Archaeological ceramics
Subtitle: a review of current research
By: edited by Simona Scarcella
Contributors: European Association of Archaeologists. Meeting
Series: BAR international series -- 2193; BAR international series -- 2193.
Publisher: Archaeopress; British Archaeological Reports
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781407307480
Subjects: Pottery; Congresses; Prehistoric Pottery
Notes: "...originated during a session ... for the 15th European Archaeologist Conference, that was held in Riva del Garda (Trento, Italy) in September 2009..."--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Simona Scarcella; title: Chaîne opératoire and ceramics: classifications and typology, archaeometry, experimental archaeology, and ethnoarchaeology / Charles Kolb; title: Section 1. Typology. Utilitarian and ritual pottery of the Gorokhovo culture: continuity and changes in an ancient society / S. Panteleeva; title: Typological features of impressed ceramic within the stratigraphical sequence of the semicircular concentric ditches in the Neolithic village of Rendina (Potenza, Italy) / F. Occhiogrosso; title: Section 2. Archaeometry. Characterising surviving residues from archaeological ceramics: a biomolecular approach / C. Spiteri, C. Heron, O. Craig; title: Exploring the chaîne opératoire of ceramics through X-radiography / I. Berg; title: The life-history of the potter's wheel in the Ancient Near East / N. Laneri; title: From raw materials to utilisation. Ceramics associated with the metallurgical activity at Valencina De La Concepción (Seville, Spain): technological choices and social implication / N. Inácio ... [et al.]; title: Anthropological interpretation of ceramic assemblages: foundations and implementations of technological analysis / V. Roux; title: section 3. Experimental archaeology. Chaîne opératoire, technical gestures and pottery production at Southern Andes during the Late Period (c. AD 900; title: AD 1450) (Catamarca, Northwestern Argentina, Argentina) / G. De La Fuente; title: An examination of emic possibilities: experimental archaeology and Cypriot ceramic typology / C. Jeffra; title: From clay to sherd: understanding the manufacture, use and taphonomy of prehistoric ceramics by experiment / D. Millson; title: Experimental reconstruction of the pottery firing process of Late Bronze Age pottery from North-Eastern Bohemia / R. Thér, M. Gregor; title: Ritual chains / D. Gheorghiu; title: section 4. Ethnoarchaeology. Microtraditions and agency in domestic pottery production: an ethnoarchaeological perspective / M. Deal; title: The swallow potters: seasonally migratory styles in the Andes / G. Ramon.