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These seventeen papers, from a colloquium held at the XIVth UISPP Congress at the University of Liege in 2001, combine archaeological, ethnographic and technical approaches to present the current state of research in the study of pottery technology. The colloquium's aim was to highlight key topics, such as clay preparation, shaping techniques, decoration and firing and post-firing treatments, whilst addressing problems in methodologies. Ethnographic contributions present case studies from the Amazon, Sub-Saharan Africa, India, Gambi and Senegal; two papers present methods of technical identification; nine papers reconstruct and interpret pottery manufacturing processes in archaeological contexts. These examine assemblages from Neolithic and Chalcolithic sites in Belgium, France, Switzerland, Mauritania and the Levant. Nine papers in English, the rest in French; all have English and French abstracts.

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Author:   Dominique Bosquet ,  Alexandre Livingstone Smith ,  Rémi Martineau
Publisher:   BAR Publishing
Imprint:   BAR Publishing
Volume:   No. 1349
Weight:   0.909kg
ISBN:  

9781841716954

ISBN 10:   1841716952
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   15 March 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English & French

Table of Contents

"1) Linking Society with the Compositional Analyses of Pottery (Dean Arnold); 2) Transactional Politics and the Local and Regional Exchange of Pottery Resources in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Brenda Bowser); 3) The Source. Clay Selection and Processing Practices in Sub-Saharian Africa (Olivier Gosselain and Alexandre Livingstone Smith); 4) Variabilité technique et identité culturelle: un cas d'étude ethnoarchéologique en Andhra Pradesh (Laure Degoy); 5) Cultural Contacts and Technical Heritage in Senegambia (Moustapha Sall); 6) Reconnaissance des techniques et des méthodes de façonnage par l'analyse des macrotraces: étude ethnoarchéologique dans la vallée du Sénégal (Agnès Gelbert); 7) Utilisation du dégraissant végétal en contexte néolithique: hypothèses technologiques et Expérimentation (Claude Sestier); 8) Use of Image Analysis in Determining Multi-Source Ceramic Materials (Bruce Velde); 9) La chaîne opératoire de la céramique rubanée: première tentative de reconstitution (Dominique Bosquet et al.); 10) Techno-Functional Aspects of a Middle Neolithic Pottery Assemblage (Spiere ""De Hel"", Belgium)(Bart Vanmontfort); 11) Techniques de fabrication de céramiques du Néolithique moyen I en Armorique (France)(Gwenaëlle Hamon et al.); 12) Exemples de reconstitutions des chaînes opératoires des poteries du Néolithique Moyen II dans la moitié nord de la France (Caroline Colas); 13) Identification of the Beater and Anvil Technique in Neolithic Context : Experimental Approach (Rémi Martineau); 14) Matériaux et types céramiques à Saint-Blaise, station néolithique suisse (2770-2626 av. J.-C.). Poterie exogène et production locale (Simonpietro di Pierro et al.); 15) Perception stylistique et technologie céramique : reconstitution et interprétation des techniques de façonnage des poteries archéologiques de Koumbi Saleh (Mauritanie, IX ème -XV ème siècles)(Barbara van Dooselaere); 16) Identifying Social Entities at a Macro-Regional Level: Chalcolithic Ceramics of South Levant as a Case Study (Valentine Roux et Marie-Agnès Courty); 17) Comparing Chaînes Opératoires : Technological, Cultural and Chronological Features of Pre-Pastoral and Pastoral Ceramic and Lithic Production (Elena Garcea)"

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