Addressing ceramic pyrotechnology plays a key role in understanding wide range of cultural and social behaviours associated to pottery production. Firing is the process which transforms clay into ceramic, one most frequently preserved materials majority Neolithic later archaeological sites. Though firing temperatures functions various pyrotechnological installations have been extensively invest...

This study draws on archaeological, stylistic, and technological evidence to explore ceramic brick production of the medieval Islamic period in southern Karakum region Turkmenistan, home many urban sites along so-called Silk Roads. We focus a 9th–12th centuries a.d. assemblage recovered from site Dandanakan/Daş Rabat during first season ToKa (Town project) 2019. Special emphasis is paid charact...

Introduction: We have recently characterized the mineralogy and petrography of ~ 100 CAIs from ~20 R chondrites [1]. Here we report O-isotope compositions of ten R CAIs and Mg-isotope composition of three hibonite-bearing CAIs: H030

This paper presents the characterisation of 48 ceramic samples from Cova d’En Pardo (Alicante, Spain). Provenance and technology analysis are carried out on materials dated back to different Early Middle Neolithic cultural phases, including pioneer Epicardial levels, poorly known in area. The techniques employed optical petrography scanning electron microscope. Two main fabrics were identified,...

Sixth millennium BC Dalma ceramics from the northwestern and central Zagros have previously been described as beingimpossible to distinguish using decorative style analysis in spite of the great distance between the two regions. In thisstudy, petrographic (thin section) analysis and a small-scale electron microprobe project was carried out on the ceramicsof the two regions, as well as a small s...

This paper discusses an archaeology of ceramic craft and artisans in the sixteenth–seventeenth centuries Belgrade problematises its relation to historical models urban production Ottoman Empire. The study focuses on five common wares, representative Middle Danube region, found well-defined consumption contexts Belgrade’s intra extra muros settlements. technology these including bodies, slips, g...

A recent petrographic study of ceramic jars from Giza imported into Egypt during the 4th Dynasty Pyramid Age (c. 2613–2494 BCE) identified original production zone as Lebanese coast generally between Beirut and Tripoli, including region Byblos. The their contents were to by maritime trade expeditions conducted at behest Egyptian state. This analyses a selection these samples using ICP-AES -MS f...