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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Pottery Production"”.
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Technical choice in pottery production : a west Mexican example
This thesis identifies the pottery engineering techniques of ancient Mexican potters from the site of La Queseria in the Balsas depression of Guerrero. I used data from petrography, geologic maps, clays from the area, x-ray diffraction and mechanical testing to determine whether these potters were …
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Women Livelihood Improvement through Small Scale Pottery Production at Kiembesamaki Zanzibar
… system and lack of appropriate knowledge on pottery processing skills. In Kiembesamaki village various methodologies and methods were used in this work. The details of information revealed through individual interviews, observation focus group discussion, Questionnaire, documentary review …
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Sequential slab construction : a Near Eastern pottery production technology, 8000-3000 B.C.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 1985.
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Pottery Production, Mortuary Practice, and Social Complexity in the Majiayao Culture, NW China (ca. 5300-4000 BP)
… 5300-4000 BP) is famous for its stunning painted pottery vessels. First discovered in the 1920s in northwestern China, these Neolithic painted pottery vessels have become one of the most popular icons used to depict the rich material culture of ancient China. Today, many museums throughout the …
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Sourcing the clay: Iron Age pottery production around Poole Harbour and the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, UK.
… ubiquitous types of Romano-British coarseware pottery, Black- burnished ware 1 (BB1), was produced around the shores of Poole Harbour, in South East Dorset. Previous researchers have shown that this industry was already well- established by the 1st century BC, while reports documenting …
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Ceramic traditions and ceramic landscapes of the Indus Civilisation: investigating the technologies and socio-economic complexity of rural pottery production in Bronze Age northwest India.
… rural dynamics, including lifestyles, craft production and knowledge-scapes are often perceived as being marginal. The rural settlements that have been studied are located at varying distances from large-scale sites, each showing a range of phases of occupation chronologically spanning from …
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The Origins and Development of the Verwood-Type Pottery Industry
… have attempted to develop an understanding of pottery production along the east Dorset and west Hampshire border; these studies have predominantly focused on manufacture of post-medieval date. Despite this, little has been achieved in determining any medieval origins, or the organisation of …
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RECONSTRUCTING PHOENICIAN POTTERY PRODUCTION IN SARDINIA: A MULTI ANALYTICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF SAMPLES FROM THE SITE OF PANI LORIGA (8-7TH CENTURY BC) AND MONTE SIRAI (6-5TH CENTURY BC)
… archaeometric characterization of 53 pottery samples from two archaeological sites, Monte Sirai and Pani Loriga. Both sites are Phoenician-Punic colonies (7th-8th century BCE for Pani Loriga and 5th-6th century BCE for Monte Sirai) located in southwestern Sardinia, Italy. The analyses …
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Exploring the Shivwits production zone
… the Shivwits Plateau; A specific question about pottery production guides the second part of the research. Was the sherd-tempered Shivwits Plain and Shivwits Corrugated pottery produced on the Shivwits Plateau? Samples collected from five sites on the Plateau are examined. Temporal analysis and …
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Ancient engineering : selective ceramic processing in the Middle Balsas Region of Guerrero, Mexico
Previous experimental research into ancient pottery production has proven that potters can produce vessels with varying materials properties, such as thermal shock resistance and permeability. These properties are differentially useful for certain tasks, such as cooking or water-cooling. In certain …
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Indigenous pottery from Sonora, Mexico: examining typologies and spatial distribution
… of prehistoric and protohistoric Sonoran pottery is necessary to establish a methodological consensus for classifications and typologies. On a broader level, prehistoric Sonora rests at the center of two long-standing debates: (1) the relationship between nascent pottery production, …
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Safe water storage in Kenya's modified clay pot : standardization, tap design, and cost recovery
… lid, and a tap to prevent recontamination. Three pottery production sites were visited in order to document, analyze, and suggest improvements for the design of the modified clay pots, specifically with regards to the standardization of the size and shape of the pots, so as to allow simple and …
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THE HALAF AND THE UBAID PERIODS IN THE EASTERN TIGRIS REGION: A MULTI-SCALAR APPROACH FOR DOCUMENTING CULTURAL CHANGE
… changes in the structuring of space and in pottery production are identified. Technological observations on the ceramic assemblage from Helawa suggest new trends in the manufacturing process during the 5th millennium, while modifications in vessel shapes are detected through a …
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Reintroducing women into the ancient Athenian public sphere: an analysis of female depictions on Attic Athenian pottery from late 6th and 5th centuries BCE
… of these ideas in categorizing Greek Women on pottery during the 7th-5th centuries BCE. It draws on recent research that pulls women from the private sphere and into the public sphere through pottery production to ultimately answer the question: How have early interpretations of pottery and …
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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.
… which suggest that the army was making its own pottery on an appreciable 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 …
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Modeling the Mechanics of Temple Production in the Middle Kingdom: An Investigation of the Shena of Divine Offerings Adjacent to the Mortuary Temple of Senwosret III at Abydos, Egypt
… used by the ancient Egyptians to denote a food production area, primarily of bread and beer, which was attached to religious institutions. As a production area, the shena represented a place of pivotal importance in the economic structure of the Egyptian temple as a producer of divine offerings, …
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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.
… suite of southern material culture including pottery, architectural styles, and accounting devices across northern Mesopotamia. This phenomenon remains a key, yet contentious issue in archaeological literature following three decades of debate: Current arguments for the transmission of the …
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The Political Economy of Ceramic Production in Barbados: From plantation industry to craft production
… 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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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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