Pottery production at the Miaodigou site in central China: Archaeological and archaeometric evidence

Li, Tao; Li, Pengfei; Song, Haichao; Xie, Zhizhong; Fan, Wenquan; Lü, Qin-Qin

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103301

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“…The use of red ochre (hematite) as a pigment is an ancient technique, dating back to the palaeolithic era [ 20 ]. It was widely used across an array of different kinds of cultural relics, including rock paintings [ 20 ], painted pottery [ 21 ] and polychrome clay sculptures [ 17 ] from different periods.…”

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A Multi-Analytical Approach to Investigate the Polychrome Clay Sculpture in Qinglian Temple of Jincheng, China

Shen

Zhang

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This article presents an integrated analytical method to investigate the polychrome clay sculptures of the Qinglian Temple in Jincheng City, Shanxi Province, China. Digital microscopy, SEM-EDS, XRD, Herzberg stain, Micro-Raman spectroscopy and FT-IR were selected to identify the raw materials and techniques used to produce the ground clay layer, the white powder layer and the mineral pigment of the polychrome clay sculptures. The investigation shows that the clay used to make the coarse and fine clay layer is consistent. However, different kinds of fibres were found mixed in the coarse and fine clay layers: wheat straw was the main fibre used in coarse clay layer, while the bast fibres, including ramie, kenaf and sisal hemp, were used as the fibre supports in the fine clay layers due to their useful properties. The white powder layer was made of a mixture of kaolinite and gypsum. For the mineral pigments, it principally contained red (hematite, minium or a mixture of minium and cinnabar), green (atacamite and atacamite), blue (azurite), yellow (yellow ochre), black (amorphous carbon) and white (the mixture of kaolinite and gypsum). Additionally, a gilding technique and multiple paint layers also typified many pigment areas. This work has furthered understanding of the materials and techniques used in making the sculptures of the Qinglian Temple and has clear implications for the restoration and conservation treatments on these kinds of ancient painted clay sculptures.

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A Multi-Analytical Approach to Investigate the Polychrome Clay Sculpture in Qinglian Temple of Jincheng, China

Shen

Zhang

et al. 2022

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“…According to historical records, in the development of ancient pottery, the ancients had an in-depth study of the materials, proportions, fire, and pottery art. The study of pottery in ancient times was a knowledge covering analytical chemistry, literature, art and art, sculpture, handicraft, and so on [ 1 , 2 ]. Ancient potters had a different understanding of pottery materials, and different dynasties used different mainstream pottery materials, which confirms the different traditional cultures of each dynasty.…”

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Mask R-CNN-Oriented Pottery Display and Identification System

Wei

2022

Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience

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Traditional pottery identification methods are time consuming and costly. In order to cater to more pottery industry needs, we propose a Mask R-CNN-based pottery identification method to build an automatic pottery identification system. We first improve the loss function of Mask R-CNN by using generalized intersection over union loss function, through the pattern of migration learning, to compensate for the disadvantage of a small collective amount of pottery data. For different types of pottery, we use the mask algorithm to enhance the features of the outer contour of the pottery. In addition, we use the minimum external matrix algorithm to accurately extract the outer contour bit pose features of pottery to improve the model’s accuracy in recognizing the outer contour of pottery. To meet the testing conditions of pottery, with the support of potters and archaeologists, we make our pottery data set according to pottery categories. The experimental results prove that our method performs best in the comprehensive recognition accuracy of pottery, with the recognition accuracy above 90%. The recognition accuracy is also the best in pottery color decoration and grain decoration, and the grain recognition accuracy stays above 87%, which is better than other pottery recognition methods.

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“…Multiple evidences indicated that the humans engaged in the diversi ed subsistence strategies in Guanzhong area during the Late Neolithic period, which were dominated by the mixed agricultures (mainly consist of millet, rice and wheat) and animal husbandry supplemented with the gathering and hunting (ZAT 2004 . Meanwhile, a large quantity of pottery vessels with various forms were discovered in this area, suggesting that a center of pottery production and the utilized pottery assemblage could have been established (Shelach-Lavi and Tu 2017; Li et al 2022). Previous researches of the food processing were mainly focused on the alcohol fermentation techniques with the diverse materials and specialized potteries for exploring the agricultural subsistence, feasting activities and social complexity during the Neolithic period (Wang et al 2016;Liu et al 2018bLiu et al , 2019a.…”

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Food, Cooking and Potteries: A Preliminary Study on the Social Developments of the Neolithic Mijiaya Site in Guanzhong Area, China

Zhu

Yang

et al. 2022

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The origins of agriculture and pottery were generally believed to contribute to the changes of human food resources and the innovations of cooking technologies in the Neolithic China. Hence, the investigations of the co-evolutions in human food resources, cooking technologies and pottery functions will provide a new perspective for understanding the ancient social developments. Here, taking the Mijiaya site as an example, we present the multiple analyses on the plant microfossils of pottery remains, the AMS 14C dating and isotopes of animal bones, and the types and textures of potteries in comparison with those from some surrounding sites in northern China during the Late Neolithic period. The results indicate that the diets of Mijiaya peoples (ca. 3093‒1961 cal BC) were heavily reliant on the diversified crops and livestock supplemented with some gathering plants and hunting animals; meanwhile, Mijiaya peoples used a variety of ways to refine the pottery functions for the complex food processing. Moreover, the food processing also potentially promoted the development in animal husbandry, basing on their feeding strategy and eating patterns. These preliminarily suggest that the coordinated development in the food, cooking and potteries had contributed to the social complexity in the Late Neolithic China.

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Pottery production at the Miaodigou site in central China: Archaeological and archaeometric evidence

Cited by 6 publications

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A Multi-Analytical Approach to Investigate the Polychrome Clay Sculpture in Qinglian Temple of Jincheng, China

A Multi-Analytical Approach to Investigate the Polychrome Clay Sculpture in Qinglian Temple of Jincheng, China

Mask R-CNN-Oriented Pottery Display and Identification System

Food, Cooking and Potteries: A Preliminary Study on the Social Developments of the Neolithic Mijiaya Site in Guanzhong Area, China

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