Pottery is considered as one of the most representative categories of artifacts in the cultural heritage domain. Nowadays, several 3D digitized replicas are publicly available over the Web. The content richness of 3D pottery is of great importance in the archaeological research domain. This information can be used by special software tools that will provide the archaeologist with automated shap...

Petrographic thin sections of pottery from five Formative Mexican archaeological sites show that exchanges of vessels between highland and lowland chiefly centers were reciprocal, or two-way. These analyses contradict recent claims that the Gulf Coast was the sole source of pottery carved with iconographic motifs. Those claims were based on neutron activation, which, by relying on chemical elem...

The Belleek pottery was established in County Fermanagh in 1857. The pottery designed and produced utilitarian stoneware and earthenware but is best known for its Parian porcelain production. The Irish Times describes the pottery: One wonders whether in any other modern works the same quietness and peace could be found...the skilled workers seem to be too deeply engrossed in their delicate hand...

The application of X-radiography in ceramic studies is becoming an increasingly valued method. Using the potential of industrial X-ray computed tomography (CT) for non-destructive testing as an archaeometric or archaeological method in pottery studies, especially regarding aspects such as manufacturing techniques or pottery fabrics, requires controlled data-acquisition and post-processing by sc...

Aiming to assist the archaeologist to restore excavated sherds, a virtual restoration system for pottery shape relics is developed based on their two characteristic features: symmetry axis and profile. An effective method of estimating the axis of the surface of revolution is presented first; then an approach for computing the complete profile is proposed. Because some pottery contains holes or...

The genus Capsicum is New World in origin and represents a complex of a wide variety of both wild and domesticated taxa. Peppers or fruits of Capsicum species rarely have been identified in the paleoethnobotanical record in either Meso- or South America. We report here confirmation of Capsicum sp. residues from pottery samples excavated at Chiapa de Corzo in southern Mexico dated from Middle to...

although many studies and excavations at islamic sites have been done, and something position of islamic pottery have been marked, but there is a lot of problem exist in this case like centers of pottery and stylistics diversity. therefore archaeological excavationswith accurate studies can solve very of this problems. in this paper il-khanid pottery from three season archeological excavation a...

Based on her study of distribution patterns, Vronwy Hankey suggested that Cyprus or Cypriots played some role in the trade of Mycenaean pottery eastwards to the Levant. She also noted that some of the Mycenaean pottery which reached both Cyprus and the Near East can-ied marks incised on handles or painted on bases. This paper examines the possible relationships between the marks, Mycenaean pott...

The Oneota who lived in large farming communities in the La Crosse locality from apPl"()~im(itely A.D. 1300 to 1625 are recognized by the characteristic ceramics tl1e¥ pfodllced. They manufactured shell-tempered ceramic vessels. that were much larger(indmore finely made than the grit-:-tempered pottery of the Woodland culturesthat inhabited Wisconsin prior to A.D. 1300. The use of shell· to dec...

abstract today, pottery in shahreza of isfahan is a valuable arts with its up and downs which has stabilized  its place among iranian pottery centers. the investigation of contemporary pottery in the course of  history shows that iranian potters have used predecessors' experiences, as well as remained  professions of pottery art such as soheili, bahari and fakhar, and tried to promote qual...