Discriminating pottery production by image analysis: a case study of Mesolithic and Neolithic pottery from Al Khiday (Khartoum, Sudan)

Sasso, Gregorio Dal; Maritan, Lara; Salvatori, Sandro; Mazzoli, Claudio; Artioli, Gilberto

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2014.03.004

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“…The DIA was carried out adapting the procedure proposed by Dal Sasso et al . () for the study of pottery. Pores were segmented on the basis of their grey tones.…”

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Textural Changes in Speleothem Inclusions during Firing: A Useful Tool to Estimate Temperature in Speleothem‐Bearing Pottery

2016

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Speleothem inclusions have been identified in a ceramic class, ‘flared rim and flat lip’ pottery, that is widespread in the Friuli – Venetia Giulia and Veneto regions (north-eastern Italy) between the Final Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age. Textural analysis of speleothem inclusions revealed small rounded pores occurring along annual growth laminae, interpreted as the result of partial calcite decomposition during firing. Their size, number and diffusion at increasing temperatures were monitored during a set of firing experiments following heating and cooling rates, soaking times and redox conditions typical of open-firing kilns. The textural features of the speleothem inclusions turned out to represent a powerful thermometric tool to precisely determine firing temperature which, in the case of the ‘flared rim and flat lip’ pottery studied here, reduced the thermal interval to a greater extent than that obtained from mineralogical associations

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“…The DIA was carried out adapting the procedure proposed by Dal Sasso et al . () for the study of pottery. Pores were segmented on the basis of their grey tones.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Textural Changes in Speleothem Inclusions during Firing: A Useful Tool to Estimate Temperature in Speleothem‐Bearing Pottery

2016

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“…Grain size distribution (GSD) was measured considering the minimum Feret (mF) value in millimetres for calculating the Krumbein phi scale (φ mF = −log 2 (mF)). This parameter in sedimentology is based on the effective diameter determining the grain size of a class obtained by sieving [33]. The circularity value (C = 4π (A/P 2 ), where A = area, P = perimeter) was considered as a shape descriptor [34,35].…”

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5th-Century BC Himera and the Campanian Connection: Petrographic and Archaeological Studies on Western Greek Amphorae from Poseidonia and Elea Unearthed in the Necropolis of Himera

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Within the frame of an in-depth study of the corpus of about 560 western Greek transport amphorae (6th–5th century BC) yielded from excavations at the necropolis of the Dorian-Chalcidian colony of Himera in North-western Sicily, one of the most interesting issues consists in the determination of their provenance. Based on archaeological considerations, nearly 100 items have been attributed to southern Campania, specifically to Poseidonia and Elea. The present paper proposes a detailed combined archaeological-archaeometric investigation of 16 samples discovered at Himera and one at Jerba (Tunisia), of presumed Campanian provenance, compared with 4 local reference samples from Poseidonia and 6 samples of western Greek amphorae found at Pithekoussai and Elea, attributed to Poseidonia by previous archaeometric analysis. All samples have been submitted to a macroscopic fabric examination according to the standard methods of FACEM (Fabrics of the Central Mediterranean) and to petrographic investigation (polarised light microscopy) and digital image analyses of microstructures. Our study points to a Campanian provenance of the investigated amphorae and their distinction in a large group from Poseidonia and a small group from Elea. The identification of a numerous assemblage of 5th century BC Poseidonian transport vessels at Himera substantially underlines an earlier hypothesis about its ‘Campanian connection’ and allows for the reconstruction of an important Tyrrhenian commercial axis.

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“…Velde y Druc 1999;Velde 2005;Sestier et al 2003;Reedy 2006Reedy , 2008Frahm et al 2008;Carpenito et al 2009;Livingood y Cordell 2009;Dal Sasso et al 2014;Reedy et al 2014;Sobott et al 2014), pero sólo se han realizado algunos escasos aportes desde nuestro país (Gallart y Mata 1999;Polvorinos 2001;Polvorinos et al 2002;Polvorinos et al 2003;Polvorinos et al 2005). Todos han demostrado sus ventajas al proporcionar de forma rápida y eficaz una descripción numérica completa referida, entre otros aspectos, al tamaño, la forma, el color y la posición de los objetos que se registran en la imagen.…”

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Caracterización textural con análisis de imagen: aplicación en cerámicas prehistóricas de Mallorca (1750-50 a.C.)

Santacreu

2017

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La caracterización de la textura de las pastas cerámicas resulta esencial para poder estudiar ciertas elecciones tecnológicas de los alfareros en el pasado. Este artículo aborda la importancia que tienen los análisis texturales en el estudio de la cerámica así como algunas de las técnicas y metodologías utilizadas para caracterizar la textura de las vasijas. Como estudio de caso se aporta la caracterización textural con análisis de imagen de 132 cerámicas de diversos yacimientos la Edad del Bronce y del Hierro de Mallorca. Gracias a la combinación de los resultados con diversos análisis estadísticos ha sido posible dividir el registro en grupos texturales relacionados con diversas elecciones tecnológicas. Un análisis diacrónico de estos grupos ha permitido conectarlos con cambios en las recetas y tradiciones tecnológicas a lo largo de la prehistoria balear.

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Discriminating pottery production by image analysis: a case study of Mesolithic and Neolithic pottery from Al Khiday (Khartoum, Sudan)

Cited by 45 publications

References 18 publications

Textural Changes in Speleothem Inclusions during Firing: A Useful Tool to Estimate Temperature in Speleothem‐Bearing Pottery

Textural Changes in Speleothem Inclusions during Firing: A Useful Tool to Estimate Temperature in Speleothem‐Bearing Pottery

5th-Century BC Himera and the Campanian Connection: Petrographic and Archaeological Studies on Western Greek Amphorae from Poseidonia and Elea Unearthed in the Necropolis of Himera

Caracterización textural con análisis de imagen: aplicación en cerámicas prehistóricas de Mallorca (1750-50 a.C.)

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