clay and earthenware statuettes of women are amongst first human artworks of prehistoric era. after historic period the tradition of making women earthenware statuettes continued in islamic era with special changes. these earthenware statuettes including different method of making and decoration often have made in important persian pottery centers as rey and kashan cities. the seljuk and il-kha...

Exposure to high lead concentrations produces severe alterations in central nervous system development and, consequently, in the behavior of both experimental animals and children (l-5). However, in asymptomatic children exposed to lead intoxication the resulting intellectual and behavioral abnormalities may be expressed in different waysi.e., as hyperactivity (S), fine motor incoordination (7)...

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 so-called Early Roman Ware 1, identified by P. Reynolds in the Alicante region, was widely distributed eastern part of Iberian Peninsula. presence this ware Elche (Alicante) and Valencia opened possibility that it across region. Indeed, has been considered as a possible regional product area Valencia. In Cartagena (ancient Carthago Nova), where our study concentrated originally, ERW1 is rel...

Abstract This work investigates the technology of pottery production at Chalcolithic site Radovanu-La Muscalu (first half fifth millennium BCE), in southern Romania. The excavation this settlement yielded a rich and well-contextualised archaeological assemblage that represents last phases development Boian material culture, phenomenon spread throughout lower Danube area end sixth BCE first BCE....

This paper describes some statistical analyses of a particular archaeological material (pottery) originating at some sites in the city of Tours. An important part of the archaeological study of pottery is the comparison of ceramic assemblages to establish the absolute dates of contexts. In this paper, a statistical model is built to assess this comparison. The statistical procedure uses classic...

This paper deals with pottery assemblage from the chalcolithic phase of the site of Gilund in Rajsamand district ofRajasthan. Though pottery from this site has been studied earlier (Shinde et al 2002), however there was no literatureavailable on the ceramic chronology of Gilund with layers ascertained to it. This paper tries to build up a ceramicchronology in the site in order to indentify diff...

One of the most striking of the Hellenistic pottery fabrics has not come to the notice of Bulletin readers for some years, although the Museum has a good selection of it. This pottery is decorated, if at all, with reliefs, and has a glaze which is so often bright green that the ware is referred to as "green-glazed," even though other colors occur. With the recent addition of several pieces, the...

Two markers of regional exchange in the Eastern Mediterranean during the first millennium BCE are the White Painted and Bichrome Wares from Cyprus's Cypro-Geometric and Cypro-Archaic periods. Although these ceramics are often assumed to be imports from Cyprus, excavations in southern Turkey at sites such as Tarsus-Gözlükule, Kilise Tepe, Sirkeli Höyük, and Kinet Höyük suggest that at least some...