Petrographic thin sections of pottery from five Formative Mexican archaeological sites show that exchanges of vessels between highland and lowland chiefly centers were reciprocal, or two-way. These analyses contradict recent claims that the Gulf Coast was the sole source of pottery carved with iconographic motifs. Those claims were based on neutron activation, which, by relying on chemical elem...

Colombia is a remarkable coal producer and exporter worldwide; several sectors use this resource for electricity and thermal energy production. Among them, the ceramic industry consumed 118,590 tons in 2011. Most of the pottery production companies in this country are located effects to the population nearby. Despite of the importance of these industries to the small rural economies, the govern...

in this essay, jelinki pottery (clinky- ware ceramics) has been studied as one types of ceramics at arsacides era. raw materials, quality of processing and baking conditions of potteries are some of effective factors in strength and stability of this material. employing purposeful methods of chemical analyses in order to examine such factors and in fact structural science of historical potterie...

The application of X-radiography in ceramic studies is becoming an increasingly valued method. Using the potential of industrial X-ray computed tomography (CT) for non-destructive testing as an archaeometric or archaeological method in pottery studies, especially regarding aspects such as manufacturing techniques or pottery fabrics, requires controlled data-acquisition and post-processing by sc...

Aiming to assist the archaeologist to restore excavated sherds, a virtual restoration system for pottery shape relics is developed based on their two characteristic features: symmetry axis and profile. An effective method of estimating the axis of the surface of revolution is presented first; then an approach for computing the complete profile is proposed. Because some pottery contains holes or...

Monagrillo (3520–1300 cal BC) is Panama’s oldest pottery. Archaeologists assumed it was a low-fired expedient ware made with any available clay. We studied 1) clay sources (thin sections; DTA; shrinkage, porosity, and plasticity tests), 2) manufacturing techniques (xeroradiography; thin sections; visual inspection), and 3) firing temperature (SEM-EDS; porosity tests). We identified two clay typ...

Considering the Neolithic Period when art began, pottery and symbolically terracotta in particular, Anatolia, with its geography extending from Front Asia to Europe, location which lived these periods earlier than their contemporaries, is an important area of pottery. Pottery, has been able continue many parts Anatolia without disturbing archaeological features terms production style, also inta...

The genus Capsicum is New World in origin and represents a complex of a wide variety of both wild and domesticated taxa. Peppers or fruits of Capsicum species rarely have been identified in the paleoethnobotanical record in either Meso- or South America. We report here confirmation of Capsicum sp. residues from pottery samples excavated at Chiapa de Corzo in southern Mexico dated from Middle to...

Based on her study of distribution patterns, Vronwy Hankey suggested that Cyprus or Cypriots played some role in the trade of Mycenaean pottery eastwards to the Levant. She also noted that some of the Mycenaean pottery which reached both Cyprus and the Near East can-ied marks incised on handles or painted on bases. This paper examines the possible relationships between the marks, Mycenaean pott...