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Funerary vs. domestic vessels from the Hallstatt period. A study on ceramic vases from the Milejowice settlement and the Domasław cemetery [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Clay vessels have a wide variety of functions in social activities in the Hallstatt period. In addition to food storage and processing, they were used for ritual purposes and as funerary vessels.
Joanna Sekulska-Nalewajko, Jarosław Gocławski   +1 more
exaly   +6 more sources

Fats, Fire and Bronze Age Funerary Rites: Organic Residue Analysis of Wide Horizontal Rim Vessels From Burial Contexts in Northwest Portugal

Archaeometry
ABSTRACT This study presents the first GC‐MS–based analyses of wide horizontal rim vessels with well‐defined funerary contexts, from Middle Bronze Age Portugal (Quinta do Amorim 2 and Pego). Organic residues from two vessels revealed ruminant fats and plant oils, alongside molecular markers of heat exposure.
João Vinícius Chiesa Back, Cesar Oliveira, Hugo Aluai Sampaio   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

Current Research: Recent Documentation of Ceramic Vessels and Other Funerary Objects in the Titus Phase Cemetery at the Tuck Carpenter Site, Camp County, Texas [PDF]

Index of Texas Archaeology Open Access Grey Literature From the Lone Star State, 2018
Recently, we had the opportunity to complete the documentation of Late Caddo period Titus phase ceramic vessels and other funerary offerings from the Tuck Carpenter site (41CP5) in the Big Cypress Creek basin in Camp County, Texas.
Middlebrook, Tom, Perttula, Timothy K., Stingley, Kevin, Walters, Mark   +3 more
exaly   +7 more sources

Unravelling the function of funerary pottery vessels of the 2nd-1st millennia BC in the Dailaman Province (Iran) through typology, petrography, and organic residue analyses [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Pottery vessels often comprise major burial goods at archaeological sites, thus providing valuable information for reconstructing past mortuary practices. However, because of the uncertainty of its function or use, which has been interpreted mostly through typological studies alone, the analytical potential of pottery as a burial good has not been ...
Emmanuelle Casanova, Takehiro Miki
exaly   +7 more sources

Coarse ware jugs in funerary context: technical and functional observations on the pottery from the cemeteries at Alburnus Maior [PDF]

Cercetări Arheologice, 2023
This study analyses a specific category of Roman ceramic vessels identified in the funerary inventories from Alburnus Maior: 26 coarse ware jugs present in the graves from the cemeteries at Tăul Corna, Tăul Găuri – Hop, Tăul Secuilor/Pârâul Porcului and ...
Silvia Mustață
doaj   +2 more sources

Pottery spilled the beans: Patterns in the processing and consumption of dietary lipids in Central Germany from the Early Neolithic to the Bronze Age. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
The need to better understand economic change and the social uses of long-ago established pottery types to prepare and consume food has led to the study of 124 distinct ceramic vessels from 17 settlement and funerary sites in Central Germany (present day
Adrià Breu, Roberto Risch, Elena Molina, Susanne Friederich, Harald Meller, Franziska Knoll   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Serving the living and the dead: An integrated approach to Copper Age ceramic production and cultural dynamics in Campania, Southern Italy. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
This study explores the contribution of large scale integrated pottery analysis to the definition of broader cultural processes and, more specifically, highlights for the first time changes in the role and demand for ceramic objects during the Copper Age
Maria De Falco, Kamal Badreshany, Paola Aurino, Pierfrancesco Talamo, Robin Skeates   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Céramique inédite d’époque punique de Moknine et de Smirat (Tunisie)

Antiquités Africaines, 2023
The Punic presence in Moknine and Smirat is attested exclusively by funerary remains. Rescue excavations between 1987 and 2001 led to the recovery of 38 ceramic vessels in two hypogeum tombs at Moknine and three at Smirat.
Yamen Sghaïer
doaj   +1 more source

The funerary practices from the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age in the south-west of Romania and the relations with the south of Danube

Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies, 2022
The socio-anthropological approach to the funerary practices proves a tight connection between the religious beliefs and the funerary practices. However, it is hard to be evidenced only through the funerary discoveries most of the time.
Simona Lazăr
doaj   +1 more source

Opium trade and use during the Late Bronze Age: Organic residue analysis of ceramic vessels from the burials of Tel Yehud, Israel

Archaeometry, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract Organic residue analysis was conducted on various vessels from burials at Tel Yehud, Israel. The analyses led to new reliable evidence for the presence of opioid alkaloids and their decomposition products. This research revitalizes a decades‐old discussion on the presence and function of the opium trade across a cultural region of utmost ...
Vanessa Linares, Eriola Jakoel, Ron Be’eri, Oded Lipschits, Ronny Neumann, Yuval Gadot   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source