with the development of the silk road in early islam, the pottery art of northern and north-eastern parts of iran were affected by imported chinese pottery. at that time, the most common way of glaze decoration in china was a method called “sancai” which found its way to iran through this business route and became a source of imitation for iranian artists. in this technique, known as glaze, the...

OBJECTIVES To identify blood lead predictors and the prevalence of neuropsychiatric symptoms in firearm users of public security in Mexico. MATERIAL AND METHODS A cross-sectional study was performed on 65 males. We obtained socio-occupational data and determined venous blood lead (blood (B), lead (Pb) - BPb), as well as neuropsychiatric symptoms using the Q-16 questionnaire. A multiple linear...

Abstract In this work, pigments of majolicas made between the sixteenth century and eighteenth from Gerace have been characterized by micro-Raman spectroscopy. Majolica, known also as pottery, was originally used to identify all objects clay materials. ten samples were analyzed: two vases, six majolica fragments in Gerace, one vase uncertain origin (probably or Caltagirone) Venetian origin. The...

Monagrillo (3520–1300 cal BC) is Panama’s oldest pottery. Archaeologists assumed it was a low-fired expedient ware made with any available clay. We studied 1) clay sources (thin sections; DTA; shrinkage, porosity, and plasticity tests), 2) manufacturing techniques (xeroradiography; thin sections; visual inspection), and 3) firing temperature (SEM-EDS; porosity tests). We identified two clay typ...

Pottery, baked clay has been in practice the South-south region of Nigeria, long before discovery crude oil about 1956 present Bayelsa State. The fact remains that potters never had it easy hardening their wares through open fire technique characterized by excessive loss heat and wares, uncontrollable temperature, weak, porous, dull, low temperature unglazed addition to health hazard. This pape...

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...

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 ...