In this paper we propose an image-based pottery shape and school identification and classification system for an unknown pottery or fragment. This system is designed to assist archaeologists and students to identify and record objects quickly and accurately. We present several image retrieval and computer vision techniques and describe their applications within the domain of archaeological stud...

This thesis is an examination of the evidence for Dark-age and Viking-age pottery in the Hebrides. A brief discussion of current knowledge of Hebridean ceramics shows how unusually ceramic-rich this area is in comparison with the rest of Scotland and much of the British Isles. But the Dark Age and Viking Age in the Hebrides and the pottery of those periods are very poorly known. The excavation ...

'. t. •'...,/, ,.,.•::•! :• ,;.'•,;!•••..'',//( l/iis paper we propose an image-based pottery fragment identifier and classifier. We have successfiilly developed an automated, search engine system for pottery and potteiy fragment images. This system is designed to assist archaeologists and students in identifying pottery shape, color convention, and other relevant information quickly and accura...

The invention of pottery introduced fundamental shifts in human subsistence practices and sociosymbolic behaviors. Here, we describe the dating of the early pottery from Xianrendong Cave, Jiangxi Province, China, and the micromorphology of the stratigraphic contexts of the pottery sherds and radiocarbon samples. The radiocarbon ages of the archaeological contexts of the earliest sherds are 20,0...

PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS ON SOURCING CLAY SEDIMENTS USED IN POTTERY PRODUCTION AT KUKULIK, SAINT LAWRENCE ISLAND, ALASKA JOZWIK, Diana, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Univ of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99701, [email protected] The archaeological site of Kukulik on Saint Lawrence Island was excavated by Otto Geist from 1931-1935 (Geist 1936) and includes pottery, wood, bone and ivory artifact...

Abstract This work investigates the technology of pottery production at Chalcolithic site Radovanu-La Muscalu (first half fifth millennium BCE), in southern Romania. The excavation this settlement yielded a rich and well-contextualised archaeological assemblage that represents last phases development Boian material culture, phenomenon spread throughout lower Danube area end sixth BCE first BCE....