Many potteries have been discovered from excavations and a surface survey at Shahdad, but few works have beendone to examine craft specialization in pottery production at this important site. Different types of potteries, some ofwhich bearing potter marks demonstrate that craftsmen of the site had involved in manufacturing of centralized potteryproduction. A number of kilns and many waste of po...

Analysis of organic residues in pottery vessels has been successful in detecting a range of animal and plant products as indicators of food preparation and consumption in the past. However, the identification of plant remains, especially grain crops in pottery, has proved elusive. Extending the spectrum is highly desirable, not only to strengthen our understanding of the dispersal of crops from...

The Bronze Age—Iron Age transition in Central Asia (ca. 800 BCE) was a period of significant cultural change that heavily influenced by greater population interaction and mobility. Indeed, scholars have increasingly emphasized the role “food globalization prehistory” has played defining this period. In mountain foothills Kazakhstan, culinary traditions from across Eurasia were combined through ...

The Eastern European steppe and forest-steppe is a key region for understanding the emergence of pottery in Europe. vast encompasses basins two major waterways, Don Volga rivers, was occupied by hunter-gatherer-fisher communities attracted to highly productive forest/aquatic ecotones. precise dates inception production this function unknown, but such information vital charting pan-Eurasian disp...

this paper presents the petrographic examination results on the thirteen pottery sherds from the first season of excavation of tepe gratziani in sistan plain. in order to specify whether the pottery were local or imported, conducted experiments have been performed by polarizing microscope of jame swift model in the petrographic lab of the institute of cultural heritage which based on the review...

The study of pottery can be used to provide insight into past cultures. Pottery is ubiquitous on archaeological sites in the Near East and because of its durability; fragments often survive longer than artifacts made from less-durable materials. This study addresses the use of pottery to answer the question: Were Mesopotamia and Elam trading partners from 3000 to 2500 B.C.? Located in present d...

Applicability of PGAA on pottery archaeometry has been proved in investigations of pre-Columbian figurines from Venezuela. PGAA is a non-destructive bulk analytical method, capable to determine concentration of majorand some trace components. We take part in the MÖB-DAAD project aimed to investigate Hungarian Neolithic pottery, and also in an IAEA CRP with more methodological objectives. Within...

pictorial representations of ancient iranian oral narratives became prevalent gradually during middle ages of islamic period in some of  major ceramic workshops of iran and central asia. the paper focuses on one of such narratives which has been originated from khwaday-namag (shahnama)and represented on the outer side of a pottery dated to 6th century ah, recovered somewhere located in rey or k...

A new method for determining the vitrification rate of pottery depending on the firing temperature was devised using secondary electron images (SEI) of scanning electron microscope (SEM). Several tests were performed to establish the appropriate operating conditions of SEM and reproducibility as well as to examine the applicability of the method. The grayscale values converted from each pixel o...