The pottery of Nineveh 5 is considered one the most beautiful ‎pottery in Mesopotamia, ‎period dating back to beginning ‎the third millennium B.C and contemporary period ‎of Jamdet ‎Nasr. This type was discovered for first time ‎fifth layer city Nineveh, a different ‎ manner from ‎previous periods. north Mesopotamia country ‎rich ‎this kind pottery, which these sites. ‎The Tell Lashkar, ‎is loc...

We describe an ongoing research project on efficient methods for reconstruction of objects from large collections of irregular fragments, such as ancient pottery, collapsed murals, etc.. Our solution for flat objects uses multiscale matching and constrained dynamic programming, and we are now extending it to curved pottery fragments. We seek collaborative projects with museums and other potenti...

This article reports on the successful completion of a large-scale pilot project, where 3D scanning technology, and newly developed software to optimally identify the rotation axis of wheel-produced ceramics, were used as practical tools for pottery analysis. Approximately 1000 potsherds from several sites and periods were scanned, their axis of symmetry computed, and their mean profiles drawn....

• Wadi Fidan 61 revealed some of the earliest pottery in Faynan, southern Jordan. Compositional analysis provides evidence six distinct clay recipes. Pottery was manufactured from raw materials available within 5 km site. diversity may reflect collection across a forager-farmer taskscape. The Faynan region Jordan became center industrial-scale metallurgical production during Bronze and Iron Age...

qajar period is recognized as a time of significant changes in persian arts. perhaps the most obvious change was the influence of european arts especially on architecture, painting as well as pottery. however after safavid period as to several inside and outside factors, amongst them vast importation of porcelain wares, iran was faced with stagnation of pottery’s art but this doesn’t mean the a...

This article presents the results of latest surface and geophysical surveys at Przeworsk culture site 13 in Wrzępia, Lesser Poland Province. According to magnetic prospection, more than 130 anomalies typical for kilns are present here. Based on survey, their interpretation as pottery is most likely. The center specialised mostly production Krausengefässe type storage vessels. confirmed by prese...

The main goal of this article is to analyse post-medieval slipware found during archaeological excavations in Tykocin Castle and describe its distinguishing features: decorative characteristics forms. Further considerations are aimed at reconstructing the functions vessels castle household throughout 16th 18th centuries attempting determine their provenance. analysis preceded by list terminolog...

Cylindrical objects made usually of fired clay but sometimes of stone were found at the Yarmukian Pottery Neolithic sites of Sha'ar HaGolan and Munhata (first half of the 8(th) millennium BP) in the Jordan Valley. Similar objects have been reported from other Near Eastern Pottery Neolithic sites. Most scholars have interpreted them as cultic objects in the shape of phalli, while others have ref...

The scale of late prehistoric sociopolitical complexity on the ColoracWPlateau has been widely debated in the American Southwest. Proponents of an alliance model useJeddito Yellow Ware) manufactured at Hopi Mesa villages) as one offtur index wares. This distributional study ofJeddito Yellow Ware challenges aspects of the alliance model by using a data set that contains over 430 yellow ware site...