Ceramics investigation: research questions and sampling criteria

Gliozzo, Elisabetta

doi:10.1007/s12520-020-01128-9

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“…clayey materials) belonging to the pertinent geographical area for comparison, and characterize them using the main and most suitable analytical techniques (Montana 2020;Hein and Kilikoglou 2020). At this regard, numerous approaches can be used, based mainly on petrographic and/or geochemical analysis, according to the ceramic paste (coarse and fine, respectively), although a multi-analytical study is always preferable for the possibility of disclosing different aspect of the ceramic production and to better assess their provenance and production technology (Maritan 2019;Gliozzo 2020).…”

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Nile River clayey materials in Sudan: Chemical and isotope analysis as reference data for ancient pottery provenance studies

Maritan

Gravagna

Cavazzini

et al. 2023

Quaternary International

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This research aims to define a chemical, mineralogical and strontium isotope database for clayey materials collected along the Nile River banks (White Nile, Blue Nile, Atbara and Main Nile Rivers) in Sudan, to be use for prehistoric and historic pottery provenance studies. The approach here adopted consists in using the clayey materials tout court, without any pre-treatment, such as the depuration from the sand-and silt-sized fractions, in order to maintain unaltered, the mineralogical and geochemical features of the natural resources possibly available also in ancient times for the pottery production, thus avoiding any possible preparation bias. Results indicate that sediments along different section of the Nile River display characteristic geochemical and strontium isotopic signature, representing an important discrimination tool applied to ancient ceramics provenance and human mobility studies.

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Nile River clayey materials in Sudan: Chemical and isotope analysis as reference data for ancient pottery provenance studies

Maritan

Gravagna

Cavazzini

et al. 2023

Quaternary International

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“…Decomposition of carbonates, probable limestone, are visible around the voids. This is apparent from the more widespread fusion of the later sample's matrix and the lack of isolated pores (Gliozzo, 2020; Maniatis et al, 1983; Tite, 1999). The microstructural characterization of the coarse‐ and fine‐grained pastes based on the degree of firing (SEM Figures 3) indicates that these potteries are consistent with a calcium rich clayey paste containing quartz inclusions as local additives.…”

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Cathodoluminescence microscopy for interpreting the fabric and heating process of ancient pottery: Preliminary study on the technological features of pottery from the Kur River basin

2021

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Heterogeneous sherds were collected from 10 archaeological sites located in the Kur River Basin (KRB) in southern Iran. They have been analysed through routinely standard microscopic approach, including momentous cathodoluminescence microscopy in order to characterize the pottery fabrication and diversities in raw material and firing behaviour between different pottery production from the eighth to third millennium BCE. Cathodoluminescence interpretations identify the diverse properties of the sherds from the KRB material. Conversely, their microfabrics are essentially conceded to a not tightly packed fabrication. Characterizing the raw material, additives and initial vitrification texture were identified through petrography and SEM. The effect of heating in such heterogenous body was essentially characterized by cathodoluminescence microscopy. Combining these methods demonstrates the advantages of multimicroscopical methods for studying insights among diverse raw materials and heat gradient from the surface into the core of ancient pottery, which led to display selective experimental pottery production.

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“…Taking up the concept already expressed in Gliozzo (2020a), the archaeometric questions guide both sampling and experimental choices, besides providing the key criterion of evaluation for the entire research project. Research questions should be wide and necessarily contextualised in a historical perspective (the "big picture" in Gliozzo 2020a).…”

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Mortars, plasters and pigments—research questions and sampling criteria

Gliozzo

Pizzo

Russa

2021

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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Within the Topical Collection, this paper represents an introductory contribution aimed at describing and discussing the research questions and the sampling criteria in the field of mortars, plasters and pigments studies. The paper is divided into three parts. In the first part, some terminological issues are clarified and the building archaeology is introduced as an indispensable method for sampling and interpreting archaeometric results. In the second part, the most common research questions are presented and discussed. Some case studies are also reported to clarify what the expected results may be. The sampling problem is faced in the third part, where the criteria for a representative, functional and suitable selection are provided.

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Ceramics investigation: research questions and sampling criteria

Cited by 37 publications

References 66 publications

Nile River clayey materials in Sudan: Chemical and isotope analysis as reference data for ancient pottery provenance studies

Nile River clayey materials in Sudan: Chemical and isotope analysis as reference data for ancient pottery provenance studies

Cathodoluminescence microscopy for interpreting the fabric and heating process of ancient pottery: Preliminary study on the technological features of pottery from the Kur River basin

Mortars, plasters and pigments—research questions and sampling criteria

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