Fired Clay in Four Porcelain Clusters
Fired Clay in Four Porcelain Clusters

Author: Tai Wei Lim

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 2014-09-05

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 0761864296

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Fired Clay in Four Porcelain Clusters examines how energy use in the ceramics-making industry has evolved as a result of technological advancements and changing social norms and ideas in environmental conservation. Three main research themes are highlighted. First, the book examines how the evolving use of energy fuels has impacted the developmental history of the ceramics-making industry, especially with regard to productive output. The second theme focuses on energy use by networks of specialists and technicians in ceramics-making artistic clusters and how ceramicist communities in the world organize themselves institutionally to maximize resource-sharing. Third, at a cognitive level, the volume studies changes in production and design, environmental thinking, energy use, and aesthetic trends among ceramicists and consumers. The four cities or towns of Arita, Hong Kong, Jingdezhen, and Yingge are the settings for this research.

World Trade Systems of the East and West
World Trade Systems of the East and West

Author: Geoffrey C. Gunn

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-11-13

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9004358560

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In World Trade Systems of the East and West, Geoffrey C. Gunn profiles Nagasaki's historic role in mediating the Japanese bullion trade, especially silver exchanged against Chinese and Vietnamese silk. Founded in 1571 as the terminal port of the Portuguese Macau ships, Nagasaki served as Japan's window to the world over long time and with the East-West trade carried on by the Dutch and, with even more vigor, by the Chinese junk trade. While the final expulsion of the Portuguese in 1646 characteristically defines the “closed” period of early modern Japanese history, the real trade seclusion policy, this work argues, only came into place one century later when the Shogunate firmly grasped the true impact of the bullion trade upon the national economy.

Farmsteads and Funerary Sites: The M1 Junction 12 Improvements and the A5–M1 Link Road, Central Bedfordshire
Farmsteads and Funerary Sites: The M1 Junction 12 Improvements and the A5–M1 Link Road, Central Bedfordshire

Author: Jim Brown

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2020-01-31

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 178969261X

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Extensive excavations by MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) near Houghton Regis and Toddington, in south Central Bedfordshire, provide a detailed multi-period dataset for regional and national comparison. Evidence ranges from middle/late Bronze Age pits to medieval settlements.

Patarata Pottery
Patarata Pottery

Author: Barbara L. Stark

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780816511211

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This monograph marks the first presentation of a detailed Classic period ceramic chronology for central and southern Veracruz, the first detailed study of a Gulf Coast pottery production locale, and the first sourcing-distribution study of a Gulf Coast pottery complex.

Origins, Development and Abandonment of an Iron Age Village
Origins, Development and Abandonment of an Iron Age Village

Author: Andy Chapman

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2015-12-31

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1784912190

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Excavations of a large Iron Age farming settlement in Northamptonshite spread across five sites, four studied here (The Lodge, Long Dole, Crick Hotel and Nortoft Lane, Kilsby) with Covert Farm, Crick studied in Volume I (9781784912086).

Materials Analysis of Byzantine Pottery
Materials Analysis of Byzantine Pottery

Author: Henry Maguire

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780884022510

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This publication brings to a wider audience important new findings in the fields of medieval pottery and archaeometry. The new data that materials analysis provides about Byzantine ceramics and their production at times supports, modifies, and even contradicts conclusions derived from traditional archaeological methods.

Ceramics of the Indigenous Cultures of South America
Ceramics of the Indigenous Cultures of South America

Author: Michael D. Glascock

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Published: 2019-03-15

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0826360297

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This cohesive edited volume showcases data collected from more than seven thousand ceramic artifacts including pottery, figurines, clay pipes, and other objects from sites across South America. Covering a time span from 900 BC to AD 1500, the essays by leading archaeologists working in South America illustrate the diversity of ceramic provenance investigations taking place in seven different countries. An introductory chapter provides a background for interpreting compositional data, and a final chapter offers a review of the individual projects. Students, scholars, and researchers in archaeological study on the interactions between the indigenous peoples of South America and studies of their ceramics will find this volume an invaluable reference.

Andean Ceramics
Andean Ceramics

Author: Izumi Shimada

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13:

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Andean Ceramics brings together many important discoveries of the past decade, especially of production loci together with innovative methodologies for their analysis and interpretation. Each chapter is an up-to-date synthesis of one or more of these topics: production technologies, scale and organization of production, and analytical perspectives and methods.