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Analysing Pottery: Processing, Classification, Publication
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... Analysing Pottery: Processing, Classification, Publication. Barbara Horejs, Reinhard Jung, and Peter Pavúk, eds. Reviewed by Susan I. Rotroff. Free PDF. Studia Archaeologia et Medievalia 10. Pp. 324, figs. 127, graphs 2, tables 11, diagrams 16. ...
An edited volume offering fresh insight into modern approaches to processing large amounts of ceramic finds from settlement excavations, going ‘back to basics’ so to speak. The volume focuses on archaeological practice and more specifically on factors that determine the methodological choices made by researchers under specific working conditions. In other words: which methodological approach is appropriate to which kind of ceramic assemblage and for which type of stratigraphic context, especially if the analysis is supposed to be completed in a reasonable period of time. Review by S. Rotroff in American Journal of Archaeology: http://www.ajaonline.org/sites/default/files/1161\_Rotroff.pdf
Gregor, M., and K. Rebay-Salisbury. 2012. "Preliminary results from the analysis of Kalenderberg pottery from the Braunsberg (Austria): an archaeometric characterisation," in A. Kern, J.K. Koch, I. Balzer, J. Fries-Knoblach, K. Kowarik, C. Later, P.C. Ramsl, P. Trebsche, and J. Wiethold (eds) Technologieentwicklung und -transfer in der Eisenzeit. Bericht der Internationalen Tagung der AG Eisenzeit und des Naturhistorischen Museums, Prähistorische Abteilung - Hallstatt 2009, Beiträge zur Ur- und Frühgeschichte Mitteleuropas 65. 109-112. Langenweissbach: Beier und Beran
This article presents results of the analysis of 23 thin sections of early medieval pottery from Pliska (obl. Schumen / BG). This investigation was planned as part of a comprehensive study of the so-called yellow pottery from Pliska, which aimed to characterize these vessels and their production technology as well as to illuminate the connection of this pottery group with the Avar-period yellow pottery in the Carpathian Basin (present-day Hungary and surrounding areas). The yellow pottery from Pliska became well-known primarily through the vessel-set found in a secret passage of »Krum’s Palace« in 1979. Various hypotheses have been suggested for the conceptual origin and place of production of this pottery group, including a Byzantine and a central Asian background. Chemical analyses of the yellow pottery from Pliska and of local sediments have shown that a local production of this pottery in Pliska was possible. The aim of the investigations presented here is to characterize the microstructure of the yellow pottery and other investigated pottery groups from Pliska, in order to determine possible similarities / differences between these groups, as well as to show / disprove potential connections with yellow pottery groups of the 8th and 9th centuries from the Carpathian Basin and neighbouring areas.