Variability and continuity of ceramic manufacturing of prehistoric pottery from Upper Nubia, Sudan: An ethnographic comparison

D’Ercole, G.; Garcea, Elena Antonella Alda; Eramo, Giacomo; Muntoni, Italo M.

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.04.012

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“…The present author carried out an integrated stylistic, technological, and compositional analysis of the ceramic manufacturing traditions from Sai Island (northern Upper Nubia), dating to the early, middle, and late Holocene periods (D'Ercole 2017;D'Ercole et al 2015;D'Ercole et al 2017a). Furthermore, a longue durée analysis of the Nubian ceramic assemblages from prehistoric times to the Kerma and New Kingdom periods (3rd to 2nd millennium BC) was carried out within the framework of the ERC project "AcrossBorders" (D'Ercole et al 2017b).…”

Section: The Case Study Of Sai Island: Continuity and Discontinuity In The Chaînes Operatoires Of Nubian Potterymentioning

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Seventy Years of Pottery Studies in the Archaeology of Mesolithic and Neolithic Sudan

D’Ercole

2021

Afr Archaeol Rev

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This review article examines seventy years of research and methodological approaches to the analysis of Mesolithic and Neolithic pottery in Sudan. It begins with the studies done by A. J. Arkell at the end of the 1940s, leading to the definition of the Khartoum Mesolithic and Khartoum Neolithic ceramic traditions. The article then discusses the application of the concepts of ware, fabric, decorative technique, and chaîne opératoire to the analysis of pottery and the use of new classification tools and archaeometric methodologies. The implication of the concepts of cultural encounter and the communicative role of material culture for ceramic studies and the insights that ceramics can provide for understanding the interrelationships between humans and the landscape are also discussed.

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Section: The Case Study Of Sai Island: Continuity and Discontinuity In The Chaînes Operatoires Of Nubian Potterymentioning

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Seventy Years of Pottery Studies in the Archaeology of Mesolithic and Neolithic Sudan

D’Ercole

2021

Afr Archaeol Rev

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“…Esta noción ha sido retomada a partir del llamado "Giro Material" de las ciencias sociales, fundamentalmente por la rama de la "Antropología de las técnicas". El énfasis principal de este tipo de abordajes ha sido la indagación de las distintas secuencias implicadas en la realización de objetos (Lemmonier, 1986(Lemmonier, y 1992Gosselain, 1992Gosselain, y 2002Calvo Trías et al, 2004;García Roselló, 2009; Calvo Trias y García Roselló, 2012 y 2014; Albero Santacreu, 2014;D'Ercole et al, 2017).…”

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“…Los ejes que nos permiten entender las estrategias asociadas a la producción de vasijas son la obtención, secuenciada en el traslado hacia las fuentes de materias primas, la identificación de material potencialmente útil, y la selección y extracción del mismo, y la manufactura, subdividida en preparación de pastas, modelado, acabado y cocción. Este tipo de abordaje, por la amplitud de dimensiones prácticas que permite considerar simultáneamente, ha sido profusamente utilizado en las últimas dos décadas (Lemmonier, 1986(Lemmonier, y 1992Gosselain, 1992Gosselain, y 2002Calvo Trías et al, 2004;García Roselló, 2009;Feely, 2010;Calvo Trias y García Roselló, 2012Albero Santacreu, 2014;Frére;Giusta, 2017;D'Ercole et al, 2017;Di Prado, 2018;Carosio, 2018).…”

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La práctica alfarera durante el primer milenio de la Era en El Sunchal, Anfama (Dto. Tafí Viejo, Tucumán, Rep. Argentina). Trayectorias de vida, cadenas operativas y ¿tradición?

Franco¹

2019

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“…In recent years, it has also been devised the term ethno-archaeometry (Gosselain 1992). In this specific case, the different steps of the productive cycle were studied both for the analyses of contemporary pottery making communities (Cantin and Mayor 2018;Cau Ontiveros et al 2015;Buxeda et al 2003) and to compare contemporary ceramics with archaeological finds (D'Ercole et al 2017;Lindahl and Pikirayi 2010). This approach has several advantages.…”

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Comparative pottery technology between the Middle Ages and Modern times (Santarém, Portugal)

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Liberato

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Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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Combining historical, archaeological and experimental data, traditional and archaeological ceramics, from the Santarém district, with different chronology and functions have been studied. Our aim is to understand ancient pottery technology and to evaluate whether ceramic production followed similar principles in the Middle Ages (from the Islamic to the Christian domination) and Modern times. Moreover, traditional ceramics, knowing the productive process, have been used as a tool to interpret ancient pottery technology. We considered different utilitarian ceramic groups, namely fire, table and food-liquid container wares. Through the combination of optical microscopy (OM), X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD), X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF) with physical and mechanical tests, it has been possible to collect valuable information regarding pottery manufacturing, considering the age and the object function. Moreover, it is also considered the effect of raw materials mixing and ceramic paste preparation on ceramics final characteristics. Our results indicate that both during the Middle Ages and in Modern times, technical expertise played, and still play, a fundamental role in the creation of a specific object. In this specific case, behavioural and socio-cultural factor drove ceramists' decision when selecting between different technological solutions, and every decision or technical choice is/was taken depending on the functional and performance characteristics desired for a specific artefact. This happened during the Middle Ages, and is still happening nowadays for the production of traditional ceramics in the district of Santarém, Portugal.

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Variability and continuity of ceramic manufacturing of prehistoric pottery from Upper Nubia, Sudan: An ethnographic comparison

Cited by 12 publications

References 28 publications

Seventy Years of Pottery Studies in the Archaeology of Mesolithic and Neolithic Sudan

Seventy Years of Pottery Studies in the Archaeology of Mesolithic and Neolithic Sudan

La práctica alfarera durante el primer milenio de la Era en El Sunchal, Anfama (Dto. Tafí Viejo, Tucumán, Rep. Argentina). Trayectorias de vida, cadenas operativas y ¿tradición?

Comparative pottery technology between the Middle Ages and Modern times (Santarém, Portugal)

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