Analysing Pottery. Processing – Classification – Publication.

Edited by Barbara Horejs, Reinhard Jung & Peter Pavúk

City: Bratislava

Year: 2010

Publisher: Comenius University

Description: Paperback, 326 p., 127 ill., 18 tables, 29,7x21 cm

Abstract

The volume bears witness to the variety of pottery survival: mostly large amounts from hundreds of contexts, often in a secondary or tertiary position, pottery from short-lived settlements or tell-settlements in use for millennia, plain or decorated pottery, handmade pottery or wheel-thrown mass products. The 16 papers of the book are classified by foreword, ware definitions, multivariate analyses, other statistics, and database systems. The presented examples are Early Medieval settlement pottery, ceramic from Troy, Turkey, pottery of the Moravian Bronze Age and of the Polish Bronze Age, Aegean pottery in the Mediterranean, ceramics from Phaistos and Ayia Triada of Middle Minoan III period, Hittite contexts from Kuşaklı and Boğazköy, Turkey, pottery from the Egyptian site of Tell el-Dabca/Avaris, cooking pottery in the Late Bronze Age Aegean, a Late Bronze Age burnt layer of the Apennine fortification walls at Roca, Italy, Latène pottery at Straubing-Bajuwarenstraße, Germany, Roman and Early Byzantine amphorae from the town of Sagalassos, Turkey, as well as Bronze Age pottery from Aegina Kolonna.

Contents

Preface

B. Horejs, R. Jung &  P. Pavúk, ‘Introductory Remarks, or What Should Be Done with a Pile of Sherds’ [9-14]

Ware Definitions

B. Horejs, ‘Possibilities and Limitations in Analysing Ceramic Wares’ [15-28]

L. Berger, ‘Zur Terminologie und Definition der Oberflächenbehandlung anhand gebrannter Gefäße in der prähistorischen Keramik forschung’ [29-40]

Multivariate Analysis

J. Macháček, ‘Zur Methode der Bearbeitung der (frühmittelalterlichen) Keramik aus Siedlungsarealen’ [41-72]

P. Pavúk, ‘Pottery Processing at Troy. Typology, Stratigraphy and Correspondence Analysis: How Do They Work Together?’ [73-98]

K. Šabatová, ‘Möglichkeiten der statistischen Methoden bei der Auswertung eines bronzezeitlichen Fundorts (Práslavice, Mähren, Tschechische Republik)’ [99-120]

J. Kneisel, H. Dibbern & S. Diers, ‘Ein Aufnahmesystem für bronzezeitliche Keramik’ [121-144]

Other Statistics

R. Jung, ‘Classification, Counting and Publication of Aegean-Type Pottery around the Mediterranean’ [145-162]

L. Girella, ‘The Gold of Rhadamanthus: Ceramic Deposits and Wares Distribution at Phaistos and Ayia Triada during Middle Minoan III Period’ [163-186]

D. P. Mielke, ‘Kusakli und Bogazköy (Türkei)-Zwei Ansätzezur Bearbeitung großer Keramik mengenaus hethitischen Kontexten’ [187-208]

B. Bader, ‘Processing and Analysis of Ceramic Finds at the Egyptian Site of Tell el-Daba/Avaris (“Eves” and Other Strange Animals)’ [209-234]

B. Lis, ‘Cooking Pottery in the Late Bronze Age Aegean – an Attempt at a Methodological Approach’ [235-244]

T. Scarano, ‘The Burnt Layer of the Apennine Fortification Walls of Roca (Lecce, Italy): the Typological Classification of Pottery Assemblages as an Instrument for Functional Characterisation of Archaeological Contexts’ [245-262]

C. Tappert, ‘Statistical Analysis and Historical Interpretation – La Tène Pottery from Straubing-Bajuwarenstraße, Lower Bavaria’ [263-284]

M. Corremans, J. Poblome, P. Bes & M. Waelkens, ‘The Quantification of Amphorae from Roman Sagalassos, Southwest Turkey’ [285-306]

Database Systems

W. Gauss, ‘Ägina Kolonna – Materialaufnahme, Dokumentation und Datenverwaltung’ [307-322]

List of Contributors [323]