Copper, gold, and silver artefacts, together with evidence of metallurgical activities, have been retrieved from Late Neolithic strata in several settlements Greek Eastern Macedonia. Recent excavations at Dikili Tash revealed that gold was further used paints for the decoration pottery. It appears area’s inhabitants had a great familiarity different metals distinct stages production-elaboration...

The research conducted at site 7 in Krzyż Wielkopolski has provided evidence of long-term occupation this area from the Late Palaeolithic (Sviderian) to modern era. Undoubtedly most intensive is related Early Mesolithic communities Preboreal and Boreal Periods. However, pottery fragments, flint tools, perhaps also belemnite artefacts, all associated with societies Corded Ware culture, prove Neo...

In this paper we propose an image-based pottery shape and school identification and classification system for an unknown pottery or fragment. This system is designed to assist archaeologists and students to identify and record objects quickly and accurately. We present several image retrieval and computer vision techniques and describe their applications within the domain of archaeological stud...

The current view for the southern Levant is that wild game hunting was replaced by herd management over the course of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period, but there is significant debate over the timing, scale and origin of this transition. To date, most relevant studies focus either on wild game exploitation in the periods prior to domestication or on classic markers of domestication of domesti...

• Wadi Fidan 61 revealed some of the earliest pottery in Faynan, southern Jordan. Compositional analysis provides evidence six distinct clay recipes. Pottery was manufactured from raw materials available within 5 km site. diversity may reflect collection across a forager-farmer taskscape. The Faynan region Jordan became center industrial-scale metallurgical production during Bronze and Iron Age...

This thesis is an examination of the evidence for Dark-age and Viking-age pottery in the Hebrides. A brief discussion of current knowledge of Hebridean ceramics shows how unusually ceramic-rich this area is in comparison with the rest of Scotland and much of the British Isles. But the Dark Age and Viking Age in the Hebrides and the pottery of those periods are very poorly known. The excavation ...