Ceramic lifestyles Flashcards
Ceramic lifestyles
Procurement, clay preparation, fashioning, decorating, firing
Ceramic production techniques
Coiling, Molding, Throwing a wheel
Coiling is the _____ forming technique
Primary
Coiling involves what actions
rolling out the clay into a long thin sausage like for that is round
Decoration
Slip, Paint, Glaze, Cutting, Brushing/polishing
Firing strategies
Pit firing, bonfire, kiln
Ceramic analysis
Stylistic attributes (decoration), form attributes (geometric shape), technological attributes (composition, manufacturing, techniques, use/function)
Ceramic composition
Clay, minerals, trace elements
Ceramics analysis of fabric/paste mix
Petrography, xeroradiography, chemical analysis
Petrography
structure, mineral composition (temper and soil used) can tell us what place provided them their clay
temper
material added to clay to provide strength and improve the firing process - allowing you to shape it more easily
ceramics use two methods
thin sectioning and thick sectioning
thin sectioning
inside the fabric of ceramic
thick sectioning
more details, smaller aspects
difference is from the scale
Xeroradiography and chemical composition
xeroradiography
used to study fingerprints - can tell us many things (sex, left or right handed) tries to understand if the potter was men or women
Trends in ceramic productions
Composition, production, rate of production, form variation, decoration
composition
coarse of fine material
coarse has thick walls to store material - used for cooking
when you have guests you use the fine ceramics you have - for serving food or display
production
well fired
hand made/wheel made
rate of production
local - just household use
mass production - industrial workshop, producing different shapes or potteries
Form variation
different groups have different forms and different intentions and functions
decoration
getting bigger and better through time
ceramic quantifications
weight
total number of fragments
number of intact containers or estimate vessel equivalents (EVE)
The number of rims with the consideration of their proportion from the entire circle of the rim of a complete vessel (rim-EVE)
Rim provides us
the entire shape of the vessel
