Ceramics (Archaeology)

Studying Neolithic Ceramic Exchange in Dalmatia thru Non-Destructive pXRF Analysis by R. H. Tykot, S. McClure, E. Podrug, J. Balen, A. Moore, L. Coomar and L. Wajahat

by Sarah McClure

Poster presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Oslo, Norway, September 14-18.

Testing Technological Practices: Neutron Activation Analysis of Neolithic Ceramics From Valencia, Spain

by Sarah McClure

Technological style, chaine opératoire and labor investment of early Neolithic pottery

by Sarah McClure

with Joan Bernabeu

Un habitat de l’âge du Bronze à Castidetta-Pozzone (Sartène)

by Kewin Peche-Quilichini

Co-authored with J. Cesari & P. Nebbia
Stantari, 29, 2012, pp. 55-56

Terra sigillata hispânica tardia do concelho de Fronteira: exemplares recolhidos entre 1999 e 2003

by Andre Carneiro

published in "Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia" with Eurico Sepúlveda

The authors study a case of Late Hispanic terra sigillata found within the concelho de Fronteira (Alentejo, Portugal).... more The authors study a case of Late Hispanic terra sigillata found within the concelho de Fronteira (Alentejo, Portugal). Several sherds were excavated and picked up in four archaeological sites: Horta da Torre, Monte de São Francisco, Monte de São Pedro e São Saturnino. They try, as well, to draw a distribution map of this fine Hispanic Samian ware in Portugal.

Social approaches in pottery distribution networks: the case of Upper East Ghana

by David Javaloyas Molina

Published in: Old Pottery Almanack (2011), 16 (1)

This paper analyze the variables which simultaneously influence vessel distribution and consumption patterns in... more This paper analyze the variables which simultaneously influence vessel distribution and consumption patterns in Northeast of Ghana: infrastructure of mobility (roads, means of transport), scale of production and qualities of pots, labour organization, territoriality and settlement. Nevertheless, social and familiar relationships, and also different social perceptions established between the various ethnic groups, are active agents that determine the distribution areas, networks and trade systems as well as the choices of consumers.

Attribute-Based Seriation of Postclassic and Early Colonial Sherd Collections From the Basin of Mexico

by Christopher Garraty

Garraty, Christopher P. (2009)

Intercambio De Mercado Y Consolidación En El Corazón Del Imperio Azteca

by Christopher Garraty

Garraty, Christopher P. (2007)

(English abstract) One important way that empires consolidate power is to undercut the traditional revenue bases of... more (English abstract) One important way that empires consolidate power is to undercut the traditional revenue bases of subject elites and redirect resource flows from subject areas to the imperial capitals. To this end, Aztec imperial rulers implemented a strategy to appropriate marketplace revenues from subject elites in the imperial heartland in the Basin of Mexico. Recent chemistry-based provenance studies of undecorated Aztec plainware and Black-on- orange vessels suggest that pottery made in the Tenochtitlan area penetrated market domains of neighboring polities, including their Acolhua allies in Texcoco. The imperial rulers in Tenochtitlan likely invested in marketplace development to stimulate commercial craft production and export, thus boosting government revenues from market taxation.

Imperial and Social Relations In Postclassic South-Central Veracruz, Mexico

by Christopher Garraty

Garraty, Christopher P., and Barbara L. Stark (2002)

We explore social and imperial relations in the western lower Papaloapan Basin, especially along the lower Blanco... more We explore social and imperial relations in the western lower Papaloapan Basin, especially along the lower Blanco River, using statistical analyses of ceramic rims from recent surveys. This region is sandwiched between two known tributary provincial centers of the Aztec empire, but its relationship to the empire is uncertain in colonial documentary materials. Our analyses illuminate changes in social relations from the Middle (A.D. 1150-1350) to Late Postclassic (A.D. 1350-1520) periods and shed light on the impact of Aztec imperialism. We use a ceramic unmixing procedure to assign collections to the Middle and Late Postclassic periods for assessment of settlement patterns. Next we use cluster analyses to examine vertical wealth and status differentiation. In the Middle Postclassic period, we observe a concentric gradation of wealth and status away from the small center of El Sauce. Late Postclassic changes include the decline of El Sauce and the founding of a new center at Callejo'n del Horno. The concentric model does not apply to the Late Postclassic period, however, and wealth and status became more highly concentrated at Callejon del Horno compared to its hinterland. We also investigate sparse collections-those with few Postclassic rims-to evaluate whether these collections represent poor residences or, rather, sherd scatter from possible field manuring. The lowerBlanco region was likely integrated into the Aztec empire on the basis of changes in vertical social differentiation from Middle to Late Postclassic times and percentages of Aztec-style ceramics compared to known Aztec provincial centers, especially Cotaxtla.

POTTERY FROM CRUSADER ACRE AS EVIDENCE OF CORRELATION BETWEEN POTTERY DISTRIBUTION AND MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN TRADE ROUTES

by Edna J. Stern

Published in: Ten centuries of Byzantine Trade. Bibliotheca VITA ANTIQUA. Collection
of scientific papers. - Kyiv: SPD FOP Chalzev, 2012. - 216 p.: 97
ill., 6 tables.
ISBN: 978-966-876-629-2

The Mediterranean city of Acre (‘Akko) was one of the main ports of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099-1291) and... more The Mediterranean city of Acre (‘Akko) was one of the main ports of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099-1291) and evolved into a thriving maritime commercial center, playing an important role in the trade between Europe, the Crusader Principalities in the East, the Byzantine Empire, and the Moslem states. Crusader-period pottery was revealed in the large-scale excavations carried out by the Israel Antiquities Authority in Acre since the early 1990s. Most of the pottery imported to Acre consisted of various types of mainly glazed plates and bowls dating to the 12th and 13th centuries. Provenience analyses of the finds from Acre show that ceramics were imported from throughout the Mediterranean: Lebanon, Syria, Asia Minor, Cyprus, Greece, northern and southern Italy, Sicily, southern France, Catalonia in Spain, North Africa and China. Categorizing the ceramics found in the excavations at Acre by origin assists in focusing on provenience and seeking a correlation with maritime trade routes. Since similar pottery types as those found in Acre are also found in the main Mediterranean ports, as well as in Mediterranean and Black sea shipwrecks containing homogeneous types of pottery as cargoes, it is assumed that the pottery served for the most part as ‘salable space fillers’ or ‘salable ballast’, and its sale could have provided extra income along the route for the ship master or sailors. It was transported, and occasionally distributed, by ships involved in short- and long-distance trade to and among the main port cites as a secondary item and as a consequence of trade of more valuable goods. The origin of the ceramics and the areas to where they were redistributed was found to reflect the Mediterranean maritime trade routes and major ports of the 12th to 13th centuries.

L'ultimo capitolo della tradizionale produzione ceramica di Barrama (Tunisia), in: Atti 3° Convegno Nazionale di Etnoarcheologia, BAR International Series 1841, 2008, pp. 65-68

by Francesco di Gennaro

Co-authored with A. Depalmas

Dibujo arqueológico: reconstrucción en 3D de cerámica

by Francisco José López Fraile

El dibujo tradicional arqueológico puede ser mejorado gracias a las reconstrucciones de 3D. Esta metodología puede aplicarse a todo tipo de cerámica, aunque es en series cerámicas donde más potencial de optimización supone el trabajo.
Se presenta un ejemplo de loza de época franquista (del "Auxilio Social") documentada en unos sondeos en el patio del Palacio del Infante Don Luis de Boadilla del Monte.

A preliminary catalogue of the stamped and inscribed finds from the 2010 season, Bylazora

by Candace Richards

published by Texas Foundation of Archaeological Research, 2010. http://www.tfahr.org/BP_stamps2010.html

The 2010 excavations at Bylazora were conducted across two sectors of the acropolis: Sector 3 and Sector 6. In... more The 2010 excavations at Bylazora were conducted across two sectors of the acropolis: Sector 3 and Sector 6. In addition to the significant architectural finds in both sectors (see: Bylazora 2010 Summary Report), there were several stamped and inscribed ceramic finds representing a broad range of shapes, fabrics and decorative forms. The following catalogue is a representative selection of the finds, a continuation of the Preliminary Catalogue of the Stamped and Inscribed Ceramic Finds from the 2008 and 2009 Seasons by Mari Malmer. Each find is presented with a catalogue number (numerically following the 2009 catalogue), its basket number and sector (according to the locus system employed during excavations), and the type of fragment, followed by a short description of form and decorative features, stamps or markings. This catalogue is a preliminary presentation only. Further analysis of this material, already underway by several members of the excavation team, will address the significance of the individual finds and their role in understanding the material culture of the Paionians.

A preliminary catalogue of the stamped and inscribed finds from the 2011 season, Bylazora

by Candace Richards

published by Texas Foundation for Archaeological and Historical Research, May 2012. http://www.tfahr.org/BP_stamps2011.html

The excavations of 2011 at Bylazora have again yielded several stamped and inscribed finds related to the later... more The excavations of 2011 at Bylazora have again yielded several stamped and inscribed finds related to the later periods of occupation at the site, corresponding to the ancient Greek late Classical and early Hellenistic periods. Presented here is a continuation of the preliminary catalogue comprised of selected examples from this season. Each find is listed with a catalogue number (numerically following on from the 2010 catalogue), the appropriate basket and sector numbers, and its name or the type of fragment. This is followed by a short description of its form, fabric, all stamps or markings and, where relevant, a note regarding its significance. This catalogue is a preliminary presentation only and thus should be read as an introduction to the types of materials and the stamps or markings being developed, used or imported by this Paionian city.

Ceramics in the African Atlantic: new perspectives on social, economic, political and other everyday interactions

by Liza Gijanto

with Akin Ogundiran

Socio-economic interaction and ceramic aesthetic: understanding West African ceramic production and use in context

by Liza Gijanto

This paper explores the multi-faceted nature of ceramic production and use in the context of contact and interaction... more This paper explores the multi-faceted nature of ceramic production and use in the context of contact and interaction through a detailed examination of pottery manufacture immediately before, during and after the decline of the Atlantic trade at the trading site of Juffure on the Gambia River. It is argued that potters’ decisions during the production process affected the aesthetic qualities of pots, including paste colour, temper, form and decoration and that some of these qualities are the by-products of acts of social displays related to diet. Analysis of ceramics during each phase of the Atlantic trade demonstrates that the potters’ choices were not exclusively expressions of communal ethnic identity of the producers or users. Additionally, the heightened production and eventual abandonment of this industry at Juffure fails to display a relationship between ceramics and personal identity. Rather, it is the broader socio-economic processes such as population fluctuations, consumer demand and socio-economic interactions as opposed to ethnic identity formation and maintenance, that affected shifts in local ceramic production.

ARQUEOLOGÍA Y POBLAMIENTO EN LA MESETA ANDALUSÍ. EL REFERENTE CERÁMICO

by Manuel Retuerce Velasco

Manuel Retuerce (1995): "Arqueología y poblamiento en la Meseta Andalusí. El referente cerámico". V Semana de Estudios Medievales (Nájera, 1994), p. 87-124. Logroño.

Bardel et al. 2011 : BARDEL (D.), MOREAU (C.), KASPRZYK (M.) – Etude de la céramique néolithique, protohistorique et antique du rempart de plateau Saint-Marcel. In : CHAUME (B.), MORDANT (C.).(éd.) — Le complexe aristocratique de Vix. Nouvelles recherches sur l'habitat, le système de fortification et l’environnement du mont Lassois. Dijon : éditions universitaires dijonnaises(Art, archéologie et patrimoine), 201, p. 235 – 288.

by Clément Moreau

Lapita period modelled ceramic face from New Caledonia

by Arnaud Noury

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

by Robert M Chapple