The earliest foundry site of Pre-Roman Padua, in the Veneto region (north-eastern Italy), provided evidence craft activities and residential areas dated between end 9th 1st centuries BCE. Common fine wares were found, most them belonging to two main ceramic classes: (i) highly dark-colored bodies with silicate inclusions; (ii) carbonate-tempered pots. Macroscopic petrographic (POM) descriptions...

Two markers of regional exchange in the Eastern Mediterranean during the first millennium BCE are the White Painted and Bichrome Wares from Cyprus's Cypro-Geometric and Cypro-Archaic periods. Although these ceramics are often assumed to be imports from Cyprus, excavations in southern Turkey at sites such as Tarsus-Gözlükule, Kilise Tepe, Sirkeli Höyük, and Kinet Höyük suggest that at least some...

celadon as one of the oldest potteries originated at china during the shang period (3500 b.c (in zhejiang province. from the han dynasty (206-221 a.d), true celadon ware started to appear and these advances would be followed by various kilns in northern and southern china until 17th century. the main aims of this study include: determining the date of first arrival of celadon pottery to iran an...