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Pottery to the people. The producttion, distribution and consumption of decorated pottery in the Greek world in the Archaic period (650-480 BC)
2002 •
Vladimir Stissi
BECAP22 Book of abstracts Pots as media: Decoration, technology, and message transmission
BECAP22 Book of abstracts Pots as media: Decoration, technology, and message transmission
BECAP Conference, Jasna Vukovic, Vesna Bikic
P. Kögler, Introduction: The Aim of the Conference, in: Sarah Japp - Patricia Kögler (eds.), TRADITIONS AND INNOVATIONS Tracking the Development of Pottery from the Late Classical to the Early Imperial Periods
Patricia Kögler
Col.Ant. Archaic and Classical Western Anatolia: New Perspectives in Ceramic Studies. Peeters
Grey or painted, it is the shape that matters (mobile potters and fashion trends in ceramics: a case study of the pottery koine of of the North-Eastern Aegean in the late 8th and 7th centuries BC)
2018 •
Petya Ilieva
Rivista di archeologia
Yu. Tsetlin. Main Principles of Ancient Pottery Decoration
2004 •
Группа "История керамики" / "History of ceramics" research group, Юрий Цетлин / Yuri B. Tsetlin
Abstract This article is devoted to some results of an application of the historical-and-cultural approach to an investigation of ancient pottery decoration. Three main questions are discussed in it: 1) the concept of "ornament" and its cultural content, 2) the main directions and stages of development of cultural traditions in pottery decoration, and 3) the use of pottery decoration as a source of information about ancient ethno-cultural history. Pottery decoration is considered here, from one point of view, as the result of a special system of notions on external view of vessels characterizing different groups of ancient population (the "outer" cultural sphere), and from another perspective, as a result of specific pottery decoration traditions (the "inner" cultural sphere). On the basis of the historical-and-cultural approach to the study of some cultural traditions of ancient pottery decoration from the Near East and Eastern Europe, the author concluded that the appearance of mixed cultural traditions in this field was a result of mixing processes between different cultural groups.
Tradition and innovation in the Bronze Age pottery of the Thessaloniki Toumba
2007 •
Stelios Andreou
The Apulo-Lucanian Hellenistic Ware. An entangled node between Aegean and Italic pottery productions
Carlo De Mitri
BECAP Pots as media: Decoration, technology, and message transmission Belgrade, May 12-13th 2022
Palaguta I.V. Prehistoric ornamentation: possible directions in research and aspects for interpretation as suggested by analysis of Tripolye-Cucuteni pottery // Sprawozdania Archeologiczne, 68, 2016. P. 65–80
Ilia Palaguta
The paper proposes an interpretation of ornamental patterns in Tripolye-Cucuteni pottery. In the past decades, abstract and geometric ornamental motifs have often been viewed quite subjectively as images of the ‘moonfaced Goddess’, the ‘world egg’, ‘shells’, etc. The meaning of the ornamentation has been reconstructed on the basis of various ethnographic analogies, usually rather distant from the material under study. Within the framework of the structural-semiotic approach, the ornamentation has been analysed as a sign system or proto-writing where each element or motif is supposed to have a particular meaning. However, careful study of the dynamics inherent in the development of ornamental patterns shows that such interpretation cannot really be substantiated. Most signs seem to have been elements of technical design. The patterns were mostly created by dividing ornamented areas and not by building whole sequences of signs as it is done in texts. What was meaningful was the ornament itself as an integrated whole, not its elements. Ethnographic evidence shows that interpretation of identical motifs may vary considerably even within the same society. This has been confirmed by the author’s study of variation in the Tripolye patterns, which seem to have no unambiguous meaning. The main areas of future research lie in paleo-ethnological and paleo-cultural studies, where ornamental patterns are regarded as specific markers which reflect changes in the ethnic composition and social structure of prehistoric communities, and which provide information about interactions between different human groups.
Mitja Guštin, Wolfgang David (eds.), The Clash of Cultures? The Celts and the Macedonian World, Manching: Kastner AG 2014, ISBN: 978-3-9812891-8-3, pg. 165-175
The origins of painted figurative and vegetal decoration on pottery
2014 •
Andreea Drăgan
Archaeological Textiles Review
Preserved in clay: Ornamentation of Late Neolithic ceramic funerary vessels
2023 •
Monika Kaczmarek
Knowledge about textile production in the Neolithic period is relatively poor throughout Europe. Due to the rarity of organic remains, textile imprints preserved on pottery or other fired clay artefacts are valuable sources. This paper presents the results of technical analyses and experimental research into textile impressions identified on funerary ceramics. The materials are 19 pots from archaeological sites from the Polish lowlands. Fragments are dated to the Late Neolithic period. The set of vessels analysed feature impressions of decorative textiles. These included impressions possibly made with textile constructions, but also the so-called “free-hand” cord impressions. Ornaments made using the latter method are in the majority.
