22. One Potter, Multiple Clay Body Types
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1. | Title | Title of document | 22. One Potter, Multiple Clay Body Types - Transitions, Urbanism, and Collapse in the Bronze Age |
2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Gloria London; Independent Scholar; |
3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Archaeology |
4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | Cyprus; Philippines; pottery; ethnoarchaeology; clay recipes; mining clay; water jugs; craft specialists; pitharial itinerant potters |
5. | Subject | Subject classification | Early Bronze Age; Southern Levant |
6. | Description | Abstract | Three studies of traditional craft specialists in Cyprus, the Philippines, and Cameroon, demonstrate that potters regularly work with clays derived from multiple sources. As a result, the jugs, jars, and cookware produced by an potter will vary depending on where s/he shaped the products. Potters intentionally mix clays to create a less porous clay body. For water jugs, the same potters create a more porous fabric by using one clay only. All of the wares examined here are destined for use by the local populace and do not reach tourist markets. The potters work in their courtyards, in a small factory-like setting, or as itinerants. They shape utilitarian round bottomed pots from whatever clay is available. The archaeological implications concern: sources of variation of the work of craft specialists and within contemporaneous assemblages of ancient ceramics. |
7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
8. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 08-Nov-2021 |
10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
11. | Type | Type | |
12. | Format | File format | |
13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/37743 |
14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.37743 |
15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; Transitions, Urbanism, and Collapse in the Bronze Age |
16. | Language | English=en | en |
18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
Levant, late 4th to early 2nd millennia BCE |
19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |