This paper presents the results of an archaeometric analysis pre-Roman and Roman ceramics from Vaccean Iron Age hillfort Pintia (Valladolid, Spain). The study assesses degrees romanization hybridization by investigating changes in local ceramic production dissemination new technologies with arrival rule. Thin-section petrography, XRD, geochemical analyses (using XRF) have been utilised on a sel...

Firing is a crucial step in the production of pottery, as it irreversibly transforms clay into ceramic. Clay sintering and subsequent vitrification occur during firing, together with other transformations undergone by specific minerals rock inclusions according to their optical physical properties, including colour. Some these are visible thin-sections might be interpreted technological markers...

Abstract The Neolithic sites of the Cyclops Cave and Agios Petros provide insights into a once flourishing culture that inhabited ‘Deserted Islands’ northern Sporades in Greek north Aegean. Building on scientific analysis ceramics from seasonally Cave, present study examines detail 39 sherds permanently settled site adjacent island Kyra Panagia, using combination thin section petrography, geoch...

Bayat Ceramic Home Industry in Klaten, Central Java, Indonesia is produced from three primary locations of Melikan, Paseban, and Ndolon. The clay-sources the ceramic were mined surrounding areas, which geologically named Jiwo Hills. Characterization identification clay material sources products these areas done to understand correlation between provenance production processes. This paper presen...

The beginning of relationships between autochthonous communities and Phoenicians from the earliest contacts in eighth century BC made possible exchange ideas, technologies people. This work analyses development Early Iron Age potteries Iberian Southeast, impact Phoenician presence agency that these local groups exercised on their ceramic assemblages until fifth BC. incorporation new archaeometr...

The final stage in the life history of prehistoric pottery prior to archaeological recovery is usually longest, and frequently most dynamic. remains ceramics spend hundreds thousands years deposited within upper layers earth’s crust where they encounter same diagenetic environmental processes as surrounding natural materials. Harsh conditions subterranean environments induce physical stresses c...