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Purposefully purple: understanding the technological transition from late Medieval green to purple glazed Humber wares
The rise of purple glazed pottery in fifteenth-century England represented a major change in the character of domestic material culture. These wares...
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Technological changes in the glazed wares of northern Tunisia in the transition from Fatimid to Zirid rule
A representative selection of glazed ceramics recovered from medieval Islamic contexts excavated in the former Roman port of Utica (North Tunisia)...
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Reassembling the pieces, reassessing the picture: an analytical study of medieval pottery (mid. twelfth–sixteenth c.) from Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus
This paper presents the results of the analytical study of medieval pottery (mid. twelfth–sixteenth centuries AD), both glazed tableware and coarse...
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Roman Republican coarse ware from Norba, Southern Lazio (Italy): a multi-analytical study of production technology and trade
The first objective of this paper is to reconstruct the production technology of fourth–first centuries BCE coarse ware from surveys near the ancient...
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Petrographic and geochemical analyses of Late Bronze and Iron Age pottery from Arslantepe (Malatya, Turkey): insights into the local organization of the production and extra-regional networks of exchange
In this paper, we analyzed Late Bronze and Iron Age pottery assemblages from the site of Arslantepe (Malatya, eastern Turkey) by utilizing a...
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Cooking and common wares in the Late Antique rural site of Plaça Major de Castellar del Vallès (Catalonia, Spain): archaeometric characterization
This paper presents an archaeometric analysis of utilitarian ceramics from a Late Antique rural site in the area of Vallès (Catalonia, Spain), with...
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Effect of waste ceramic sanitary ware as partial replacement of aggregates and cement in concrete
This research aims at deriving the mechanical properties of concrete containing waste ceramic sanitary ware as coarse aggregate, fine aggregate and...
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Standardized patterns in the ceramic craft at Early Bronze Age Helike, Achaea, Greece
This paper investigates the techniques of manufacture for ceramic vessels in the Early Helladic (EH) settlement of Helike, Achaia, and offers...
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Reconstructing settlement histories in the Papua New Guinea Highlands through ceramic analysis and oral traditions
This study explores the scope for using ceramic and geochemical analyses to substantiate narratives about group origins and migrations and...
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To be or not to be local: a provenance study of archaeological ceramics from Shahr-i Sokhta, eastern Iran
Findings from the archaeological site of Shahr-i Sokhta in eastern Iran include a wide range of undecorated, monochrome, and polychrome ceramics with...
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Looking for Ephesian workshops: an integrated petrographic, geochemical, and chrono-typological approach to Late Hellenistic Ephesos lamps
In this pilot study, Late Hellenistic mold-made lamps from Ephesos are investigated by combining chrono-morphological and stylistic features with...
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The potters of Kom Dahab: the ceramic chaîne opératoire in the Ptolemaic Nile Delta
This study presents the results of analyses of ceramics from one of the rare excavated kiln sites that produced amphorae and common wares in...
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Archaeology of craft and artisans in the Ottoman Empire: a case of ceramic production in Belgrade during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
This paper discusses an archaeology of ceramic craft and artisans in the sixteenth–seventeenth centuries Belgrade and problematises its relation to...
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Archaeometric characterization of common and cooking wares from the Late Antique city of Valentia (Valencia, Spain)
This contribution presents the results of the archaeometric characterization of Late Roman pottery from the city of Valencia (Spain). The ceramic...
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Organic Residues Analysis (ORA) in Archaeology
This chapter will provide an overview on the state of the art of the current practice and methodology of the analysis of the organic residues (ORA)...
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Small-Angle Neutron Scattering for Cultural Heritage Studies
This chapter presents a short literature overview of the last two decades on the application of small angle neutron scattering (SANS) method in the...
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Centrality on the periphery: an analysis of rural settlement hierarchy in the Dutch part of the Roman limes
The Lower Rhine region was of crucial importance for the Roman empire as a transit zone from Gaul to the North Sea. The river Rhine functioned both...
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Metrological Aspects of Studying the Particle Size Distribution of Soils according to the Kachinskii Method
Abstract —Particle size distribution (PSD) of a significant number of soil samples of various geneses from the Komi Republic was studied by the...
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Isotopic investigations of Chinese ceramics
This chapter provides insights into Chinese ceramic technologies of both bodies and glazes as well as provenance by using isotopes applied to a...
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The late medieval and early modern ceramics in the city of Córdoba (Andalusia, Spain). Christian productions under the Islamic tradition
The archaeological knowledge of the material culture in the city of Córdoba (Andalusia, Spain) during the late medieval and early modern periods is...
