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Ceramics and Sherds

Ceramics and Sherds. Kimberley Connors www.archeducation.org. Archaeology. Material Culture Data Recording Field Methodology Chemical analysis Specialization Experimental. Artifacts – Ceramic Pottery. Clay deposits 10,000 years ago Artifact Most frequently found

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Ceramics and Sherds

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  1. Ceramics and Sherds Kimberley Connors www.archeducation.org

  2. Archaeology • Material Culture • Data Recording • Field Methodology • Chemical analysis • Specialization • Experimental

  3. Artifacts – Ceramic Pottery • Clay deposits • 10,000 years ago • Artifact Most frequently found • Skeumorph – mimics original material • Different vessels for different purposes • Firing: baking pottery in a kiln • Kiln: oven where pottery is baked at very high temps

  4. Ceramics at work

  5. Pithoi Amphora Amphoriskos Krater Jugs Juglets Lamps Etc. Shapes & Whole Vessels

  6. Amphora The amphora was a two-handled vase used for storage and transport. Krater The word krater means "mixing-bowl," and the vase was used for mixing wine with water. Kylix This drinking-cup is sometimes called the "symposium-vase," since it appears often in vase-representations of symposia Kantharos This type of drinking-cup is often seen held by Dionysus in representations on vases. Pithoi Large Storage vessel

  7. What were these pots used for?

  8. Sherds • Sherds vs. Shards • Diagnostics: sherds used for analysis • Typologies: How was it made and what was it used for? (Shapes Decorations Fabric) • Chronology: When was it made? • Petrography: Where was it made?

  9. Ceramics • Only the diagnostics pieces are keep • First washed and left to dry. • Keep in separate bags corresponding to a specific square and locus on a site • Separate wares: fine ware vs. course ware • Typed as to piece: rim, base, collar, etc. • Reconstruct the diagnostics pieces.

  10. Handles Rims Collars Bases Body Potter’s marks Uruk Period Diagnostics

  11. Sherd Count • Handles • Rims • Collars • Bases • Body

  12. Ceramics: The technical term for true pottery 10k years old. Pottery as pots • Pottery: Mixture of clay, water and a temper • Skeuomorph: A thing that mimics another in clay • Sherds Broken pottery pieces • Reconstruct • Technological and compositional studies • Functional analyses • Classifications or Typologies • Intuitive: one person, one site or collection - morphological • Type-variety: the diagnostics (fabric, decoration, or surface) in a certain area • Quantitative : patterned correlations of dimensional measurements max diam., total height, , etc, see Cesnola web site • Physical properties • Levigated (inclusions), • Petrographic slides hardness, texture, fabric, luster, porosity, carrying capacity, • Treatment, decoration and surface • Surface, finish or decoration – burnished, incised, combed, color

  13. We have 16 in our 8th grade and 13 in our > 7th grade. The 7th grade studies: pre history, the Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Harappans, Phoenicians, two ancient Chinese cultures, Hebrews, Olmecs, Maya, and Aztecs. They should be into Mesopotamia by the time you see them. 8th graders study by heart, but I can tell you they study: the Greeks, Islamic culture. Basically, I take the students from pre-history up to the Greeks (I often start Greece) and the 8th grade teachers take the students from the Greeks to the Renaissance.

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