Pierced Bronze age Ceramic Vessel from Jericho

2020 ◽  
pp. 76-84
Author(s):  
Sara Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Ceramic Vessel

Aquatic Radiocarbon Reservoir Offsets in the Southeastern Baltic

Radiocarbon ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 539-556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gytis Piličiauskas ◽  
Carl Heron
Keyword(s):  
Stable Isotope ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Bone Collagen ◽  
Curonian Lagoon ◽  
Human Bones ◽  
Ceramic Vessel ◽  
Pike Perch ◽  
Ceramic Vessels ◽  
Ams Dates

The aim of this article is to discuss radiocarbon dating offsets due to freshwater and marine reservoir effects (FRE and MRE, respectively) in the southeastern Baltic. Thirty-six 14C dates from Lithuanian coastal and inland Subneolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Age sites as well as two Mesolithic-Neolithic cemeteries are presented here. Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dates, sometimes paired or tripled, have been obtained on samples of various origin, foodcrusts, or visible charred deposits adhering to the surfaces of ceramic vessel walls were also dated and investigated for stable isotope signals. The results argue for a significant freshwater component in the food processed in ceramic vessels during the Subneolithic and Neolithic. Paired dating of ungulate and human bones at the Spiginas and Donkalnis cemeteries (6300–1900 cal BC) does not suggest an FRE, although stable isotope data on human bone collagen strongly suggest a large input of freshwater food in the diet. An FRE in the order of 320–510 yr was estimated for the Šventoji paleolagoon around 3000 cal BC. At the same time, the FRE of the Curonian Lagoon could be larger as implied by large apparent 14C ages of modern pike-perch (981 ± 30 BP) and bream (738 ± 30 BP) bones as well as “foodcrust” offsets (650–530 yr) at Nida (3500–2500 cal BC). An MRE of 190 ± 43 yr was estimated for the southeastern coast of the Littorina Sea according to offsets between dates of seal bones and terrestrial samples at Nida and Šventoji. Any FRE at Lake Kretuonas remains uncertain due to the limited work to date.

The Liminal Passage: A Final Bronze Age hoard found in Dolany-Nové Sady – “Sádek”, District Olomouc (CZ)

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuzana Mírová ◽  
Pavel Fojtík
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Ceramic Vessel

Abstract The article presents a hoard from the Final Bronze Age found in 2005 in the cadastre of Dolany-Nové Sady ‒ “Sádek”, Olomouc District (CZ). It consists of 2 bronze axes, 3 bronze cheek-pieces of a horse’s bit, 2 bronze phalerae, decorated bronze belt sheet, 6 fragments of 3 different plano-convex ingots and a ceramic vessel. The paper deals with the chronological-typological evaluation of the hoard and especially the motivations for its deposition in connection with supra-regional long-distance roads. Authors discuss the model of social organization of the landscape in the Low Jeseník Mountains area and selected adjacent regions.

scholarly journals ON THE HANDLES OF CERAMIC VESSELS OF THE EARLY BRONZE PRIMORSKY DAGESTAN (QUESTIONS OF TYPOLOGY AND CHRONOLOGY)

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-114
Author(s):  
Arsen L. Budaychiev
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Ceramic Ware ◽  
Distribution Area ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
The North ◽  
Ceramic Vessel ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Chalcolithic Period ◽  
Ceramic Vessels ◽  
Type 3

The main purpose of this article is a typological and chronological study of the handles of ceramic vessels originating from fairly well-studied sites of the Early Bronze Age of the Primorsky Lowland of Dagestan, including both settlements (Velikent II, Gemetyube I, II, Kabaz-Kutan I, II, Torpakh-kala), and and burial grounds (Velikent I (catacomb No. 8), II (catacomb No. 1), III (catacomb No. 1), Karabudakhkent II, Kayakent VI). The first handles in the North-Eastern Caucasus appeared on ceramic ware back in the Eneolithic era. During the early Bronze Age, handles became a characteristic part of ceramic dishes (bowls, containers, cups, vases) on the considered sites of Primorsky Dagestan. Functionally, they have a utilitarian, decorative, artistic and religious purpose. The handles are of four types, which are characteristic of certain forms of dishes: type 1 - horizontal tubular, type 2 - ribbon, type 3 - pseudo-handles, type 4 - hemispherical. The article provides a description of each type of pens, provides analogues on the sites of the Early Bronze Age both in the Northeast Caucasus and the adjacent regions of the Caucasus, including the territories of modern Iran, Turkey and Palestine and Israel, which were part of the distribution area of ​​the Kuro-Arak cultural and historical community ( including Khirbet-Kerak culture). The work identifies the most common and early, dating back to the Chalcolithic period, types of pens, discusses the issue of their chronology. This article is the first special work devoted to a typological and chronological analysis of ceramic vessel handles.

CHICKEN OR EGG? RETHINKING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SILVER AND TINNED CERAMIC VESSEL ASSEMBLAGES

2018 ◽  
Vol 113 ◽  
pp. 75-118
Author(s):  
S. Aulsebrook
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Special Relationship ◽  
Strong Connection ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Metal Vessel ◽  
Ceramic Vessel ◽  
Ceramic Vessels ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Relationship

Since the 1960s, when the existence of tinned ceramic vessels in the Late Bronze Age Aegean was first recognised, our knowledge of this phenomenon and the catalogue of known examples have expanded significantly. Even before the nature of these objects was fully understood, scholars had suggested that their primary purpose was to imitate metal, particularly silver, vessels. Several silver vessel assemblages, including one from the tholos at Kokla, have been singled out for their perceived special relationship with tinned ceramics. However, closer analysis of tinned vessels has suggested that they were less similar to silver vessels than previously thought, especially in terms of their range of forms, details of shape and even colour. Recent scholarship has also emphasised that the concept of imitation is very complex and its investigation requires a more nuanced approach. Yet references to tinned vessels as straightforward imitations of, or even substitutes for, silver vessels remain common. In 2014, an opportunity arose to examine the Kokla silver vessels in greater detail. A strong connection between the Kokla group and tinned vessels is evident, although this does not mean that the latter depended upon assemblages such as the former for inspiration. The unique features of the Kokla group suggest it may have been a local innovation to emulate the usage of tinned vessels while simultaneously stressing the higher social status of its users. This paper concludes that situating tinned vessels within the ceramic tradition and thus regarding them as an enhanced form of ceramic, rather than an inferior form of metal vessel, better explains the nature of this phenomenon.

Date antropologice referitoare la unele dintre descoperirile funerare ale Epocii Bronzului de la Păuleni-Ciuc (jud. Harghita) / Anthropological data about several Bronze Age funerary discoveries at Păuleni-Ciuc (Harghita County)

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Adult Female ◽  
Small Object ◽  
Long Bones ◽  
New Born ◽  
Animal Bones ◽  
Ceramic Vessel ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Bronze Age ◽  
Grinding Stone

The study details the anthropological analyses of 14 archaeological cases in which entire or partial human skeletons were found in the Bronze Age site of Păuleni-Ciuc, Ciomortan (Harghita county) during the excavation campaigns 2000-2002, 2007, 2009 and 2011. Two collective deposits, a ritual pit, two dwellings and other findings delivered a total of 22 individuals, among which 8 were aged seven or less. Feature 14, an oval pit researched in 2002, contained a grinding stone, an entire ceramic vessel, animal bones and the remains of 5 individuals: the skull of 15 years old female with traces of peri-mortem blow inflicted with a small object in the mandible, the skull and ribs of a seven years old child, parts of the hands and ribs of two infans I, the entire skeleton, deposited flexed on its right side, on the bottom of the pit (a woman, 17-21 years old, 160 cm height). The woman’s skeleton had traces of burning on the ribs, right tibia and cubitus, suggesting that the dead was laid on the remains of a recently consumed fire. Traces of cuts and blows were identified on the long bones. Feature 14a, a flexed skeleton of an adult (22-24 years old) male (159 cm height, robust) was found in the vicinity of the previously described situation. They could be connected. The mandible showed signs of an abnormal disposition of the teeth with rotated canines. Feature 13 was associated with the fortification, maybe with a decommissioned gate. It comprised the entire skeleton of an adult man (24-30 years old) and the remains of 4 other individuals: an adult female (represented by unburnt fragments of the skull), one infans I (cremated, with traces of clay on the skull), a new-born and a 4 years old. The robust man was partially cremated, laid flexed, on its left side, mixed with animal bones. Traces of ochre were found on its right femur. He had suffered from osteoarthritis. Pit 36, dug in the fortification, contained 7 Wittenberg vessels and the entire skeleton of a 4 years old child. Remains of two infans II were discovered in two dwellings (8 and 8A) excavated in 2000.

Strategies for future success: Remembering the Hittites during the Iron Age

2007 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 203-216
Author(s):  
Lynn Swartz Dodd
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
East Side ◽  
Site Location ◽  
Local Elites ◽  
Future Success ◽  
Ceramic Vessel ◽  
Distinct Site

AbstractThe Maraş and Sakçagözü valley surveys on the east side of the Amanus mountains provide new data regarding patterns of Hittite territorial management and administration. Sites dating to the Late Bronze Age II period were identified by the presence of burnished pottery, drab ware and, occasionally, by animal-shaped ceramic vessel fragments. The standardised drab ware pottery is emblematic of mass production and rigid control of labour sources and raw materials through systems designed to support the economic and political strategies of the Hittite court and to serve its interests. The settlement pattern is linked to Hittite regional needs for agricultural production, raw materials and territorial security. The distinct site location pattern indicates a strategic, restrained use of space by the Hittites. This left room for beneficial integrative features that local élites might emphasise for their own purposes, which comprise a foundation for the prestige later accorded to the Hittite legacy.

scholarly journals Petrov culture burial site near the village of Taldy (Karkaralinsk District, Karaganda Region)

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-155
Author(s):  
Igor Alekseevich Kukushkin ◽  
Evgeniy Anatolievich Dmitriev ◽  
Alexei Igorevich Kukushkin
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
The Urals ◽  
Burial Site ◽  
The Core ◽  
Local Variant ◽  
Ceramic Vessel ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Bronze Age ◽  
Karaganda Region

The following paper contains investigation results of the randomly discovered ancient burial site near the village of Taldy (Central Kazakhstan). Accompanying inventory is represented by metal celt-adze, a highly fragmented bracelet with a spiral wound end and a ceramic vessel with a ribbed shoulder and geometric ornament. The obtained material allows attributing the burial site to the Petrov culture of the Bronze Age. The authors of the paper proceed from the weak argumentation of the regional analogue of Petrovka, the Nurtai culture singled out at the end of the 20th century. The current base of sources is characterized by heterogeneity. In this connection, the early Andronian antiquities of Central Kazakhstan should be considered within the framework of the Petrov culture with the possible further allocation of a local variant or stage. Celt-adze found here is quite interesting. It has analogies with the Dolgaya Gora monuments findings (Abashevskaya culture), Tanabergen II (Sintashta culture), Nurataldy-1, Kenotkel XVIII (Petrov culture) and Shaitan Lake II (Koptyakovskaya culture). According to the formal and typological features, the specimens found are divided into two subtypes: the early one - Abashev-Sintashta and the later one - Petrovsky-Koptyakovsky. The Dolgaya Gora finding presupposes the birth of this type of tools in the late Abashev culture of the Urals. The well-known ethnographic parallels allow us to establish that the products were intended for straining poles, sanding the tree, removing the core from blanks and other works related to woodworking.

scholarly journals A CERAMIC VESSEL OF A RARE SHAPE FROM THE LATE BRONZE AGE IN THE MIDDLE DON REGION

2020 ◽  
pp. 151-165
Author(s):  
В. Ю. Луньков ◽  
Ю. В. Лунькова ◽  
А. А. Шевченко
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Flat Bottom ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Neolithic Age ◽  
Ceramic Vessel ◽  
Vertical Walls ◽  
Funerary Rites ◽  
Changes Over Time

В статье рассматривается сосуд редкой формы эпохи поздней бронзы из погребения 5 кургана 44 могильника Колбино I и предпринимается попытка определения его места среди аналогичных находок столовой посуды. Отличительные черты сосуда: квадратная в плане форма, плоское дно, вертикальные стенки, орнамент по верхнему срезу, налепные выступы-ручки. С целью выяснения возникновения и динамики развития подобной формы сосудов привлечены более ранние (начиная с неолита), синхронные и поздние свидетельства керамического производства. Рассмотренные данные свидетельствуют об особой роли, которую играли данные сосуды в обрядовой практике при совершении погребений. Наиболее близкие аналогии как отдельным элементам, так и их сочетанию прослеживаются с находками блюд-подносов из могильников федоровской культуры позднего бронзового века, что является еще одним свидетельством тесных контактов носителей срубной и федоровской традиций. The paper explores a vessel of a rare shape from the Late Bronze Age coming from grave 5, kurgan 44, of the Kolbino I burial ground. The authors make attempts to determine its place among similar finds of tableware. Distinctive features of the vessel include a shape square in the plan, a flat bottom, vertical walls, ornament along the upper edge and molded projecting handles. To clarify the origin and changes over time in development of vessels of the discussed shape, earlier (starting from the Neolithic Age), contemporary and later evidence of ceramic production was used. The examined evidence is indicative of a special role played by these vessels in the funerary rites during arranging burials. The closest analogies regarding both specific elements and their combinations can be traced among platter trays originating from the Fedorovka cemeteries of the Late Bronze Age which is another evidence of close contacts between the Timber-Grave and the Fedorovka traditions.

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