Ceramics and change. An overview of pottery production
(2010) In Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 2(3). p.133-149- Abstract
- In southern African Iron Age studies, there are few attempts to systematically apply and
include laboratory analyses when studying archaeological ceramic materials. As demonstrated in this
paper, such analyses help to understand technological aspects such as raw materials, manufacturing
techniques and vessel function. Combined with vessel shape and decoration as well as ethnographic
studies the results provide new ways to understand local and regional distribution networks of the
ceramics craft. Furthermore, laboratory analyses are most useful when studying continuity and
changes in the ceramics handicraft over time, which has implications both on cultural and social
change as... (More) - In southern African Iron Age studies, there are few attempts to systematically apply and
include laboratory analyses when studying archaeological ceramic materials. As demonstrated in this
paper, such analyses help to understand technological aspects such as raw materials, manufacturing
techniques and vessel function. Combined with vessel shape and decoration as well as ethnographic
studies the results provide new ways to understand local and regional distribution networks of the
ceramics craft. Furthermore, laboratory analyses are most useful when studying continuity and
changes in the ceramics handicraft over time, which has implications both on cultural and social
change as seen in the shift in ceramic production techniques. We use examples from Zimbabwe and
South Africa to illustrate these changes, and discuss them in a broader social and technological context
in Iron Age southern Africa. (Less)
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- Lindahl, Anders LU and Pikirayi, Innocent
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- 2010
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- Contribution to journal
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- subject
- keywords
- pottery, ceramic technology, Iron Age southern Africa, simulated manufacture, forming techniques, change, ceramic thin section
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- Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
- volume
- 2
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 133 - 149
- publisher
- Springer
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- wos:000208772200001
- scopus:84873055939
- ISSN
- 1866-9565
- DOI
- 10.1007/s12520-010-0031-2
- project
- Ceramics and the Ethnographic Present
- language
- English
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- yes
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abstract = {{In southern African Iron Age studies, there are few attempts to systematically apply and<br/><br>
include laboratory analyses when studying archaeological ceramic materials. As demonstrated in this<br/><br>
paper, such analyses help to understand technological aspects such as raw materials, manufacturing<br/><br>
techniques and vessel function. Combined with vessel shape and decoration as well as ethnographic<br/><br>
studies the results provide new ways to understand local and regional distribution networks of the<br/><br>
ceramics craft. Furthermore, laboratory analyses are most useful when studying continuity and<br/><br>
changes in the ceramics handicraft over time, which has implications both on cultural and social<br/><br>
change as seen in the shift in ceramic production techniques. We use examples from Zimbabwe and<br/><br>
South Africa to illustrate these changes, and discuss them in a broader social and technological context<br/><br>
in Iron Age southern Africa.}},
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