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"" . . . a highly innovative study that foregrounds the decision-making and technological choices of Neolithic potters . . . "" —Antiquity "" . . . imaginative, rigorous and admirably lucid study."" —Journal of Hellenic Studies The first of two systematic reports on the more than one million sherds of pottery recovered from the Franchthi Cave and Paralia which will significantly increase our understanding of Neolithic pottery and Neolithic society in southern Greece. Illustrated.

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Author:   Karen D. Vitelli
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Volume:   v. 1
Weight:   1.238kg
ISBN:  

9780253319807

ISBN 10:   0253319803
Pages:   542
Publication Date:   22 August 1993
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword (T.W. Jacobsen) Preface Introduction Part I Theory and Methods Chapter One: The Ceramic Classification/Introduction/Rationale and Procedures/Ceramic Production at Franchthi/Terminology Chapter Two: The Characterization Analyses Chapter Three: The Ceramic Phasing/Procedures/The Ceramic Phases/The Ceramic Subphases/The Boundaries Part II Excavation Contexts: FCP 7 and FCP 2 Chapter Four: Introduction Chapter Five: Ceramic Interphase 0/1 (Int 0/1)/Definition/Contexts/Summary: The Beginnings of Pottery Use at Franchthi Chapter Six: Franchthi Ceramic Phase 1 (FCP 1)/Definition/Contexts/Summary: The Nature of FCP 1 Occupation Chapter Seven: Franchthi Ceramic Phase 2 (FCP 2)/General Introduction Chapter Eight: Ceramic Interphase 1/2 (Int 1/2)/Definition/Contexts/Summary of Int 1/2 Contexts Chapter Nine: Ceramic Subphase 2.1 (FCP 2.1)/Definition/Contexts/Summary of FCP 2.1 Contexts Chapter Ten: Ceramic Subphase 2.2 (FCP 2.2)/Definition/Contexts/Summary of FCP 2.2 Contexts Chapter Eleven: Ceramic Subphase 2.3 (FCP 2.3)/Definition/Contexts/Summary of FCP 2.3 Contexts Chapter Twelve: Ceramic Subphase 2.4 (FCP 2.4)/Definition/Contexts/Summary of FCP 2.4 Contexts Chapter Thirteen: Ceramic Subphase 2.5 (FCP 2.5)/Definition/Contexts/Summary of FCP 2.5 Contexts Chapter Fourteen: The FCP 2/FCP 3 Boundary Part III The Pottery Chapter Fifteen: Introduction to the Pottery Analysis Chapter Sixteen: FCP 1 Lime Ware/Introduction/Calcareous Class: Lime Ware Chapter Seventeen: FCP 1 Sandy Ware/Noncalcareous Class: Sandy Ware Chapter Eighteen: FCP 1 Minor Wares/Noncalcareous Class: Andesite Ware/Calcareous Class: Ungritted Ware/Calcareous Class: Serpentine Ware Chapter Nineteen: FCP 2 Lime Ware/Introduction to the Pottery of Int 1/2 and FCP 2/Calcareous Class: Lime Ware Chapter Twenty: FCP 2 Sandy Ware/Noncalcareous Class: Sandy Ware Chapter Twenty-one: Int 1/2 and FCP 2 Minor Wares/Noncalcareous Class: Andesite Ware/Calcareous Class: Ungritted Ware/Calcareous Class: Serpentine Ware/Calcareous Class: White Ware Chapter Twenty-two: Introduction to Int 1/2 and FCP 2 Urf Ware/Calcareous Calss: Urf Ware Chapter Twenty-three: Int 1/2 Urf Ware Chapter Twenty-four: FCP 2.1 Urf Ware Chapter Twenty-five: FCP 2.2 Urf Ware Chapter Twenty-six: Early Urf Varieties Chapter Twenty-seven: FCP 2.3 Urf Ware Chapter Twenty-eight: FCP 2.4 Urf Ware Chapter Twenty-nine: Late Urf Varieties Chapter Thirty: FCP 2.5 Urf Ware Chapter Thirty-one: Coarse Urf: Building Procedures and Vessel Function/Coarse Urf Bottomless Vessels/Coarse Urf Gouged Bowls Chapter Thirty-two: Urf Decorative Styles/The Patterned Urf Sample/The Nature of the Patterned Urf Style/The Decorative Style of Pattern-Burnished Urf Chapter Thirty-three: Urf Firing Practices and Technological Development Part IV From Potsherds to People: The Implications of the Analyses Chapter Thirty-four: The Location and Scale of Production/The Location of Pottery Production/The Scale of Pottery Production Chapter Thrity-five: Pots, Potters, and Neolithic Society/Cooking Pots/Pots and Cooking/Pots for Purposes Other than Cooking/Pots as Symbols/Specialist Potters/Potters as Shamans?/Pots as Markers of Social Change Documents Document 1: Frequency Tables Document 2: Pottery Joins Document 3: Phasing within Trenches References Index Tables Plans Figures Plates

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KAREN D. VITELLI is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Chairperson, Graduate Program in Classical Archaeology at Indiana University.

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