Many potteries have been discovered from excavations and a surface survey at Shahdad, but few works have beendone to examine craft specialization in pottery production at this important site. Different types of potteries, some ofwhich bearing potter marks demonstrate that craftsmen of the site had involved in manufacturing of centralized potteryproduction. A number of kilns and many waste of po...

although many studies and excavations at islamic sites have been done, and something position of islamic pottery have been marked, but there is a lot of problem exist in this case like centers of pottery and stylistics diversity. therefore archaeological excavationswith accurate studies can solve very of this problems. in this paper il-khanid pottery from three season archeological excavation a...

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...

Majolica pottery is one of the most characteristic tablewares produced during the Medieval and Renaissance periods. Majolica technology was introduced to the Iberian Peninsula by Islamic artisans during Medieval times, and its production and popularity rapidly spread throughout Spain and eventually other locations in Europe and the Americas. The prestige and importance of Spanish majolica was v...

0278© 2002 All righ Archaeologists often stress the importance of sedentism, large population sizes, and the economy of scale in the development of ceramic technologies worldwide. Yet pottery making is known among many mobile and small-scale societies that make only small numbers of pots. Unfortunately, we know very little about how this technology was organized in such societies. Using Instrum...

The Belleek pottery was established in County Fermanagh in 1857. The pottery designed and produced utilitarian stoneware and earthenware but is best known for its Parian porcelain production. The Irish Times describes the pottery: One wonders whether in any other modern works the same quietness and peace could be found...the skilled workers seem to be too deeply engrossed in their delicate hand...

this paper presents the petrographic examination results on the thirteen pottery sherds from the first season of excavation of tepe gratziani in sistan plain. in order to specify whether the pottery were local or imported, conducted experiments have been performed by polarizing microscope of jame swift model in the petrographic lab of the institute of cultural heritage which based on the review...