| Sažetak: | <p>This dissertation concerns the study of stoneware vessels, an often-overlooked corpus of material in Southeast Asian archaeology due to the relative ease with which peculiarities in earthenware clay can be studied and the intricate decorations and glazes of porcelains are more easily catalogued and correlated.</p>
<p>These so-called “functional” and “trade” wares are used as proxies to investigate trends of ceramic production, trade and exchange in Southeast Asia during the 12th-15th centuries, a period marked by the fragmentation of centralised political control and the emergence of “atomistic” trading-posts and city-states such as Kota Cina and Singapore, which are taken as the temporal ends of this period in this study.</p>
<p>It may be hoped that through the high-resolution scanning electron microscope study of these materials, that in addition to insights on these aforementioned trends, so as to demonstrate the further potential of this overlooked material in future studies of Southeast Asian history.</p>
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