The Complex Past of Pottery
Author: Jan Paul Crielaard
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-12-11
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 900466887X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProceedings of the ARCHON International Conference, held in Amsterdam,1996.
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The Complex Past of Pottery
Author: ARCHON (Organization). International Conference
Publisher: Brill
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 338
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKProceedings of the ARCHON International Conference, held in Amsterdam,1996.
Painted Pottery Production and Social Complexity in Neolithic Northwest China
Author: Ling-Yu Hung
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports (Oxford) Limited
Published: 2021-08-31
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781407358789
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study focuses on Neolithic period Majiayao-style painted pottery from Northwest China, which is known for its high quality and beautiful décor. While much is known about the pottery, research on the associated Majiayao Culture has previously been limited to cultural histories that emphasize chronology and trait-list classification, leading to a static and simplistic view of past realities. This study instead focuses on the long-overlooked social and economic processes behind the production of these vessels. Attribute and physicochemical analyses of hundreds of ceramic vessels and samples selected from multiple sites in Gansu, Qinghai, and Sichuan provinces are combined with settlement pattern and mortuary analyses of thousands of sites and burials. By synthesizing these data, this study illustrates a positive correlation between regional density of settlement distribution, intensification of pottery production, and degree of social inequality in each phase. Rather than showing a simple linear process of increasing social complexity, however, distinct regional variations in each phase and significant regional fluctuations over time can be seen. The results of this study demonstrate that economic and social patterns related to Majiayao ceramics were far more complex than previously thought.
Pottery and People
Author: James M. Skibo
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: 1999-01-14
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 0874805775
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume emphasizes the complex interactions between ceramic containers and people in past and present contexts. Pottery, once it appears in the archaeological record, is one of the most routinely recovered artifacts. It is made frequently, broken often, and comes in endless varieties according to economic and social requirements. Moreover, even in shreds ceramics can last almost forever, providing important clues about past human behavior. The contributors to this volume, all leaders in ceramic research, probe the relationship between humans and ceramics. Here they offer new discoveries obtained through traditional lines of inquiry, demonstrate methodological breakthroughs, and expose innovative new areas for research. Among the topics covered in this volume are the age at which children begin learning pottery making; the origins of pottery in the Southwest U.S., Mesoamerica, and Greece; vessel production and standardization; vessel size and food consumption patterns; the relationship between pottery style and meaning; and the role pottery and other material culture plays in communication. Pottery and People provides a cross-section of the state of the art, emphasizing the complete interactions between ceramic containers and people in past and present contexts. This is a milestone volume useful to anyone interested in the connections between pots and people.
Use and Appreciation of Mycenaean Pottery in the Levant, Cyprus and Italy (1600-1200 BC)
Author: Gert Jan van Wijngaarden
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9053564829
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Italian Pottery Marks: Righting History
Author: Walter & Karen Del Pellegrino
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2005-08
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 1411645065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRe-evaluating the British & American viewOf the works of Master ceramicistAchille Farina
Greek Iron Age Pottery in the Mediterranean World
Author: Stefanos Gimatzidis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2024-06-06
Total Pages: 543
ISBN-13: 1009474839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGreek pottery is the most visible archaeological evidence of social and economic relations between the Aegean and the Mediterranean during the Iron Age, a period of intense mobility. This book presents a holistic study of the earliest Greek pottery exchanged in Greek, Phoenician, and other Indigenous Mediterranean cultural contexts from multidisciplinary perspectives. It offers an examination of 362 Protogeometric and Geometric ceramic and clay samples, analysed by Neutron Activation, that Stefanos Gimatzidis obtained in twenty-four sites and regions in eight countries. Bringing a macro-historical approach to the topic through a systematic survey of early Greek pottery production, exchange, and consumption, the volume also provides a micro-history of selected ceramic assemblages analysed by a team of scholars who specialise in Classical, Near Eastern, and various prehistoric archaeologies. The results of their collaborative archaeological and archaeometric studies challenge previous reconstructions of intercultural relations between the Aegean and the Mediterranean and call into question established narratives about Greek and Phoenician migration.
Attic Fine Pottery of the Archaic to Hellenistic Periods in Phanagoria
Author: Catherine A. Morgan
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9004138889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis publication of Attic fine pottery imported to the Greek colony of Phanagoria in the Taman Peninsula, southern Russia, explores the social function of imports in a colonial society, and the changing nature of Black Sea trade.
The Ceramic Sequence of the Holmul Region, Guatemala
Author: Michael G. Callaghan
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2016-11-29
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0816531943
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew and comprehensive sequencing of the ceramics in Guatemala's Holmul region provides answers to important questions in Maya archaeology. In this comprehensive and highly illustrated new study, authors Callaghan and Neivens de Estrada use type: variety-mode classification to define a ceramic sequence that spans approximately 1,600 years.
Mediterranean Connections
Author: A. Bernard Knapp
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-08-25
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1134992769
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMediterranean Connections focuses on the origin and development of maritime transport containers from the Early Bronze through early Iron Age periods (ca. 3200–700 BC). Analysis of this category of objects broadens our understanding of ancient Mediterranean interregional connections, including the role that shipwrecks, seafaring, and coastal communities played in interaction and exchange. These containers have often been the subject of specific and detailed pottery studies, but have seldom been examined in the context of connectivity and trade in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean. This broad study: considers the likely origins of these types of vessels; traces their development and spread throughout the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean as archetypal organic bulk cargo containers; discusses the wider impact on Mediterranean connections, transport and trade over a period of 2,500 years covering the Bronze and early Iron Ages. Classical and Near Eastern archaeologists and historians, as well as maritime archaeologists, will find this extensively researched volume an important addition to their library.
