Local production and long-distance trade of Islamic glazed ceramics in Central Asia: A compositional analyses of ceramics from Southern Kazakhstan by NAA and LA-ICP-MS

Klesner, Catherine; MacDonald, Brandi L.; Dussubieux, Laure; Akymbek, Yeraly; Vandiver, Pamela B.

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101905

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“…11–12; Gradmann & Schüssler, 2015, p. 350; Holakooei et al, 2019, pp. 764–765; Klesner et al, 2019, pp. 12–13; Matin et al, 2020, p. 21; Simsek & Geckinli, 2012, p. 925; Tite, 2011, p. 337).…”

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A scientific study of late Islamic blue‐white stonepaste wares of Iran

Zhang

et al. 2022

Archaeometry

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Blue-white stonepaste wares were an outgrowth of the bursting innovations of Near Eastern potters striving to imitate Chinese products during the Islamic period. Building on the results of previous research, this paper seeks to increase our knowledge of this type of ceramics by analyzing 16 Qajar period samples from Tepe Naderi in North Khorasan Province, Iran, with stereo microscopy, Raman spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy. It appears that the bodies of these samples are characterized by high silicon and high alkali, a hallmark of the traditional Iranian stonepaste. They are coated with transparent alkali glazes and colored with the chromogenic elements of Cr, Co, Fe and Mn derived from chromite, hematite and cobalt ferrite, the latter of which is the decomposed phase of cobaltite ore known from Qamsar in Iran. The provenance of these samples cannot be probed at present, however, due to the lack of study of contemporaneous ceramics in the Near East. K E Y W O R D S blue-white glaze, cobalt blue, Iran, Qajar period, stonepaste body

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A scientific study of late Islamic blue‐white stonepaste wares of Iran

Zhang

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Archaeometry

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“…As Shenandoah Valley potters did not temper their vessels (see above), this gives NAA an advantage over LA-ICP-MS for sourcing vessels within the region. Additionally, LA-ICP-MS results have a larger margin of error due to the heterogeneous composition of clays, which can make it difficult to identify subtle differences within datasets (Klesner et al., 2019; Wallis and Kamenov, 2013). This does not prevent inter-regional studies (e.g., Bloch, 2015, 2016) or sourcing vessels within far-flung parts of a single region (e.g., Eckert and James, 2011; Monette et al., 2007), but when working within a 30-mile study area, as our project does, LA-ICP-MS data might not be able to identify slight differences in elemental signatures that would be readily apparent when using NAA.…”

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Which town did it come from?: Sourcing locally-made ceramics in the Mid-Atlantic

Greer

MacDonald

2020

North American Archaeologist

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Historical archaeologists working in the Middle Atlantic rarely use archaeometric techniques to source ceramics. Yet, there are several important research questions we can ask if we sourced more of our ceramics. This article presents the findings from a neutron activation analysis study that sourced 100 presumably locally-made vessels recovered from an early to mid-19th century enslaved quartering site in the northern Shenandoah Valley determined that 99 vessels were made in the region and were able to source 90% of the vessels to three towns in the region. Using these results, we argue that in the northern Shenandoah Valley it is not only possible to determine where consumers went to acquire locally-made ceramics, but that doing so lets us create histories of local ceramic industries that highlight consumer agency.

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“…Since 1995, novel methods in laboratory techniques that help determine the movement of ancient peoples or things, including ancient DNA, stable isotope analysis, and compositional characterization, have also become standard. Specifically, LA-ICPMS (laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry) (Bloch 2016, Gentelli 2019, Klesner et al 2019) and pXRF (portable X-ray fluorescence) (Craig 2021, Dussubieux & Walder 2015, Fischer & Hsieh 2017) have facilitated numerous studies that focus on characterizations within a particular region, where things that do not match are considered imports. In addition, studies of human migration mobility have proliferated with the development of stable isotope analysis and ancient DNA.…”

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The Work of Boundaries: Critical Cartographies and the Archaeological Record of the Relatively Recent Past

Hauser

2022

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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Discussions of boundaries have enjoyed a renaissance in anthropological archaeology of recent years, especially as conversations surrounding forced migration and border walls look toward the material record for clarification about what borders are and what they do. Since 1995, when the Annual Review of Anthropology last addressed a similar issue, numerous methodological and conceptual changes in the field have led to a large proliferation in the literature. A brief Google Scholar search of the words “archaeology,” “boundaries,” and “work” between 1995 and the present produces 365,000 results and makes one point clear: Archaeologists have had a lot to say about the topic. By framing this review around the work of boundaries, I signal two trends in the field of archaeology with conceptual and methodological implications. The first trend is the increased centrality of materiality as a theoretical register as new questions relating to object agency, human/nonhuman boundaries, and new models of environmental archaeology have populated the literature. In such climates it is important to focus on boundaries as a kind of assemblage of actants that takes on agencies beyond notions of territory. Associated border, crossing, transnational, and refuge assemblages are discussed. The second trend is the increased attention to boundary work in archaeology. Whether it is in the form of postcolonial/decolonizing archaeologies, new materialities/symmetrical archaeologies, or contemporary archaeologies, there has been increased pushback against attempts to define anthropological archaeology along processual lines. In this article I review one thread of that literature, critical cartographies, and how they have used the archaeological record to develop radical renditions of political space where boundaries are involved. I focus on scholarship surrounding the relatively recent past (ca. 1200 CE to the present). Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Anthropology Volume 51 is October 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Local production and long-distance trade of Islamic glazed ceramics in Central Asia: A compositional analyses of ceramics from Southern Kazakhstan by NAA and LA-ICP-MS

Cited by 6 publications

References 26 publications

A scientific study of late Islamic blue‐white stonepaste wares of Iran

A scientific study of late Islamic blue‐white stonepaste wares of Iran

Which town did it come from?: Sourcing locally-made ceramics in the Mid-Atlantic

The Work of Boundaries: Critical Cartographies and the Archaeological Record of the Relatively Recent Past

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