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Illuminating Vestige: Amateur Archaeology and the Emergence of Historical Consciousness in Rural France [PDF]
This article provides a historical ethnography of an abrupt and transient awakening of interest in Roman vestige during the 1970s in rural France, and explores its implications for comparative understanding of historical consciousness in Western Europe ...
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Yes An interim report on pottery recovered during underwater surveys undertaken around a series of artificial islets on the islands of North and South Uist in 2022.
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ABSTRACT The site of Dadan, in the al‐ʿUlā valley, is one of the major and longest‐settled ancient oasis settlements in northwest Arabia. As part of the Saudi‐French Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/RCU/AFALULA), a study of its pre‐Islamic ceramic assemblage has been underway since 2020.
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One of my life’s most poignant moments came during my first lesson at the potter’s wheel. I’ll never forget how my teacher laid his hands over mine and helped direct the pressure needed to guide the clay into center.
Terry, Mark
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Amphora Production in the Roman World: A View from the Papyri [PDF]
Survey of the papyrological evidence for the various stages of the pottery production process in Graeco-Roman Egypt with a focus on wine amphorae.
Gallimore, Scott
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Estakhr Project - Third preliminary report of the joint Mission of the Iranian center for archaeological research, the Parsa-Pasargadae research foundation and the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy [PDF]
This report presents the preliminary results of the study of the pottery collected during the excavation campaign carried out in 2012 in the framework of the joint Iranian-Italian Archaeological Mission in Estakhr. The ceramic finds relate to a time span
Agnese, Fusaro+5 more
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Pottery Making in the First Oases: Comparison Between Bat and Bisya Domestic and Tower Assemblages
ABSTRACT The earliest known significant pottery production in Oman appears in the first oases of the Hajar mountains southern foothills during the Umm an‐Nar period (ca. 2700–2000 bc) of the third millennium bc. Despite the history of ceramic research in southeast Arabia, the modalities of the establishment and organisation of this craft are little ...
Jennifer Swerida, Mathilde Jean
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Mixture model of pottery distributions from Lake Chad Basin archaeological sites reveals ancient segregation patterns [PDF]
We present a new statistical approach to analyzing an extremely common archaeological data type -- potsherds -- that infers the structure of cultural relationships across a set of excavations. This method, applied to data from a set of complex, culturally heterogeneous sites around the Mandara mountains in the Lake Chad Basin, articulates currently ...
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