Pottery making in upper Egypt

An ethnoarchaeological study

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ID3918996
AutoresPaul T Nicholson (0000-0001-5472-6788, University of Sheffield), Paul Nicholson, Helen Patterson, H D Patterson (University of Sheffield)
Ano1985
Volume17
Fascículo2
Páginas222-239
Data de publicação1985-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoWorld Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00438243.1985.9979964
OpenAlexW2022700629
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas25
Referências citadas3

Despite the enormous importance of pottery to the archaeologist, detailed ethnoarchaeological studies of pottery production are rare, and tend to concentrate on the most primitive forms of pottery production. The study of the potteries and clay mines at Deir el‐Gharbi, Upper Egypt was undertaken with this in mind. The potteries are of a type defined by David Peacock as a ‘rural nucleated pottery industry’, they produce large amphora‐like vessels which are distributed throughout Egypt. The study revealed much about the technology of clay extraction and pottery production, as well as something of their organization. More significantly, it shed some new light on how such industries might or might not be reflected in the archaeological record. A study of the vessels themselves revealed several points of interest for the study of wheel‐turned ceramic assemblages generally

Amphora · Ancient history · Archaeology · Ethnoarchaeology · Geography · JAR · Pottery · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Engineering · History