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The (in)visibility of lost wax casting moulds in the archaeological record: observations from an archaeological experiment
Apart from mould and core remnants attached to metal objects from the Chalcolithic Southern Levant (ca. 4500–3800 BCE), production remains of early...
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A “chaîne opératoire” perspective on Iron Age II Judean cooking pots
The study presented here deals with the manufacturing technologies of cooking pots in Iron Age II Judah (ca. 1000–586 BCE). Two aspects were studied...
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Exploring handmade pottery traditions and Early Iron Age Iberian networks through the site of La Fonteta (Alicante, Spain)
The Phoenician colony of La Fonteta in southeastern Iberia holds significant importance for understanding Phoenician settlement patterns in the...
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Comparison of log-ratio and log10 chemical elemental data analysis of Central Amazonian pottery and archaeological implications
The additive log-ratio (alr) transformation is recommended as one of the most robust data transformations for multivariate analysis of archaeometric...
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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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Asbestos Ceramics from Archaeological Sites of Southern Fennoscandia (Karelia): Mineralogical and Geochemical Aspects
Pottery with asbestos fiber appeared in Eastern Finland about 4700 BC and widely spread to the North of Fennoscandia and North-Western Russia in the...
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Invention or diffusion: on the appearance of limestone temper in the late Holocene archeological record of southern Ohio, USA
One of the most fundamental questions archeologists face is whether some form or expression of material culture appears at a specific geo-temporal...
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Cutting down on the grog: the crystallisation of Neolithic ceramic traditions at Cova d’En Pardo (Alicante, Spain) and cultural change in the western Mediterranean basin (mid-6th and 5th millennia cal. BC)
This paper presents the characterisation of 48 ceramic samples from Cova d’En Pardo (Alicante, Spain). Provenance and technology analysis are carried...
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Ceramic production and the transition to agriculture in Northeast China: Neolithic pottery technology in the Fuxin Region
The production of pottery in East Asia can be traced back to approximately 20,000 years ago. Hunter-gatherer communities utilised pottery for many...
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Dynamics of Transboundary River Conflicts vis-à-vis Nature Based Negotiated Approach (NBNA) Solution: Case Study River Teesta
As the population across the globe is rising, and in tandem the per capita consumption rate, the pressure on limiting environmental resources is also...
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Archeometric Study of Medieval Ceramic Finds from the Porta Reno Excavation in Ferrara (Italy)
The ceramics from the excavation of Porta Reno (Ferrara, Italy) consist of fire pots and amphorae for domestic use. To better characterize these...
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Ceramic technology: how to recognize clay processing
The issue of clay processing concerns both provenance and techno-functional ceramic investigations. In the former, the compositional/textural...
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Kerpiç production and environmental dynamics in an early sedentary community: micromorphological evidence from Aşıklı Höyük, Central Anatolia (Turkey)
This article illustrates how changes in the sediment source, tempering strategies, and sha** process in early Neolithic earthen architecture in...
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Technological dynamics of Early Iron Age ceramics from the Heuneburg (SW Germany): A synthesis of 50 years of research
This paper addresses technological dynamics revealed through raw material analyses of Late Hallstatt (seventh–fifth centuries BCE) ceramics from the...
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A technological study of Assyrian clay tablets from Nineveh, Tell Halaf and Nimrud: a pilot case study
Ancient Middle Eastern clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform writing have traditionally been studied more as textual documents than as archaeological...
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Pottery technology and provenance in southern Tawantinsuyu. A petrographic approach to Provincial Inca style
In Central Western Argentina (CWA), the Provincial Inca pottery has been the most ubiquitous indicator of Inca influence and expansionism during the...
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Who venerated the ancestors at the Petit-Chasseur site? Examining Early Bronze Age cultic activities around megalithic monuments through the archaeometric analyses of ceramic findings (Upper Rhône Valley, Switzerland, 2200–1600 BC)
Through the analyses of recovered pottery, this study explores the social dimension of an ancestor cult developed at the Petit-Chasseur megalithic...
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Quantitative 3D orientation analysis of particles and voids to differentiate hand-built pottery forming techniques using X-ray microtomography and neutron tomography
This article describes the quantitative analysis of the 3D orientation of objects (i.e. particles and voids) within pottery fabrics to differentiate...
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Agios Petros and the Neolithic pottery-making traditions of the deserted islands, Northern Sporades, Greece
The Neolithic sites of the Cyclops Cave and Agios Petros provide insights into a once flourishing culture that inhabited the ‘Deserted Islands’ of...
