0278© 2002 All righ Archaeologists often stress the importance of sedentism, large population sizes, and the economy of scale in the development of ceramic technologies worldwide. Yet pottery making is known among many mobile and small-scale societies that make only small numbers of pots. Unfortunately, we know very little about how this technology was organized in such societies. Using Instrum...

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...

Majolica pottery is one of the most characteristic tablewares produced during the Medieval and Renaissance periods. Majolica technology was introduced to the Iberian Peninsula by Islamic artisans during Medieval times, and its production and popularity rapidly spread throughout Spain and eventually other locations in Europe and the Americas. The prestige and importance of Spanish majolica was v...

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-...

The successful removal of a failing adhesive from archaeological pottery is facilitated by its identification. The aim of the present study was to establish an analytical path for the identification of adhesives commonly found on archaeological pottery, using resources that would be accessible to a conservation laboratory in Australia. Consultation and research of literature established adhesiv...

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...

Jafari-Shakib Reza, Rafiei Alireza, Ansari Mostafa, Khalilian Alireza, Hajilooi Mehrdad Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Rasht Medical School, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht; Cellular and Molecular Biology Research Center, Sari Medical School, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari; Department of Internal Medicine, Ekbatan Hospital, Medical School, University of...

1. Deputy of Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran 2. Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Social Determinants in Health Promotion Research Center, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran 4. Dept. of Public Health, School of Health, Zabol University of Medical Science...

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...