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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"ceramic analysis"”.
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A Regional Ceramic Analysis of Iron Age II Southeastern Arabia
… Arabia and the ways in which we can use ceramic evidence to investigate them. The ceramic evidence shows that the process cannot be explained using traditional paradigms of intensification used in Near Eastern archaeology, such as evolutionary state-formation or a center/periphery …
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Ceramic analysis and interpretation from Presidio San Saba (41MN1) Menard, Texas
… 1757 to 1772. By describing and analyzing the ceramic artifacts recovered at this site, it is possible to understand the lifeways of the men and women who lived at the fort. Ceramic analysis provides details about the use of rooms throughout the site as well as contributes to knowledge of trade …
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Sherds With Style: A Ceramic Analysis From A Protohistoric Site In Oktibbeha County, Mississippi.
… as a dispersed settlement pattern with distinct ceramic assemblages associated with European metal. The ceramics are characterized as sandy historic Chickasaw pastes with Mississippian-like distinct curvilinear or angular surface decorations. This thesis is an analysis of the ceramic assemblage …
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Revisiting Magee: A Mississippian Mound Center Site
… of controlled surface collection, type-variety ceramic analysis, and spatial distribution of artifacts. The results of ceramic analysis provides evidence that Magee is likely at the peak of its population during the Lake George phase, ca. A.D. 1400, as there were more sherds recovered that date …
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Foodways of the mid-18th century Cape : archaeological ceramics from the Grand Parade in central Cape Town
… argument are centred around the question of the ceramics and how these can be interpreted to add to the knowledge of everyday life at the Cape. This involved excavation of the site, a descriptive report on the site, formulating a typological system of classification relevant to the sample, and …
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Settlement, Mobility, and the Organization of Technology at the Clark Lake Site (22SH535): A Small-Scale Woodland Settlement
… Lower Mississippi Valley has largely focused on ceramic analysis of assemblages from large-scale settlements. Very little research has been conducted on lithic technology, particularly debitage from small sites. The Clark Lake site in the Lower Yazoo Basin is a small-scale settlement with …
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Temper, Mounds, And Palisades: The Walford Site (22Su501) Of Sunflower County, Mississippi
… one of the mounds. Using stratigraphy, GIS, and ceramic analysis, the date of this palisade was determined to be Late Woodland or Early Mississippian.
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Research report on archaeological investigations at Hun Tun
… in terms of chronology and possible function. Ceramic analysis suggests a single occupation with a Late Classic hiatus. Analysis of field research will be limited to studies of settlement patterns, chronological sequencing of courtyard spaces and proposed function of limestone features. These …
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Pottery is king: bevel rim bowls and power in early urban societies of the ancient Near East
… is about how material objects, specifically ceramics, are used to create and perpetuate political power of the ruling class. My research will demonstrate how bevel rim bowls were a form of structural violence in the Uruk/Protoliterate period Mesopotamia by forcing the people to create the …
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Ceramics of Aztec north and the terrace community, Aztec Ruins National Monument
<p>This study reports on a ceramic analysis of nearly 1500 surface-collected potsherds from five unexcavated sites on the river terrace at Aztec Ruins National Monument, including the Aztec North great house. I conducted a detailed attribute analysis and mean ceramic dating.</p> <p>The mean ceramic …
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Prehistoric Life on the Mississippi Coast: Chronology and Function of Ceramics from Three Shell Middens in the Grand Bay Estuary
<p>This study analyzes ceramic assemblages with radio carbon dates produced from three archaeological sites, 22JA564, 22JA575, and 22JA633, with a view to determine the types and varieties of containers brought to and used at each site. The study area is located in the extreme eastern end of the …
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A comparison of the commoner material culture to that of the elite material culture at Great Zimbabwe
… difference between the material cultures. The ceramic analysis showed an expansion of Great Zimbabwe over time. These results are important and offer a new perspective on the social stratigraphy of the Great Zimbabwe civilization. The differences found related to objects of power, such as stone …
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Mapping the Composition and Distribution of Medieval Pottery in South East Wales
… is concerned with the provenancing by chemical analysis, or chemical fingerprinting, of Welsh medieval ceramics.<br/><br/>The study initially presents an overview and summary of our knowledge of the medieval Welsh ceramic industry as it currently stands. Subsequent chapters present additional …
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Collaborative Legacy of the First Ceramics Laboratories at the Penn Museum: The WPA and Beyond
… projects were those undertaken by the WPA ceramics laboratories, a joint effort between the Works Progress Administration and the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania (now called the Penn Museum), which employed federally funded workers and the burgeoning methods of ceramic …
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The historical archaeology of Marothodi : towards an understanding of space, identity and the organisation of production at an early 19th century Tlokwa capital in the Pilansberg region of South Africa
… of settlement organisation, while preliminary ceramic analysis contributes to an understanding of ancestral identity, indicating a possible affinity with early Fokeng lineages stemming from Northern Nguni origins. All of the above is relevant to one particular aspect of production. The …
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Exploring the Shivwits production zone
… Shivwits Plateau? Through compiled site data and analysis of settlement models the information supports the conclusion that there was a substantial prehistoric use of the Shivwits Plateau; A specific question about pottery production guides the second part of the research. Was the sherd-tempered …
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The Neolithic pottery of the Isle of Man and its relationship to that of the surrounding area
… was last studied, the aims and methodologies of ceramic analysis have changed significantly, with many more approaches to the data being available to the analyst. This study was therefore able to explore the Manx data from a variety of perspectives so as to produce a biographical view of the …
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The Cupisnique Culture in the Formative Period World of the Central Andes, Peru
… a local chronology of the Formative Period using ceramic data, (2) to identify and reconstruct the developmental process of local cultures and societies in the Chicama Valley and examine the causes of their changes, and (3) to discuss regional interactions between cultures and societies in the …
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Breaking In-To Pottery: An Analysis the Ceramic Assemblage at Huaca del Loro
No abstract prepared.
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Kabeshinàn: Situating the BiFw-6 Site in Broader Regional and Cultural Landscapes
This thesis is an archaeological analysis of the ceramics from the multi-component pre-contact archaeological site BiFw-6, which is located within Leamy Lake Park in Gatineau, QC at the confluence of the Ottawa and Gatineau rivers. BiFw-6 has evidence of human occupation from the Early Woodland …
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