Ceramic Petrography: The Interpretation of Archaeological Pottery & Related Artefacts in Thin Section
Ceramic Petrography: The Interpretation of Archaeological Pottery & Related Artefacts in Thin Section

Author: Patrick Sean Quinn

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2013-02-15

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1789699428

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Thin section ceramic petrography is a versatile interdisciplinary analytical tool for the characterization and interpretation of archaeological pottery. Using over 200 photomicrographs of thin sections from a diverse range of artefacts, time periods and geographic regions, this provides comprehensive guidelines for their study within archaeology.

Thin-section Petrography of Ceramic Materials
Thin-section Petrography of Ceramic Materials

Author: Sarah E. Peterson

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781931534550

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As part of the INSTAP Archaeological Excavation Manual series, Thin-Section Petrography of Ceramic Materials provides a concise overview of the history and application of the practice while detailing how this type of petrographic analysis can benefit archaeologists in the field. When thin-section analysis is employed as part of a thorough, multi-disciplinary study of ceramic materials, it provides a wealth of additional interpretative data to archaeologists, allowing for more accurate interpretations of the past, especially regarding pottery production, provenance, variations in technology over time and space, exchange networks on local and non-local scales, and even social issues such as choices of both manufacturers and consumers and traditions of manufacture.

The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Ceramic Analysis
The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Ceramic Analysis

Author: Alice M. W. Hunt

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 777

ISBN-13: 0199681538

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This volume draws together topics and methodologies essential for the socio-cultural, mineralogical, and geochemical analysis of archaeological ceramic, one of the most complex and ubiquitous archaeomaterials in the archaeological record. It provides an invaluable resource for archaeologists, anthropologists, and archaeological materials scientists.

Pottery in Archaeology
Pottery in Archaeology

Author: Clive Orton

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1107008743

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This is an up-to-date account of the different kinds of information that can be obtained through the archaeological study of pottery.

Thin Section Petrography, Geochemistry and Scanning Electron Microscopy of Archaeological Ceramics
Thin Section Petrography, Geochemistry and Scanning Electron Microscopy of Archaeological Ceramics

Author: Patrick Sean Quinn

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2022-07-14

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 1803272716

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Using over 400 colour figures of a diverse range of artefact types and archaeological periods from 50 countries worldwide, this book outlines the mineralogical, chemical and microstructural composition of ancient ceramics and provides comprehensive guidelines for their scientific study within archaeology.

Materiality, Techniques and Society in Pottery Production
Materiality, Techniques and Society in Pottery Production

Author: Daniel Albero Santacreu

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 619

ISBN-13: 311042729X

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Daniel Albero Santacreu presents a wide overview of certain aspects of the pottery analysis and summarizes most of the methodological and theoretical information currently applied in archaeology in order to develop wide and deep analysis of ceramic pastes. The book provides an adequate framework for understanding the way pottery production is organised and clarifies the meaning and role of the pottery in archaeological and traditional societies. The goal of this book is to encourage reflection, especially by those researchers who face the analysis of ceramics for the first time, by providing a background for the generation of their own research and to formulate their own questions depending on their concerns and interests. The three-part structure of the book allows readers to move easily from the analysis of the reality and ceramic material culture to the world of the ideas and theories and to develop a dialogue between data and their interpretation. Daniel Albero Santacreu is a Lecturer Assistant in the University of the Balearic Islands, member of the Research Group Arqueo UIB and the Ceramic Petrology Group. He has carried out the analysis of ceramics from several prehistoric societies placed in the Western Mediterranean, as well as the study of handmade pottery from contemporary ethnic groups in Northeast Ghana.

Thin-Section Petrography of Ceramic Materials
Thin-Section Petrography of Ceramic Materials

Author: Sarah E. Peterson

Publisher: INSTAP Academic Press

Published: 2009-08-10

Total Pages: 29

ISBN-13: 1623031265

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As part of the INSTAP Archaeological Excavation Manual series, Thin-Section Petrography of Ceramic Materials provides a concise overview of the history and application of the practice while detailing how this type of petrographic analysis can benefit archaeologists in the field. When thin-section analysis is employed as part of a thorough, multi-disciplinary study of ceramic materials, it provides a wealth of additional interpretative data to archaeologists, allowing for more accurate interpretations of the past, especially regarding pottery production, provenance, variations in technology over time and space, exchange networks on local and non-local scales, and even social issues such as choices of both manufacturers and consumers and traditions of manufacture.