THE CERAMIC MATERIAL FROM THE MIDDLE BRONZE AGE COMMUNAL GRAVE AT TELL TWEINI FIELD A

2019 ◽  
pp. 255-312
Author(s):  
Klaas Vansteenhuyse
Keyword(s):  
Ceramic Material ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Middle Bronze Age

scholarly journals Identifying Wheel-Thrown Vases in Middle Minoan Crete? Preliminary Analysis of Experimental Replicas of Plain Handleless Conical Cups from Protopalatial Phaistos

2021 ◽  
Vol XII (2) ◽  
pp. 201-216
Author(s):  
Ilaria Caloi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ceramic Material ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Experimental Work ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
Minoan Crete ◽  
Technological Study ◽  
Wheel Throwing

Recent work in Middle Bronze Age Crete has revealed that most Protopalatial or First Palace period pottery is produced through the use of a combination of coil-building and the wheel, i.e., wheelcoiling. Experimental work conducted on pottery from Minoan sites of Northern and Eastern Crete (e.g., Knossos, Myrtos Pyrgos, Palaikastro) has indeed determined that Minoan potters did not develop the skills required to adopt the wheel-throwing technique. However, my recent technological study of Protopalatial ceramic material from Middle Minoan IIA (19th century BC) deposits from the First Palace at Phaistos, in Southern Crete, has revealed that though pottery was produced by the wheelcoiling techniques, yet other forming techniques were practised too. In this paper I present a preliminary analysis of experimental replicas of MM IIA Phaistian plain handleless conical cups, manufactured on the potter’s wheel using three different forming techniques: wheel-pinching, wheel-coiling, and throwing-off-the-hump. This analysis will proffer answers to several questions on the use of the potter’s wheel in Middle Bronze Age Crete and opens the possibility that at MM IIA Phaistos there co-existed potters who had developed skills to employ different forming techniques on the wheel, including possibly that of throwing-off-the-hump.

A rapid cooling event over the western Pacific region during the Middle Bronze Age

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hangfang Xiao ◽  
Wenfeng Deng ◽  
Xi Liu ◽  
Xuefei Chen ◽  
Yangrui Guo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Western Pacific Region ◽  
Rapid Cooling ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
The Western Pacific

Initial Results of the Stratigraphy and Chronology of the Tel Kabri Middle Bronze Age Palace

10.1553/s355 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 355-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Yasur-Landau ◽  
E.H. Cline ◽  
N. Goshen
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
Initial Results
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