• Wadi Fidan 61 revealed some of the earliest pottery in Faynan, southern Jordan. Compositional analysis provides evidence six distinct clay recipes. Pottery was manufactured from raw materials available within 5 km site. diversity may reflect collection across a forager-farmer taskscape. The Faynan region Jordan became center industrial-scale metallurgical production during Bronze and Iron Age...

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...

music in iran has a long history. in the early islamic period, music was denounced. in the umayyad period, music still faced opposition from some jurisprudents and a group of muslims. but in the next century, due to positive attitude of governments as well as scientific attitudes of many scholars and scientists of that era, arts received public attention.  the design of women was carved on clay...

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...

Pottery is a craft made of clay that the Indonesian people are familiar with because it spread throughout Nusantara (the archipelago). One region has long been known as producer pottery products for generations Bentangan Village in Klaten Regency. production this village done to preserve ancestral heritage and fulfill community’s daily needs. Society dynamic nature marked by changes community's...

One hundred and nineteen samples of clay (n = 42), rock and sand temper (n = 7), and pottery (n = 70) from the various drainages in and around the North Carolina Sandhills were analyzed by instrumental neutron activation analysis (NAA) at the University of Missouri Research Reactor Center (MURR). Here we report the analytical methods and describe some of the chemical patterns identified in the ...

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...