Abstract The site of al-Bal?d (Southern Oman), identified as the ancient ?af?r, was a major port city in Islamic period. Its strategic position and its history, strongly interdependent with that neighbouring regions, gave it an important socio-economic role. abundant ceramics rich diverse archaeological materials recovered at prove has always maintained relationships people living inland and, s...

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...

This research aims to provide a better understanding of the diffusion ceramic morphological traits in Greater Antilles and how communities experienced integrated new ideas into their manufacturing traditions. The chaîne opératoire approach together with practice theory produce holistic methodology unveil social temporal connections between artifacts, sites communities. A detailed petrographic m...

This article presents a high-resolution chronology of Wairajirca pottery in the Huánuco basin, which has been identified as frontier region between Andean highlands and Amazonian rain forests: its is known for having mixed features from both areas. However, lack fine-grained radiocarbon datasets handicapped comparative studies’ attempts to track detail early development process. Our new based o...

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...

Purpose . Barsova Gora is a unique archaeological and landscape site located in the Tyumen Region (West Siberia) of Russian Federation. The technical technological analysis Kalinkino ceramics from Barsov gorodok III/2 settlement (25 vessels) was performed accordance with method developed by A. Bobrinsky. Results For manufacture vessels at settlement, ferruginous clays were selected. Five subspe...

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...