Production and Distribution of Pottery in the Eastern Mediterranean: Applications of Ceramic Petrography
The potential of applying petrographic analysis to ceramics was first fully realised by Anna Shepard in her seminal studies on prehistoric pottery from Mesoamerica and the Southwest United States in the 1930s (Shepard 1956). She demonstrated how effectively petrography could be used to answer archae...
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| description | The potential of applying petrographic analysis to ceramics was first fully realised by Anna Shepard in her seminal studies on prehistoric pottery from Mesoamerica and the Southwest United States in the 1930s (Shepard 1956). She demonstrated how effectively petrography could be used to answer archaeological questions concerning provenance and technology. Ceramic petrography applied to Old World pottery really took off with the work of David Peacock in England during the 1960s (Peacock 1970). From these beginnings the technique of ceramic petrography developed, and its use in the study of archaeological ceramics grew, nowhere quite so rapidly as in the Eastern Mediterranean region.
The theme for this section of Internet Archaeology was suggested to me by Alan Vince after a particularly popular joint meeting of the Ceramic Petrology Group and Near Eastern Ceramic Research Association at the British Museum in November 1998, on the theme of cooking pots. A number of the papers presented at that meeting, together with papers from other workers in the field of ceramic petrography, have formed the basis for this section on the application of ceramic petrography to pottery from the Eastern Mediterranean. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fb25383b6e474f86b12b232974bff1142024-02-02T20:18:41ZengUniversity of YorkInternet Archaeology1363-53872000-12-019http://dx.doi.org/10.11141/ia.9.3 Production and Distribution of Pottery in the Eastern Mediterranean: Applications of Ceramic PetrographyLouise JoynerThe potential of applying petrographic analysis to ceramics was first fully realised by Anna Shepard in her seminal studies on prehistoric pottery from Mesoamerica and the Southwest United States in the 1930s (Shepard 1956). She demonstrated how effectively petrography could be used to answer archaeological questions concerning provenance and technology. Ceramic petrography applied to Old World pottery really took off with the work of David Peacock in England during the 1960s (Peacock 1970). From these beginnings the technique of ceramic petrography developed, and its use in the study of archaeological ceramics grew, nowhere quite so rapidly as in the Eastern Mediterranean region. The theme for this section of Internet Archaeology was suggested to me by Alan Vince after a particularly popular joint meeting of the Ceramic Petrology Group and Near Eastern Ceramic Research Association at the British Museum in November 1998, on the theme of cooking pots. A number of the papers presented at that meeting, together with papers from other workers in the field of ceramic petrography, have formed the basis for this section on the application of ceramic petrography to pottery from the Eastern Mediterranean.http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue9/edit8.htmlPotteryMediterraneanProduction |
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| title | Production and Distribution of Pottery in the Eastern Mediterranean: Applications of Ceramic Petrography |
| title_full | Production and Distribution of Pottery in the Eastern Mediterranean: Applications of Ceramic Petrography |
| title_fullStr | Production and Distribution of Pottery in the Eastern Mediterranean: Applications of Ceramic Petrography |
| title_full_unstemmed | Production and Distribution of Pottery in the Eastern Mediterranean: Applications of Ceramic Petrography |
| title_short | Production and Distribution of Pottery in the Eastern Mediterranean: Applications of Ceramic Petrography |
| title_sort | production and distribution of pottery in the eastern mediterranean applications of ceramic petrography |
| topic | Pottery Mediterranean Production |
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