in prehistoric studies of iran, the abharrood river basin, located on the east of zanjan province and in the northwestborder of the central plateau, is one of the little-known and dark regions. studying this region according to itsenvironmental features and geographical location is important for understanding regional relations and interregionalinteractions between three cultural-geographical a...

Ceramics marked with the Phillips name are frequently found in estate auctions, antiques shops, and historical societies in New England. While transfer printed wares predominate, the firm produced a range of earthenwares, including flow blue, creamware, edged ware, painted pearlware, plain white ironstone, and luster. Printed pieces were often marked with a transfer containing the name of the p...

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 ...

In prehistoric studies of Iran, the Abharrood River Basin, located on the east of Zanjan province and in the northwestborder of the Central Plateau, is one of the little-known and dark regions. Studying this region according to itsenvironmental features and geographical location is important for understanding regional relations and interregionalinteractions between three cultural-geographical a...

'. 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...

Abstract Western Iberia Early Neolithic has been described as an ultimate and very altered form of the Mediterranean Neolithisation process. Despite its Atlantic position, this territory – corresponding mainly to Central/Southern Portugal is, in physical cultural geography, a landscape deeply connected historical process arriving from beyond Strait Gibraltar. The presence cardial pottery led ar...

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...