ceramics
An Experimental Approach to Studying the Technology of Pottery Decoration
***The early Middle Chalcolithic pottery tradition of Seh Gabi Tepe in Iran is called Dalma tradition. Among the different types of Dalma pottery, I have focused on monochrome painted ceramics, to investigate, by means of experimental analysis, how their decoration technology was undertaken...
Parque Arqueológico de Burrén (ES)
The archaeological park of the Early Iron Age is located at the bank of the river Huecha in the municipality of Zaragoza Fréscano, at the foot of the archaeological site of Burrén-Burrena after which it is named, belonging to the so-called Urnfield Culture. It is the first archaeological park in Spain devoted to this period of prehistory, and aims to combine interdisciplinary teaching and archaeological research in a single project.
The archaeological park of the Early Iron Age is located at the bank of the river Huecha in the municipality of Zaragoza Fréscano, at the foot of the archaeological site of...
Technical Elements for Etruscan-Padan Kilns Firing and Female Labour Connected to These Tools
Results of a Discussion on the State of Experimental Archaeology in Switzerland
Scandinavian Iron Age and Early Medieval Ceramic Moulds - Lost Wax or Not or Both?
***Since the 1940s we have had a discussion in Scandinavia concerning ancient mould-making methods. The question of different methods in the production of ceramic moulds has taken a large part in these discussions; by lost wax or by direct matrix-methods...
Probable Measure Estimating Tool Employed by the Aeneolithic Potters
Are baking plates, typical for the middle and late Neolithic cultures of western Europe also known from the younger Neolithic (FR)?
Baking plates are known from the Cerny- und Chassey-cultures, the Bourgogne middle-Neolithic and the Michelsberg-culture, ca. 4500-3500 BC). Their use seem to stop abruptly around 3500 BC caused by another way of baking bread. Maybe from this time onward, people used to bake directly on hot ashes, hot stones, pots or the inner walls of furnaces...
What contacts existed between the inhabitants of the lake fortress and other countries (LV)?
In the Early Middle Ages, active trading contacts developed in Latvia, also involving the inhabitants of the lake fortress. Imported jewellery and parts of weapons have been found in the cultural layer...
What can the study of pre- and protohistoric pottery contribute to the knowledge of the contemporan society (FR)?
Analysis of pottery gives us the possibility to answer questions concerning functional, economical and social aspects of the groups, having produced this ceramics...