The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Ceramic Analysis

Abstract

The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Ceramic Analysis draws together topics and methodologies essential for the socio-cultural, mineralogical, and geochemical analysis of archaeological ceramic. Ceramic is one of the most complex and ubiquitous archaeomaterials in the archaeological record: it occurs around the world and through time in almost every culture and context, from building materials and technological installations to utilitarian wares and votive figurines. For more than 100 years, archaeologists have used ceramic analysis to answer complex questions about economy, subsistence, technological innovation, social organization, and dating. The volume is structured around the themes “Research design and data analysis,” “Foundational concepts,” “Evaluating ceramic provenance,” “Investigating ceramic manufacture,” “Assessing vessel function,” and “Dating ceramic assemblages.” It provides a common vocabulary and offers practical tools and guidelines for ceramic analysis using techniques and methodologies ranging from network analysis and typology to rehydroxylation dating and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Each chapter provides the theoretical background and practical guidelines, such as cost and destructiveness of analysis, for each technique, as well as detailed case studies illustrating the application and interpretation of analytical data for answering anthropological questions.

An environmentally friendly process for preparing commercial ceramic foam composites based on frit/glass wastes

“…Al 2 O 3 provides chemical resistance and sintering stability. 26 When the surface wear was analyzed, it was detected in line with results that waste glass-reinforced foams are corroded more easily compared to the waste frit-reinforced foams.…”

“…K 2 O is the most effective oxide. 26 The interaction of alkali oxides with each other causes various effects in the development of the body. As is seen in the graph, Na 2 O, and CaO coexistence compared to the standard in the waste-reinforced products strengthen the Si-O-Si bonds due to the effective polarization of oxygen atoms and strain the bond structure.…”

Deposition of graded SiO2/SiC coatings using high-velocity solution plasma spray

“…SiC formation is associated with the partial reduction of silica; as the area of the main peak of SiO (c) decreases, that of SiC (a) increases. Because the relative intensities or relative integrated areas of the absorbance peaks in curve-fitted FTIR spectra are proportional to the concentrations of given materials [42], the increase in SiC formation can be determined by the proportion of the areas of the main absorption peaks of SiO (c) and SiC (a) using Eq. (1):…”

Techniques for the Extraction of Vibrational Signature: A New Method of Pottery Shard Identification

“…Pottery shard identification has thus become an im-portant discipline in the field of Archaeology. Archaeologists have traditionally relied on color, surface texture, density, thickness, curvature, material, and shape to identify pottery shards (Historical Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, 2018;Hunt, 2017). This method of pottery shard ientification requires years of training, and disagreements among experts are not unusual.…”