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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Ceramic production"”.
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Parowan Pottery and Fremont Complexity: Late Formative Ceramic Production and Exchange
… that are not ecological, the organization of production and exchange of ceramic vessels. Following criteria suggested by Brown et al. (1990), I argue that the following need to be addressed prior to a useful discussion of intergroup trade: the source of the raw materials of the exchanged …
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Ceramic production and distribution in protopalatial Crete : technological, economic and social perspectives.
… IIB phase of the Protopalatial period. The fine ceramics of the village site of Myrtos Pyrgos are very similar to those at the palatial site of Mallia. Other sites in East Crete, such as Gournia and Vasiliki, also share the same fine pottery styles. These patterns of ceramic stylistic regionalism …
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The Political Economy of Ceramic Production in Barbados: From plantation industry to craft production
… historical, and ethnographic data regarding ceramic production in Barbados during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. The project uses multiscalar analysis, microhistory, and craft and industrial production as lenses for examining the production, distribution and use of local …
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Assessment of clayey raw material suitability for ceramic production in Northern Peloponnese : an archaeometric approach
… Peloponnese, which were potentially used for ceramic production during antiquity and also to provide a detailed characterization and comparison as to their compositional and technological properties. This was accomplished by the systematic sampling of Holocene, Plio-Pleistocene and Pliocene …
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The Archaeology of Hittite Imperialism and Ceramic Production in Late Bronze Age IIA Tarsus-Gözlükule, Turkey
<p>The Late Bronze IIA (LB IIA) period signaled a change in the material culture of Tarsus-Gözlükule, an urban center in Cilicia, southern Turkey. Written sources and archaeological evidence indicate that the LB IIA coincided with the expansion of the Hittite Empire into the region. Previous …
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Situating the Pot and Potter: Ceramic Production and Use at the Silvercreek Sites, Two Early-Late Woodland Sites in Elgin County, Ontario
… Late Woodland period. In order to understand the production and use of ceramic vessels at the sites, a wide range of ceramic attributes are recorded and analyzed. A second component of the research is to understand the settlement patterns at the site, in order to determine how space was organized …
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Social Interaction, Integration, and Alliances: Yavi-Chicha Ceramic Production and Circulation in the Border Region of Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile, A.D. 1000-1550
… and Chile). This research examines patterns of ceramic production, circulation, and consumption of Yavi-Chicha pottery from a multiscalar perspective. Methodologically, this dissertation merges technological styles and provenance studies (studied through macroscopic, petrographic, and neutron …
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Sorting out ceramics : correlating change in the technology of ceramic production with the chronology of 18th and early 19th century western BaTswana towns
… had significant effects on the scale of production at these new centres. Whereas earlier, small populations were largely self-supporting in basic needs such as agriculture and pottery manufacture, large, centralized populations required controlled maintenance of food and other natural …
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Social Transformations and Ceramic Production during the 4th millennium BCE in the Shahrizor Plain and Bazyan Valley, Iraqi Kurdistan. A Geochemical and Petrographic Study.
… version of the chaîne opératoire, I utilise ceramic petrography to investigate provenance which I couple with pXRF for bulk ceramic composition, and to compliment the petrographic study. FTIR enables examination of pottery firing temperature. This PhD provides new insights into the Uruk …
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Ceramic production in a Roman frontier zone: A comparative Neutron Activation and Petro-Textural analysis of Roman coarse pottery from selected sites on and around the Antonine wall, Scotland.
… scale. This was at a time when pottery production was thought to have moved almost exclusively into civilian hands. The possible local ware groups identified by the excavations were largely independent of firm source indicators such as kiln and waster material and the number of available …
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Utilitarian and Industrial Ceramics of Montana in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
… What type of utilitarian and industrial ceramics were being produced or brought into Montana in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? This question came from correspondences with the Montana Historical Society where the main research took place. This research was conducted in …
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Utilitarian and Industrial Ceramics of Montana in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
… What type of utilitarian and industrial ceramics were being produced or brought into Montana in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? This question came from correspondences with the Montana Historical Society where the main research took place. This research was conducted in …
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Mobile Practices and the Production and Curation of Pottery: A View from the Ancient Southern Russian Steppe Using Portable Methods of Investigation
… of Kalmykia, this dissertation focused on the production and curation of pottery in contexts associated with the emergence and subsequent development of mobile pastoralism from the late fifth millennium BCE to first few centuries CE on the dry steppe. In order to reconstruct the ceramic …
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Palimpsests, Activities, and Archaeological Taxonomy: Implications from Late Plains Woodland Components (AD 500-1000) of the Hamon Site in Northeastern Kansas
… remains of the site occupants include lithic and ceramic production, with evidence for a possible open fire kiln, and inhumation of the deceased. The analysis also reveals that a revision of archaeological taxonomy is needed for several designation units in the Late Plains Woodland Period (AD …
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Black Gloss Ceramics From Cerveteri: The Vigna Marini Project 2012
… is threefold: to catalogue the black gloss ceramics excavated by the Vigna Marini project in Cerveteri in 2012; to understand the relationship between Rome and Caere in terms of ceramic production, especially in the third century BCE; and to highlight the importance of archaeometric analysis …
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Tradizione manifatturiera ceramica sarda. Processi produttivi e botteghe in età postclassica all'origine dell'artigianato attuale.
The project “Sardinian ceramic manufacturing tradition. Production processes and workshops in the post-classical age at the origin of the current craftsmanship” has the so called “ceramica steccata” as its object, a ceramic production peculiar to Sardinia during the late antiquity, and it refers to …
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Hohokam Population Dynamics: Settlement Organization and Migration at the Sabino Canyon Ruin Site, Arizona
… including architecture, trade, subsistence, and ceramic production. Contemporaneous with these changes, there was an influx of people from the north who migrated into the Tucson Basin. The archaeological record of several Classic Period sites in the Tucson Basin demonstrates the presence of …
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Anatolian Ceramics: A Reflection of Society and Culture
<p>From prehistory to the modern period, ceramics have played an important role in human life. This paper focuses on the history of pottery in Anatolia (Asia Minor, present day Turkey). One of the culturally richest areas in the Mediterranean, Anatolia is nestled between Europe, Asia, and Africa. …
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Funerary Practice and Community Identities in the Bacong Region of Negros Island, Central Philippines
… yet affiliative technological traits in ceramic production. The analysis identifies patterns in mortuary practices and technological traditions across the Metal Period and Proto-Historic period. Differences in burial assemblages, vessel forms, and the presence of imported goods indicate …
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