San Giovenale is a small inland Etruscan community approximately 60 km north of Rome. The site wa... more San Giovenale is a small inland Etruscan community approximately 60 km north of Rome. The site was excavated between 1956 and 1965 and the focus of the research has been aimed at the archaic period as well as the proto- Villanova period. The Late Etruscan period has up to now been more or less neglected. This resent work is to a large extent based on pottery and one cornerstone of the study is the belief that a majority of this Late Etruscan pottery is locally produced, not only the coarse ware but also the simpler tableware such as Late Creamware. One possible way to verify the hypotheses of a local production is by comparing the raw material components of the coarse ware and the tableware as well as clay deposits around the San Giovenale site. Very little of this kind of combined work between clay surveying, laboratory analyses of clays and pottery (thin-section analyses, thermal analyses, XRF-analyses, Carbon analyse and Mossbauerspectroscopy) and traditional studies of vessel shape, decoration and vessel function has previously been done on the small Etruscan inland settlements. (Less)
Present and past : ceramics and homesteads : an ethnoarchaeological project in the Buhera distric... more Present and past : ceramics and homesteads : an ethnoarchaeological project in the Buhera district, Zimbabwe
Perforated vessels in one form or the other are found in ceramic assemblages in most societies fr... more Perforated vessels in one form or the other are found in ceramic assemblages in most societies from early prehistoric time onwards. They vary greatly in shape and size, indicating a multitude of uses. This paper focuses on a particular type of perforated vessel – the perforated open cylinder, a “vessel” with no base, or rather with rims at both ends. This means that its function as a container is limited and it could only work when standing on a upright surface, e.g. on the ground. Another plausible function could be an extension “pipe”, for example, on a permanent furnace. In this paper we refer to experiments on the use of the perforated cylinder for heat-demanding crafts, more specifically what temperatures can be reached without using bellows – natural draught – in perforated cylinders of different size and shape, and which type of fuel is the most appropriate. (Less)
We report the first detailed chemical, microstructural and thermal analyses of a growing corpus o... more We report the first detailed chemical, microstructural and thermal analyses of a growing corpus of metallurgical tuyeres from the wider archaeological landscape of Great Zimbabwe in southern Africa ...
In the Grodinge project pottery was recovered from the five Neolithic sites, totaling c. 280 kg. ... more In the Grodinge project pottery was recovered from the five Neolithic sites, totaling c. 280 kg. A selected sample of pottery from four of these sites, i.e. the Eklundshov, Smallan, Kyrktorp and Kvedesta sites, has been studied more closely and also analysed technologically.
Most work on the Great Zimbabwe tradition has focused on Great Zimbabwe itself and its major succ... more Most work on the Great Zimbabwe tradition has focused on Great Zimbabwe itself and its major successor settlements. Smaller, contemporary stonewalled sites, some hundreds of kilometres from Great Zimbabwe, have been only mapped in most cases. Our goal has been to begin to explore both the homesteads within stone-enclosures at smaller Great Zimbabwe-tradition sites, and to seek out homesteads lying outside the small stone enclosures. In this paper I discuss ongoing excavations at two Great Zimbabwe-tradition sites, Kagumbudzi and Muchuchu, and survey including shovel-test pits and phosphate analyses. This initiative has begun to allow smaller stone sites and their outlying components, as well as the possible interactions between them, to emerge and be included in an understanding of the Great Zimbabwe tradition. (Less)
finds at archaeological excavations and it is used to answer research questions about chronology,... more finds at archaeological excavations and it is used to answer research questions about chronology, culture definition and migrations of people. In southern African Iron Age archaeology ethnographic models have been used in the interpretation of farming communities of the last 2000 years. However, in many ways archaeologists have failed to address the usage and sociological context of pottery and the use of typology in defining ceramic style and human group identities remains controversial. While acknowledging that archaeological pottery is a vital artifact and that its study leads towards the understanding of the people who made it, this perception is flawed because it unconsciously detaches the pottery from its social context. The limited typological approaches in most archaeological reports arise from the treatment of pottery as “text” that is as something that can be read and decoded for chronology and ethnic identity and the general construction of knowledge from ceramics, which deviate from cultural ‘reality.’ Why for example did hunter-gatherer lifestyles give way to farming communities, who preferred permanent settlements? In material culture terms, why do we experience a disappearance of the thickwalled, and lavishly deco-rated ceramics of the first millennium AD, to be replaced by simpler vessel forms, at a time when society is percei-ved to be more complex? A big challenge lies in the use of the “ethnographic present” in trying to understand Iron Age societies in southern Africa. Society is categorized as matrilineal and patrilineal on the basis of settlement layout and economy. What is also emerging is continuity in settlement and economic systems in some of the ceramic-defined cultures during the last 2000 years, but archaeologists have not satisfactorily accounted for the changes that might have occurred in the process. The aim of this project is to investiThick walled, decorated, Early Iron Age pottery
This paper discusses contextual aspects of pottery from the two early Neolithic Funnel Beaker (TR... more This paper discusses contextual aspects of pottery from the two early Neolithic Funnel Beaker (TRB) sites Resmo and Runsback, on the island of Oland, SE Sweden. The sites are situated 15km apart on the west side of the island and the C14 dates place the activities at the sites at c. 3900–3600BC and 3600–3100 BC respectively, possibly with some overlap. The pottery has been analysed regarding its design, raw material use, technology and vessel use. While overall similarities in the ceramic craft at the two sites are obvious, some articulated differences were noted in the design as well as in the wares, while vessel use patterns are strikingly similar between the two assemblages. The Resmo assemblage is characterised by an exceptional degree of homogeneity while the Runsback pottery displays more variation. The observed differences are viewed against the contexts in which the pottery was recovered, and the different patterns of pottery production and use are suggested to reflect diffe...
San Giovenale is a small inland Etruscan community approximately 60 km north of Rome. The site wa... more San Giovenale is a small inland Etruscan community approximately 60 km north of Rome. The site was excavated between 1956 and 1965 and the focus of the research has been aimed at the archaic period as well as the proto- Villanova period. The Late Etruscan period has up to now been more or less neglected. This resent work is to a large extent based on pottery and one cornerstone of the study is the belief that a majority of this Late Etruscan pottery is locally produced, not only the coarse ware but also the simpler tableware such as Late Creamware. One possible way to verify the hypotheses of a local production is by comparing the raw material components of the coarse ware and the tableware as well as clay deposits around the San Giovenale site. Very little of this kind of combined work between clay surveying, laboratory analyses of clays and pottery (thin-section analyses, thermal analyses, XRF-analyses, Carbon analyse and Mossbauerspectroscopy) and traditional studies of vessel shape, decoration and vessel function has previously been done on the small Etruscan inland settlements. (Less)
Present and past : ceramics and homesteads : an ethnoarchaeological project in the Buhera distric... more Present and past : ceramics and homesteads : an ethnoarchaeological project in the Buhera district, Zimbabwe
Perforated vessels in one form or the other are found in ceramic assemblages in most societies fr... more Perforated vessels in one form or the other are found in ceramic assemblages in most societies from early prehistoric time onwards. They vary greatly in shape and size, indicating a multitude of uses. This paper focuses on a particular type of perforated vessel – the perforated open cylinder, a “vessel” with no base, or rather with rims at both ends. This means that its function as a container is limited and it could only work when standing on a upright surface, e.g. on the ground. Another plausible function could be an extension “pipe”, for example, on a permanent furnace. In this paper we refer to experiments on the use of the perforated cylinder for heat-demanding crafts, more specifically what temperatures can be reached without using bellows – natural draught – in perforated cylinders of different size and shape, and which type of fuel is the most appropriate. (Less)
We report the first detailed chemical, microstructural and thermal analyses of a growing corpus o... more We report the first detailed chemical, microstructural and thermal analyses of a growing corpus of metallurgical tuyeres from the wider archaeological landscape of Great Zimbabwe in southern Africa ...
In the Grodinge project pottery was recovered from the five Neolithic sites, totaling c. 280 kg. ... more In the Grodinge project pottery was recovered from the five Neolithic sites, totaling c. 280 kg. A selected sample of pottery from four of these sites, i.e. the Eklundshov, Smallan, Kyrktorp and Kvedesta sites, has been studied more closely and also analysed technologically.
Most work on the Great Zimbabwe tradition has focused on Great Zimbabwe itself and its major succ... more Most work on the Great Zimbabwe tradition has focused on Great Zimbabwe itself and its major successor settlements. Smaller, contemporary stonewalled sites, some hundreds of kilometres from Great Zimbabwe, have been only mapped in most cases. Our goal has been to begin to explore both the homesteads within stone-enclosures at smaller Great Zimbabwe-tradition sites, and to seek out homesteads lying outside the small stone enclosures. In this paper I discuss ongoing excavations at two Great Zimbabwe-tradition sites, Kagumbudzi and Muchuchu, and survey including shovel-test pits and phosphate analyses. This initiative has begun to allow smaller stone sites and their outlying components, as well as the possible interactions between them, to emerge and be included in an understanding of the Great Zimbabwe tradition. (Less)
finds at archaeological excavations and it is used to answer research questions about chronology,... more finds at archaeological excavations and it is used to answer research questions about chronology, culture definition and migrations of people. In southern African Iron Age archaeology ethnographic models have been used in the interpretation of farming communities of the last 2000 years. However, in many ways archaeologists have failed to address the usage and sociological context of pottery and the use of typology in defining ceramic style and human group identities remains controversial. While acknowledging that archaeological pottery is a vital artifact and that its study leads towards the understanding of the people who made it, this perception is flawed because it unconsciously detaches the pottery from its social context. The limited typological approaches in most archaeological reports arise from the treatment of pottery as “text” that is as something that can be read and decoded for chronology and ethnic identity and the general construction of knowledge from ceramics, which deviate from cultural ‘reality.’ Why for example did hunter-gatherer lifestyles give way to farming communities, who preferred permanent settlements? In material culture terms, why do we experience a disappearance of the thickwalled, and lavishly deco-rated ceramics of the first millennium AD, to be replaced by simpler vessel forms, at a time when society is percei-ved to be more complex? A big challenge lies in the use of the “ethnographic present” in trying to understand Iron Age societies in southern Africa. Society is categorized as matrilineal and patrilineal on the basis of settlement layout and economy. What is also emerging is continuity in settlement and economic systems in some of the ceramic-defined cultures during the last 2000 years, but archaeologists have not satisfactorily accounted for the changes that might have occurred in the process. The aim of this project is to investiThick walled, decorated, Early Iron Age pottery
This paper discusses contextual aspects of pottery from the two early Neolithic Funnel Beaker (TR... more This paper discusses contextual aspects of pottery from the two early Neolithic Funnel Beaker (TRB) sites Resmo and Runsback, on the island of Oland, SE Sweden. The sites are situated 15km apart on the west side of the island and the C14 dates place the activities at the sites at c. 3900–3600BC and 3600–3100 BC respectively, possibly with some overlap. The pottery has been analysed regarding its design, raw material use, technology and vessel use. While overall similarities in the ceramic craft at the two sites are obvious, some articulated differences were noted in the design as well as in the wares, while vessel use patterns are strikingly similar between the two assemblages. The Resmo assemblage is characterised by an exceptional degree of homogeneity while the Runsback pottery displays more variation. The observed differences are viewed against the contexts in which the pottery was recovered, and the different patterns of pottery production and use are suggested to reflect diffe...
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Dear Collegues!
The Laboratory for Ceramic Research is ... more First letter of information
Dear Collegues!
The Laboratory for Ceramic Research is pleased to invite you to our International Conference on:
"Prehistoric Pottery around the Baltic"
The Conference will take place during three days in 7-9 March 2003.
The subject is Pottery studies around the Baltic Sea, Skagerack and Kattegat.
I you are interested in participate with an oral presentation or a poster, please email the title of your paper and an abstract (<300 words) before 15th of June 2012
The oral presentation shall take 20 minutes.
In your application please include following information:
1.1. Last name, first name
2.2. Institute
3.3. Academic title
4.4. Post adress and telephone
5.5. E-mail
6.6. Format of presentation
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Dear Collegues!
The Laboratory for Ceramic Research is pleased to invite you to our International Conference on:
"Prehistoric Pottery around the Baltic"
The Conference will take place during three days in 7-9 March 2003.
The subject is Pottery studies around the Baltic Sea, Skagerack and Kattegat.
I you are interested in participate with an oral presentation or a poster, please email the title of your paper and an abstract (<300 words) before 15th of June 2012
The oral presentation shall take 20 minutes.
In your application please include following information:
1.1. Last name, first name
2.2. Institute
3.3. Academic title
4.4. Post adress and telephone
5.5. E-mail
6.6. Format of presentation
Send to:
thomas.eriksson@geol.lu.se
anders.lindahl@geol.lu.se
Please pass on the invitation to other Archaeologists!
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