This article reports on the successful completion of a large-scale pilot project, where 3D scanning technology, and newly developed software to optimally identify the rotation axis of wheel-produced ceramics, were used as practical tools for pottery analysis. Approximately 1000 potsherds from several sites and periods were scanned, their axis of symmetry computed, and their mean profiles drawn....

The scale of late prehistoric sociopolitical complexity on the ColoracWPlateau has been widely debated in the American Southwest. Proponents of an alliance model useJeddito Yellow Ware) manufactured at Hopi Mesa villages) as one offtur index wares. This distributional study ofJeddito Yellow Ware challenges aspects of the alliance model by using a data set that contains over 430 yellow ware site...

The southern island of the Philippines is abundant in silicate minerals, including province Lanao del Norte. However, some these resources region are untapped for use as raw materials production various ceramic products industrial, pharmaceutical, and nanotechnology applications. These could include tiles, sanitary ware, dinnerware, insulating bricks, porcelain, membranes coatings. Some explore...

The excavations of the multilayer site Algay in 2021 confirmed stratigraphical strata Neolithic and Eneolithic layers. cultural layers with artifacts Orlovskaya culture are well stratified. faunistic remains period numerous have different localization. This is also evidence several stages occupation this place by people during Neolithic. There solely wild species animals. stone tools characteri...