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...

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...

although many studies and excavations at islamic sites have been done, and something position of islamic pottery have been marked, but there is a lot of problem exist in this case like centers of pottery and stylistics diversity. therefore archaeological excavationswith accurate studies can solve very of this problems. in this paper il-khanid pottery from three season archeological excavation a...

A mysterious Roman kiln from Hengelo (province of Overijssel). In Overijssel) a rural settlement was excavated by SOB Research, and the pottery studied author. The belongs in Rhein-Weser-Germanische tradition dates mainly 1st 2nd centuries AD. fill well contained not only huge number potsherds other archaeological material, but also fragments kiln. Considering fabric clay, absence signs very hi...

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...

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 use of scanning electron microscopy combined with energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence analysis in studies of archaeological pottery is discussed. The methods are described and results of their application to studies of Precolumbian glossy black pottery from northern Peru are reported in some detail.

Pre-Pottery Neolithic assemblages are best known from the fertile areas of the Mediterranean Levant. The archaeological site of Jebel Qattar 101 (JQ-101), at Jubbah in the southern part of the Nefud Desert of northern Saudi Arabia, contains a large collection of stone tools, adjacent to an Early Holocene palaeolake. The stone tool assemblage contains lithic types, including El-Khiam and Helwan ...

Austronesian speaking peoples left Southeast Asia and entered the Western Pacific c.4000-3000 years ago, continuing on to colonise Remote Oceania for the first time, where they became the ancestral populations of Polynesians. Understanding the impact of these peoples on the mainland of New Guinea before they entered Remote Oceania has eluded archaeologists. New research from the archaeological ...