An important feature of the Minoan culture is the pottery of Kamares style, that documents the Cretan cultural production between the first half of the II millennium BC. This high level painted production characterized by the combination of several diverse motifs, presents an enormous decorative repertoire. The extraordinary variety of combinations between elementary motifs according to a compl...

the present article investigates the administrative structure of the pottery mound from an administrative management point of view. data obtained from excavation of the pottery mound has generated an extensive archeological databank relating to the beginning of the historical era with a focus on the emergence of management and administrative systems in the central iranian plateau. in the proto-...

This paper describes some statistical analyses of a particular archaeological material (pottery) originating at some sites in the city of Tours. An important part of the archaeological study of pottery is the comparison of ceramic assemblages to establish the absolute dates of contexts. In this paper, a statistical model is built to assess this comparison. The statistical procedure uses classic...

This paper deals with pottery assemblage from the chalcolithic phase of the site of Gilund in Rajsamand district ofRajasthan. Though pottery from this site has been studied earlier (Shinde et al 2002), however there was no literatureavailable on the ceramic chronology of Gilund with layers ascertained to it. This paper tries to build up a ceramicchronology in the site in order to indentify diff...

This study utilizes OSL-SAR, TL-SAR, and TL-MAAD methods to date heated quartz extracted from burnt clay pottery samples the Lingjiatan archaeological site, China. The OSL components of were determined by deconvoluting CW-OSL curve, Fast Ratio value was used distinguish whether initial signal dominated fast component. results show two types characteristics in signals: Type I is component (Fast ...

One of the most striking of the Hellenistic pottery fabrics has not come to the notice of Bulletin readers for some years, although the Museum has a good selection of it. This pottery is decorated, if at all, with reliefs, and has a glaze which is so often bright green that the ware is referred to as "green-glazed," even though other colors occur. With the recent addition of several pieces, the...

Two markers of regional exchange in the Eastern Mediterranean during the first millennium BCE are the White Painted and Bichrome Wares from Cyprus's Cypro-Geometric and Cypro-Archaic periods. Although these ceramics are often assumed to be imports from Cyprus, excavations in southern Turkey at sites such as Tarsus-Gözlükule, Kilise Tepe, Sirkeli Höyük, and Kinet Höyük suggest that at least some...

The Bell Beaker site near Brodek u Prostějova (Czechia) has yielded remains of a large timber construction accompanied by four symmetrical ritual deposits with numerous artefacts, including more than fifty ceramic vessels. Their decoration consists incised patterns, in nineteen cases preserved white inlaid incrustations. To investigate the social relations at this extraordinary site, multi-anal...