Eretrian ceramic products through time: Investigating the early history of a Greek metropolis

Charalambidou, Xénia; Kiriatzi, Evangelia; Müller, Noémi S.; Georgakopoulou, Myrto; Çelka, Sylvie Müller; Krapf, Tobias

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.01.012

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“…There are fewer studies carried out using WDXRF 47–52 than with ED-XRF, 11,53–57 which is used more frequently for the analysis of archaeological ceramics. The superiority of WDXRF arises from the detection of light elements (LE) with better precision and resolution.…”

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Handheld X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) Versus Wavelength Dispersive XRF: Characterization of Chinese Blue-and-White Porcelain Sherds Using Handheld and Laboratory-Type XRF Instruments

Franci

2019

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Almost all archaeometric studies on Chinese ceramics are carried out on the excavation materials. Therefore, a detailed, comparable database that defines different workshops and production periods already exists. But the masterpieces preserved at museums, art galleries, and/or private collections, which are artistically considered as genuine artifacts, also require similar scientific investigations to define their provenance and authenticity. The research on artworks is only possible with the use of portable, noninvasive techniques that are developing daily concerning their capability of detection limits, rate of measurement, and ease of use. In this study, the results obtained with a handheld X-ray fluorescence (XRF) (also called portable XRF) and wavelength dispersive XRF instrument were compared to evidence the efficiency and drawbacks of the portable model. To achieve this goal, 12 sherds, which represent blue-and-white porcelains of Yuan and Ming Dynasties (China), were analyzed and the chemical composition of the body, glaze, and blue decor were identified. The comparison of the results with the measurements carried out on the excavation materials, which are produced in both southern and northern China, revealed the authenticity of the artifacts. Even sodium cannot be detected with portable XRF, the distinction of different production centers is possible with the detection of major (Mg, Al, Si, K, Ca), minor (Fe, Ti), and trace elements (Zr, Sr, Rb).

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Handheld X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) Versus Wavelength Dispersive XRF: Characterization of Chinese Blue-and-White Porcelain Sherds Using Handheld and Laboratory-Type XRF Instruments

Franci

2019

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“…Rare grains of highly altered basic volcanic rocks are also reported in these sediments and in the archaeological pottery deriving from their exploitation (Charalambidou et al . , 532).…”

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Exploring Diversity in Household Pottery Traditions in Crusader Greece: a Case Study from the City of Thebes, Boeotia

2019

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This paper provides new data on an under‐documented topic in Aegean archaeology, that of the impact of Latin–Greek cohabitation on craftsmanship, socio‐economic organization and household pottery traditions. The chosen approach is a petrographic study of the provenance and technology of 37 cooking pots, jugs, basins and storage jars from the city of Thebes, Boeotia. The ceramics span from the late 12th to the mid‐14th century and thereby cover the periods of Byzantine, Frankish and Catalan control over the city. The analysis indicates that most pottery products were not locally made during these periods. Pottery consumption at Thebes involved, in the 12th/13th century, regional products from northern Boeotia, while pottery supplies from Euboea that had developed under Byzantine rule continued into the 14th century, well after Boeotia and Euboea came into the hands of, respectively, Frankish and Venetian lords in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade (1204). The petrographic analysis also allows for the characterization of Byzantine and Latin tempering practices of the pottery fabrics. These results highlight phenomena of regional economic reliance in central Greece and provide rare evidence for the cross‐cultural diffusion of technological knowledge in the late medieval Mediterranean.

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“…The absence of wheel-made pottery on the northern Aegean island of Lemnos is worth mentioning given its strong affiliation with contemporary Trojan pottery traditions 27 . Further west, wheel-made pottery appears at Palamari on the central Aegean island of Skyros (Bonatsos and Romanou 2015, 58–62; Choleva 2015a) and at various sites on the east coast of the central Greek mainland: Thorikos in Attica (Nazou 2013, 229, 246); Pefkakia in Thessaly (Christmann 1996, 41); Lefkandi (Popham and Sackett 1968, 8), Manika (Sampson 1985, 123–46) and Eretria (Charalambidou et al 2016, 534; Müller-Celka et al 2018) in Euboea; Mitrou in Locris (Choleva 2015a, 152); and Thebes in Boeotia (Konsola 1981, 119–20, 122; see also Psaraki 2008). In the Cyclades, where vessels of the new western Anatolian style accumulated in large numbers (Angelopoulou 2003, 159–68; Sotirakopoulou 2016, 311, 369, 374, table 7.4), wheel-made pottery appears only at Ayia Irini on Keos 28 .…”

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Travelling With the Potter's Wheel in the Early Bronze Age Aegean

Choleva

2020

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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By adopting the chaîne opératoire approach as a dynamic theoretical and methodological framework for studying ancient technologies, this paper investigates the modalities behind the appearance of the potter's wheel in the Aegean during the Early Bronze Age II (c. 2550–2200 bc). Based on the comparative examination of ceramic assemblages from different Aegean sites, an extended technological study has been carried out in order to track the earliest wheel-made pottery and reconstruct the craft behaviours perpetrated by the use of the potter's wheel across the Aegean. The paper presents the results of this multi-site study and aims to (a) trace out the wheel-based technological traditions, (b) explore the contexts of the learning and transmission of the new tool, (c) shed light on the connectivity among Aegean and western Anatolian communities that enabled the transfer of the new craft knowledge, and, finally, (d) bring into view the mechanisms behind its emergence and appropriation. By considering technologies as representing an entire social system of knowing, perceiving and acting on the material world, it will be argued that the spread of the potter's wheel in the Aegean does not reflect a moment of linear diffusion of a technological innovation, adopted thanks to certain techno-functional advantages. Instead, it discloses the resilience of social identities and values embedded through the practical engagement of individuals in the production of their material culture. The potter's wheel, in fact, emerges as a socially and culturally mediated practice, specific to small groups of potters trained within a technological tradition of Anatolian origin, performing their craft in the Aegean socio-cultural milieus. Furthermore, its transfer reveals a multidirectional and dynamic crossing of material cultures that designated a navigable world where traditions, objects and people travelled, mixed and merged in unpredictable ways.

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Eretrian ceramic products through time: Investigating the early history of a Greek metropolis

Cited by 5 publications

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Handheld X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) Versus Wavelength Dispersive XRF: Characterization of Chinese Blue-and-White Porcelain Sherds Using Handheld and Laboratory-Type XRF Instruments

Handheld X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) Versus Wavelength Dispersive XRF: Characterization of Chinese Blue-and-White Porcelain Sherds Using Handheld and Laboratory-Type XRF Instruments

Exploring Diversity in Household Pottery Traditions in Crusader Greece: a Case Study from the City of Thebes, Boeotia

Travelling With the Potter's Wheel in the Early Bronze Age Aegean

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