cultural process of human activity is a field of research that has the ability to breathe life into the archaeological record, for it brings the dynamic to the static.

Reconstructing the Ritual Killing of the Ceramic Vessels from Mycenaean Tomb 15: Mochlos, Crete

by Douglas Park 

Co-Authored with J. Morisson (2008) Published in in Jeff Soles (ed.) Mochlos IIA: The Mycenaean Settlement. INSTAP Press: Philadelphia.

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The aim of anthropology and archaeology is to explain and explain the physical and... more Introductory Paragraph:

The aim of anthropology and archaeology is to explain and explain the physical and cultural characteristics of humankind's entire existence across space and through time. Experimental research creates a dynamic physical analogy that allows the archaeologist to develop plausible interpretations of changes in cultural process by linking the types of artifacts they collect in the field with specific human activities. In other words, experimentation gives aspect to the static archaeological assemblage, allowing the archaeologist to understand the interactive relationships between artifact and person in the past. Being able to ascertain changes in the cultural process, along with having an appreciation for environmental conditions, allows for an understanding of how cultural and personal agencies interact with the adoption and adaptation of internal and external cultural influences.

Raman and XRD studies of black pigment from Cucuteni ceramics

by Andrei Ionut Apopei

Nicolae Buzgar, George Bodi, Andrei Buzatu, Andrei Ionut Apopei, Dan Astefanei

The black pigment of 112 Cucuteni A and Cucuteni B pottery has been analyzed through Raman spectroscopy. The black... more The black pigment of 112 Cucuteni A and Cucuteni B pottery has been analyzed through Raman spectroscopy. The black pigment contains pyrolusite and jacobsite; quartz and anatase have only accidentally been observed. Black Carbon was also identified, but only in two samples. The spherical or oblate black corpuscles discovered at Feteşti-La Schit (Suceava county) were analyzed by means of X-ray diffractometry and Raman spectroscopy. They consist of Mn ± Fe oxihydroxides and quartz. No Mn carbonates or silicates have been identified. The mineralogical composition of the pigment applied to the pottery shards, as well as that of the raw pigment, together with the use of the same pigment over a long period of time (1100 years), suggest the exploitation of a large.

Un puits de l’époque paléochrétienne sur l’agora d’Argos, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, 126, 2002 (2003), 331-413.

by Askold Ivantchik

Ceramica dal Monastero della Theotokos nel Wadi 'Ayn al-Kanisah – Monte Nebo

by Carmelo Pappalardo

Ceramica e piccoli oggetti dallo scavo della chiesa del Reliquiario ad Umm al-Rasas

by Carmelo Pappalardo

Lucerne di periodo arabo (VII-IX sec) rinvenute negli scavi di Umm al-Rasas –Kasstron Mefaa e nella regione del Nebo in Giordania

by Carmelo Pappalardo

Langenthal, St. Urbanstrasse 40–44. Die Hafner Staub und ihre Werkstatt

by Andreas Heege

Archäologie Bern/Archéologie bernoise 2011, 2011, 209-288.

Hafnerei, 18.-19. Jh., Kanton Bern, Schweiz, Geschirrproduktion, Kachelofenproduktion, Fayencekachelöfen, Ofenmaler Johann Heinrich Egli, Kachelöfen ca. 1780-1850, Töpferöfen, kilns, fayence production,

Chapple, R. M. 2009 'Excavations at Ballyloran, Larne, county Antrim' Ulster Journal of Archaeology 68, 1-26.

by Robert M Chapple

Topsoil stripping by Northern Archaeological Consultancy Ltd at a development site at Ballyloran, Larne, in 2005... more Topsoil stripping by Northern Archaeological Consultancy Ltd at a development site at Ballyloran, Larne, in 2005 revealed five areas (Sites 1–5) of archaeological potential. Sites 1 and 2 produced evidence of both ritual and domestic activity, including the deliberate deposition of unworked stones during the Early Neolithic period. A second phase of occupation occurred during the Late Bronze Age. A similar preoccupation with the deliberate burial of stones was noted at Site 3, though dated to the end of the Late Neolithic and into the beginning of the Early Bronze Age. Site 5 revealed extensive remains from the Early Neolithic and appeared to be formally divided into areas of domestic activity and ritual deposition. The domestic area was centred on a number of metalled surfaces around a large trough-like feature, while the ritual area was composed of a low hollow with a metalled base and a vertically set stone, surrounded by a low bank. Significant quantities of flint and pottery were deposited in this area.