Una aportación al conocimiento de las producciones cerámicas de época visigoda: el conjunto cerámico de la parcela R3 de la Vega Baja (Toledo) = A contribution to the knowledge of the ceramic productions dated of Visigoth period: the ceramic assemblage...

The Shahrizor Prehistory Project has targeted prehistoric levels of the Late Ubaid and Late Chalcolithic 4 (LC4; Late Middle Uruk) periods at Gurga Chiya (Shahrizor, Kurdistan region of northern Iraq), along with the Halaf period at the adjacent site of Tepe Marani. Excavations at the latter have produced new dietary and environmental data for the sixth millennium B.C. in the region, while at Gurga Chiya part of a burned Late Ubaid tripartite house was excavated. This has yielded a promising archaeobotanical assemblage and established a benchmark ceramic assemblage for the Shahrizor Plain, which is closely comparable to material known from Tell Madhhur in the Hamrin valley. The related series of radiocarbon dates gives significant new insights into the divergent timing of the Late Ubaid and early LC in northern and southern Mesopotamia. In the following occupation horizon, a ceramic assemblage closely aligned to the southern Middle Uruk indicates convergence of material culture with central and southern Iraq as early as the LC4 period. Combined with data for the appearance of Early Uruk elements at sites in the adjacent Qara Dagh region, this hints at long-term co-development of material culture during the fourth millennium B.C. in southeastern Iraqi Kurdistan and central and southern Iraq, potentially questioning the model of expansion or colonialism from the south.

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Mineralogical and Microstructure Analysis for Characterization and Provenance of Ceramic Artifacts from Late Helladic Kastrouli Settlement, Delphi (Central Greece)

Geosciences ◽

10.3390/geosciences11010036 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 36

Author(s):

Vayia Xanthopoulou ◽

Ioannis Iliopoulos ◽

Ioannis Liritzis

Keyword(s):

Raw Materials ◽

Analytical Techniques ◽

Sem Analysis ◽

Petrographic Analysis ◽

Ceramic Assemblage ◽

Thin Sections ◽

Central Greece ◽

High Calcium ◽

Local Geology

The present study deals with the characterization of a ceramic assemblage from the Late Mycenaean (Late Helladic III) settlement of Kastrouli, at Desfina near Delphi, Central Greece using various analytical techniques. Kastrouli is located in a strategic position supervising the Mesokampos plateau and the entire peninsula and is related to other nearby coeval settlements. In total 40 ceramic sherds and 8 clay raw materials were analyzed through mineralogical, petrographic and microstructural techniques. Experimental briquettes (DS) made from clayey raw materials collected in the vicinity of Kastrouli, were fired under temperatures (900 and 1050 °C) in oxidizing conditions for comparison with the ancient ceramics. The petrographic analysis performed on thin sections prepared from the sherds has permitted the identification of six main fabric groups and a couple of loners. The aplastic inclusions recognized in all fabric groups but one confirmed the local provenance since they are related to the local geology. Fresh fractures of representative sherds were further examined under a scanning electron microscope (SEM/EDS) helping us to classify them into calcareous (CaO > 6%) and non-calcareous (CaO < 6%) samples (low and high calcium was noted in earlier pXRF data). Here, the ceramic sherds with broad calcium separation are explored on a one-to-one comparison on the basis of detailed mineralogical microstructure. Moreover, their microstructure was studied, aiming to estimate their vitrification stage. The mineralogy of all studied samples was determined by means of X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD), permitting us to test the validity of the firing temperatures revealed by the SEM analysis. The results obtained through the various analytical techniques employed are jointly assessed in order to reveal potters’ technological choices.

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The emergence of pottery in Africa during the tenth millennium cal BC: new evidence from Ounjougou (Mali)

Antiquity ◽

10.1017/s0003598x00099245 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 83 (322) ◽

pp. 905-917 ◽

Cited By ~ 53

Author(s):

E. Huysecom ◽

M. Rasse ◽

L. Lespez ◽

K. Neumann ◽

A. Fahmy ◽

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Keyword(s):

East Asia ◽

Ceramic Assemblage ◽

Subsistence Strategy ◽

New Evidence

New excavations in ravines at Ounjougou in Mali have brought to light a lithic and ceramic assemblage that dates from before 9400 cal BC. The authors show that this first use of pottery coincides with a warm wet period in the Sahara. As in East Asia, where very early ceramics are also known, the pottery and small bifacial arrowheads were the components of a new subsistence strategy exploiting an ecology associated with abundant wild grasses. In Africa, however, the seeds were probably boiled (then as now) rather than made into bread.

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The Early Second Millennium Ceramic Assemblage of Dinkha Tepe

Iran ◽

10.2307/4300507 ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

pp. 125 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Carol Hamlin

Keyword(s):

Ceramic Assemblage

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A Late Antique Ceramic Assemblage at Burgaz, Datça Peninsula, South-west Turkey, and the ‘Normality of the Mixed Cargo’ in the Ancient Mediterranean

The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology ◽

10.1111/1095-9270.12110 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 44 (2) ◽

pp. 300-311 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Justin Leidwanger ◽

Elizabeth S. Greene ◽

Numan Tuna

Keyword(s):

Late Antique ◽

Ceramic Assemblage ◽

South West

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El trabajo a domicilio en la Vega Baja del Segura (Alicante): origen y desarrollo en un municipio agrícola

Investigaciones Geográficas ◽

10.14198/ingeo1996.16.05 ◽

1996 ◽

pp. 137

Author(s):

Ana Melis Maynar ◽

Gregorio Canales Martínez

Keyword(s):

Vega Baja

El trabajo industrial a domicilio ha cobrado una importancia considerable a raíz de la crisis industrial de la década de los setenta y del proceso de descentralización productiva derivada de la misma. Esta nueva forma de actividad que afectó en un primer momento a las periferias urbanas, se ha expandido en el medio rural. El artículo analiza el grado de implantación entre las familias de un municipio de la Vega Baja del Segura en la provincia de Alicante. La localidad, que surgió dependiendo de los núcleos industriales tradicionales del corredor del Vinalopó, se ha convertido en la actualidad en un centro difusor de este tipo de trabajo.

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