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Pottery in Archaeology
by Clive Orton, Paul Tyers and Alan Vince
Pottery is often the most common find on a site, and can provide the archaeologist with information on many aspects of the past, including chronology, trade, and technology. Scientific developments and statistical techniques have contributed still further to the analysis of pottery in recent years. Divided into three parts (history and potential; a guide to pottery processing and recording; themes in ceramic studies) this book details the routine ...
Paperback. Price GB £33.00

A Manual of Egyptian Pottery, Volume 2: Naqada III - Middle Kingdom
by Anna Wodzinska
These are the first two volumes in a four-book set covering all Egyptian pottery, ranging from the earliest (Fayum A) ceramics to modern pottery made in Egypt today, organized by historical periods. The manuals are quick identification guides as well as starting points for more extensive research. For each period, ceramic types are illustrated with a line drawing, accompanied by a description that includes information on the pot's material, ...
Spiralbound. Price GB £28.00

The Historical Archaeology of the Sheffield Cutlery and Tableware Industry 1750-1900
edited by James Symonds
For more than 250 years the name Sheffield was synonymous with the cutlery industry, although archaeological evidence shows that the industry goes back as far as the 12th century. With many of the buildings rapidly disappearing or being redeveloped, aside from those that have already been destroyed, this type of publication forms a vital record of an important part of industrial England. The contributors to this volume look at the development of ...
Paperback. Price GB £30.00

Tiryns XV: Die handgemachte geglättete Keramik mykenischer Zeitstellung
by Klaus Kilian, revised by Tobias Muehlen-Bruch, edited by Joseph Maran
The volume Tiryns XV is dedicated to the publication and analysis of Late Mycenaean Handmade Burnished Ware from the excavations between 1976 and 1983 in the Lower Citadel of Tiryns. Based on the hitherto largest complex of this kind of pottery from Greece, the excavator, Klaus Kilian, presents novel insights into the range of shapes and decoration techniques as well as into the changes that can be observed over time. The comprehensive discussion ...
Hardback. Price GB £34.00

Byzantine To Modern Pottery In The Aegean: An Introduction and Field Guide
by Joanita Vroom
Byzantine To Modern Pottery In The Aegean An Introduction and Field Guide
Paperback. Price GB £70.00

After Antiquity: Ceramics and Society in the Aegean From the 7th to the 20th Century A.C: A Case Study from Boeotia, Central Greece
by Joanita Vroom
This richly illustrated study offers a comprehensive discussion of medieval and post-medieval pottery from central Greece and the Aegean, and considers the relationship between pottery and Mediterranean society, economy and culture in the post-Roman periods. The main part of the book focuses on pottery from Boeotia, particularly ceramics collected by the Cambridge and Bradford Boeotia intensive survey project. Vroom combines ceramic data from ...
Paperback. Price GB £35.00

African Pottery Roulettes Past and Present: Techniques, Identification, and Distribution
edited by A. Haour, K. Manning, N. Arazi, O. Gosselain, S. Guèye, D. Keita, A. Livingstone Smith, K. MacDonald, A. Mayor, S. McIntosh and R. Vernet
African Pottery Roulettes Past and Present considers ethnographic, museological and archaeological approaches to pottery-decorating tools called roulettes, that is to say, short lengths of fibre or wood that are rolled over the surface of a vessel for decoration.

This book sets out, for the first time, a solid typology for the classification of African pottery decorated with such tools, and forges a consensus on common methodology ...
Paperback. Price GB £25.00

Beyond the Ubaid: Transformation and Integration in the Late Prehistoric Societies of the Middle East
edited by Robert A. Carter and Graham Philip
Originally coined to signify a style of pottery in southern Iraq, and by extension an associated people and a chronological period, the term "Ubaid" is now often used loosely to denote a vast Near Eastern interaction zone, characterized by similarities in material culture, particularly ceramic styles, which existed during the sixth and fifth millennia B.C. This zone extended over 2,000 km from the shores of the Mediterranean to the Straits of ...
Paperback. Price GB £31.00

Crete in Transition: Pottery Styles and Island History in the Archaic and Classical Periods
by Brice L. Erickson
This work presents a classification system and absolute chronology for black-gloss wares from Crete, establishing the first local and regional ceramic sequences during the period from 600 to 400 B.C. This new chronological foundation of datable pottery from excavated sites fills in the so-called 6th/5th-century gap and dispels the prevailing view that this was a period of decline in population and one of artistic and cultural impoverishment. The ...
Paperback. Price GB £45.00

A Dated Type Series of London Medieval Pottery: Part 5, Shelly-Sandy Ware and the Greyware Industries
by Lyn Blackmore and Jacqueline Pearce
^BA Dated Type Series of London Medieval Pottery: Part 5, Shelly-Sandy Ware and the Greyware Industries by Lyn Blackmore and Jacqueline Pearce An essential survey for all interested in the pottery of the London area, this study charts the development, peak and decline of two ceramic traditions: the shelly wares of c 11401220 and the greywares of c 11701350. While mainly in the form of unglazed and utilitarian pottery, both types were highly ...
Hardback. Price GB £27.00