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Pottery technology : principles and reconstruction /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rye, Owen S. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Taraxacum, 1981.
Series:Manuals on archeology ; 4.
Subjects:
Pottery > Analysis.
Archaeology > Methodology.
Céramique > Analyse.
Archéologie > Méthodologie.
Keramiek.
Wetenschappelijke technieken.
Archeologie.
Céramique > Technique.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Previous literature
  • The production sequence
  • Basic units of analysis
  • Stability and change
  • 2. Fieldwork
  • Archeological fieldwork
  • Conservation
  • Supplementary studies
  • 3. The production sequence
  • Materials and their preparation
  • Preparing the body
  • Forming operations
  • Drying
  • Surface treatments
  • Firing
  • Post-firing treatments
  • Technological considerations
  • Variations in properties
  • 4. Materials and their preparation
  • Clay
  • Non-plastic additives
  • Preparation of bodies
  • Surface coatings
  • Glazes
  • Methods of identifying materials
  • Surface coatings
  • 5. Forming
  • General considerations
  • Categories of attributes
  • General procedures
  • Primary forming techniques
  • Secondary forming techniques
  • Decorative forming techniques
  • 6. Firing
  • Techniques
  • Fuels
  • Control
  • Stages
  • Criteria for reconstructing firing techniques
  • 7. Applications of technological approaches
  • Case 1 : analyzing the pottery from Motupore Island, Papua New Guinea
  • Case 2 : Reconstructing the forming process of storage jars from Palestine.