Patrick Quinn
Biographic Data
| ID | 135813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Quinn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Quinn |
| SIGNATURE | QUINN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8911-6349 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 199 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Investigating local identity and regional connections in the Halaf, Ubaid, and Late Chalcolithic periods of Tell Arpachiyah, Iraq: Evidence from fine ware and utilitarian pottery
Tracing glazed ware production in Islamic Sicily: Macroscopic, petrographic, and geochemical evidence
This study presents the first large-scale integrated archaeometric investigation of the fabrics of Islamic-period glazed wares produced and consumed in Sicily between the late 9th and 12th centuries. Through the integration of macroscopic analysis, thin-section petrography, and geochemistry, this study refines the characterisation of Sicilian glazed ware fabrics and strengthens their distinction from ceramics produced in Ifriqiya. A total of 188 …
Virtual or in-person? a census of residency interview formats for match 2025
Introduction Since the Match was established in 1952, residency interviews in the United States were conducted in person. This abruptly changed in May 2020, when the Coalition for Physician Accountability mandated that programs conduct interviews virtually for the 2020–2021 application season. While the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) recommended virtual interviews in 2024, it is not known whether residency programs conducted virt…
Exploring local and regional dynamics in the Bronze Age Kythera Island, Greece, through an analytical approach on archaeological data from Kataphygadi cave
Evidence that beekeeping and Beeswax by-products are present in the Island of Kythera since the 3rd millenia BCE. • Evidence of the importance of beeswax related products for cults and mortuary practices. • Evidence of continuous production of local pottery in Kythera throughout the Bronze Age. • Strontium and Oxygen data from Bronze Age skeletal remains from Kataphygadi cave. Interactions between islands and mainland has long been the subject of…
Scientific analysis reveals the technological choice of pottery production in southwestern Shandong province from late Neolithic (c.2300-1800 BCE) to early Bronze Age (c.1750-1450 BCE)
Late antique African Painted Wares (APW): Tracing local production in North Africa
The production and circulation of common wares during the late antique period in North Africa has been largely overlooked by past scholarship, despite their potential to shed light on late antique production, workshop organisation and regional ceramic economies. This paper provides the first detailed study of a distinctive type of late antique, wheelmade common ware, the so-called African ‘painted ware’ (APW). It first presents a critical overvie…
Ceramic paste variation within medieval ceramics from the Lalibela region of Ethiopia and its potential cultural meaning
Unearthing meaning within stylistically homogeneous ceramics: A study from Ntuusi, western Uganda
Ceramic manufacturing traditions and sources from the multi-period agro-pastoral cemetery of Jebel Moya, Sudan
Kairouan and the medieval ceramic industry in Tunisia: New data from compositional analysis of glazed and unglazed wares from the sites of Bulla Regia and Chimtou
Early Islanders: Neolithic pottery from Soline, island of Korčula (Croatia)
Reconstructing production of Hellenistic pottery and maritime trade routes: Insights from a Hellenistic shipwreck near Žirje, Croatia
Crafting excellence: Reconstructing the mould technology of Shang period bronze ritual vessels at Anyang, China
Identifying the Ceramics of Multiethnic Communities in Lowland South America: Reconstructing Technical Traditions in the Precolonial Middle Orinoco River Region (1000-1500 CE)
This study investigates technical traditions of pottery production at two archaeological sites, Picure (ca. 310–1480 CE) and Rabo de Cochino (ca. 100 BCE–1440 CE), in the Middle Orinoco River region near the Colombia–Venezuela border. The chaînes opératoires of multiple technical traditions are reconstructed. Petrographic, geochemical, and macrotrace analyses distinguish local from non-local production and identify hybridized technical traditions…
South of the Empire: Inka-Style Pottery Production in Relation to Local Pottery Traditions in the Upper-Middle Basin of the Aconcagua Valley (Central Chile)
The technology of polychrome glazed ceramics in Ifriqiya: New data from the site of Chimtou
Ifriqiya (roughly Tunisia and eastern Algeria) is believed to have played a significant role in the diffusion of ceramic glazed technologies into other regions of the Western Mediterranean. However, due to limited analysis on North African glazed ceramics, its role in technology transfer remains poorly understood. This paper uses SEM–EDS and petrographic analyses to understand the technology employed in the production of Tunisian ceramics through…
A compositional and technological reassessment of the function of potters’ marks on Early Bronze Age sherds from Tell el-‘Abd, Syria
A highly distinctive feature of the Early Bronze Age ceramic assemblage of the site of Tell el-‘Abd in northern Syria is the presence of large numbers of pots that were incised with a diverse range of symbols prior to firing. Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain the function of such ceramic “potters’ marks”. One is that they functioned as a signature or trademark used by potters or workshops to identify their work. Another possibility…
Production and Use of Ceramics in the First Millennium BC: Jebel Moya, Sudan
The site of Jebel Moya, situated in the center of the southern Gezira Plain in southcentral Sudan, has an occupational sequence spanning at least five millennia until around 2000 years ago. Renewed excavation is shedding new light on its occupational chronology and socioeconomic history, including activities such as burial, savanna herding, and domesticated sorghum cultivation practices dating to at least the mid-third millennium BC. In the prese…
Tea for Two: The Dual Modes of Contemporary Zisha Teaware Production and their Implications for Archaeological Research
In archaeology, ceramics receive much attention because they are abundant in many archaeological contexts, chronologically sensitive, and provide a good window into past human behaviors, in particular decision-making in ceramic production which reflects past communities of practice and individual actions. While most studies tend to rely heavily on differences in object shape and style to distinguish between different periods and cultural contexts…
Association of self-reported use of cannabis for the purpose of improving physical, mental, and sleep health with problematic cannabis use risk
All cannabis use purposes examined increased risk of problematic cannabis use. Physical health use purposes was associated with highest PCU risk. This study demonstrates the risk for cannabis use disorder associated with self-medicating with cannabis
Solid Surf: An Assessment of the Heritage Value of late1970s–early 1980s Concrete and Asphalt Skateboard Parks, and Strategies for their Protection and Conservation
Skateboarding is an important part of 21st century culture and has considerable cultural, financial and entertainment value, as indicated by its recent incorporation in the Tokyo Olympics. It is practiced on human-made surfaces such as pavements and roads as well as on wooden ramps and within asphalt and concrete skateparks. Hundreds of examples of the latter were built worldwide during the skateboarding’s ‘Second Wave’ in the late 1970s–early 19…
Agios Petros and the Neolithic pottery-making traditions of the deserted islands, Northern Sporades, Greece
The Neolithic sites of the Cyclops Cave and Agios Petros provide insights into a once flourishing culture that inhabited the 'Deserted Islands' of the northern Sporades in the Greek north Aegean. Building on scientific analysis of ceramics from the seasonally inhabited Cyclops Cave, the present study examines in detail 39 sherds from the permanently settled site of Agios Petros on the adjacent island of Kyra Panagia, using a combination of thin s…
Thin Section Petrography, Geochemistry and Scanning Electron Microscopy of Archaeological Ceramics
Using over 400 colour figures of a diverse range of artefact types and archaeological periods from 50 countries worldwide, this book outlines the mineralogical, chemical and microstructural composition of ancient ceramics and provides comprehensive guidelines for their scientific study within archaeology. \nThin section petrography, geochemistry, scanning electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction are key scientific methods used to investigate the…
A primate model for the origin of flake technology
Origins and Distribution of Hellenistic and Late Republican Transport Amphorae in the Dalmatian Region and its Implications for Adriatic Trade and Economy
The presence of Hellenistic and Late Republican transport amphorae at numerous sites along the Adriatic and within shipwrecks off the coast indicates that intense trade and/or exchange in commodities such as olive oil and wine took place in this region from the fourth until the first century BC. The details of this commercial activity are nevertheless unclear in terms of the sources, destinations, and routes via which transport containers and the…
A World of Goods: Transport Jars and Commodity Exchange at the Late Bronze Age Harbor of Kommos, Crete
The harbor site of Kommos, Crete, has yielded rich evidence for longdistance exchange in the form of ceramic transport jars of types used not only for distribution within Crete and the Aegean, but also across the eastern Mediterranean. An integrated petrographic and chemical approach is here employed in order to determine the provenance of short-necked amphoras, transport stirrup jars, Egyptian jars, and Canaanite jars. The results reveal a detai…
Keeping an eye on your pots: The provenance of Neolithic ceramics from the Cave of the Cyclops, Youra, Greece
One hundred sherds of grey: Compositional and technological characterization of Medieval greyware pottery production at Cabrera d'Anoia, Catalonia, Spain
The occurrence and research potential of microfossils in inorganic archaeological materials
The microscopic remains of organisms, or “microfossils,” can occur within or attached to a range of different inorganic archaeological materials. Because of their small size, these inconspicuous phenomena can be easily overlooked. However, as this paper illustrates, the detailed biological and palaeontological analysis of microfossils in such contexts may be an important source of archaeological data. By critically reviewing a range of specialize…
Pyrotechnological connections? Re-investigating the link between pottery firing technology and the origins of metallurgy in the Vinča Culture, Serbia
The geochemical diversity of neogene clay deposits in Crete and its implications for provenance studies of Minoan pottery
The determination of provenance probably forms the primary role of geochemical analyses in archaeological ceramic studies. In what has comprised a successful field of study, the ultimate basis for such research has been the comparison of pottery compositions with the geochemical diversity displayed by clay deposits within a given study area. Although such studies are now common, the understanding of chemical and mineralogical variability in ceram…
To the vicinity and beyond! Production, distribution and trade of cooking greywares in medieval Catalonia, Spain
Calcareous Microfossils in Bronze Age Aegean Ceramics: Illuminating Technology and Provenance
The calcareous skeletal remains of various microscopic organisms such as foraminifera and ostracods are a striking feature of thin sections of many archaeological ceramics from the Aegean Bronze Age. While the presence of these calcareous microfossils in pottery has been noted for some time, attempts to utilize them to further the aims of ceramic compositional analysis have been few in number. In the following paper, we take a first detailed look…
Intentional clay-mixing in the production of traditional and ancient ceramics and its identification in thin section
Middle Neolithic pits and a burial at West Amesbury, Wiltshire
Excavations on the south-eastern slopes of King Barrow Ridge, 1.5 km east of Stonehenge, revealed five pits, a grave and other features of Middle Neolithic date. Analysis of the pit assemblages and the partial inhumation interred in the grave has provided insights into lifeways in this landscape in the late fourth millennium cal BC. Evidence suggests that the area was visited by a pastoralist, mobile community on a semi-regular basis for a signif…
A primate model for the origin of flake technology
Scientific preparations of archaeological ceramics status, value and long term future
Uruk expansion or integrated development? A petrographic and geochemical perspective from Gurga Chiya, Iraqi Kurdistan
Roman pottery production in Civitas Tungrorum, central Belgium, during the first–third centuries ce
Aspects of Roman pottery production at the workshops of Kontich, Tienen, Rumst, Grobbendonk and Clavier‐Vervoz in the Civitas Tungrorum of central Belgium are explored. A total of 150 wasters from five sites were studied macroscopically, as well as via a combination of thin‐section petrography, geochemistry and scanning electron microscopy, in order to gain insights into ceramic technology and aspects of the organization of production. Particular…
Building the Terracotta Army: Ceramic craft technology and organisation of production at Qin Shihuang's mausoleum complex
Production and Use of Ceramics in the First Millennium BC: Jebel Moya, Sudan
The site of Jebel Moya, situated in the center of the southern Gezira Plain in southcentral Sudan, has an occupational sequence spanning at least five millennia until around 2000 years ago. Renewed excavation is shedding new light on its occupational chronology and socioeconomic history, including activities such as burial, savanna herding, and domesticated sorghum cultivation practices dating to at least the mid-third millennium BC. In the prese…
Origins and Distribution of Hellenistic and Late Republican Transport Amphorae in the Dalmatian Region and its Implications for Adriatic Trade and Economy
The presence of Hellenistic and Late Republican transport amphorae at numerous sites along the Adriatic and within shipwrecks off the coast indicates that intense trade and/or exchange in commodities such as olive oil and wine took place in this region from the fourth until the first century BC. The details of this commercial activity are nevertheless unclear in terms of the sources, destinations, and routes via which transport containers and the…
A glass workshop in ‘Aqir, Israel and a new type of compositional contamination
Lost at sea: Identifying the post-depositional alteration of amphorae in ancient shipwrecks
Another One Bites the Dust: Quality Control and Firing Technology in the Production of Medieval Greyware Ceramics in Catalonia, Spain
The following study sheds new light on the quality control procedures of ancient potters by comparing cooking vessels exported from the medieval kiln‐site of Cabrera d'Anoia (Barcelona) with ‘wasters' that were discarded at source. The firing temperature of examined sherds indicates that only pots subjected to a maximum temperature of 800–850°C were offered for sale. The potters at Cabrera d'Anoia appear to have been fully aware of the optimal ba…
Geochemical evidence for the manufacture, logistics and supply‐chain management of Emperor Qin Shihuang's Terracotta Army, China
Non‐invasive materials characterisation of reconstructed statues of Emperor Qin Shihuang's Terracotta Army has revealed distinct micro‐geochemical patterning within the clay paste used in their manufacture. The significance of this is explored in terms of the production sequence, logistics and supply‐chain management involved in the construction of this enormous funerary assemblage. Of particular interest is a compositional distinction between fi…
Production and circulation of Late Hellenistic fine table ware in Central Dalmatia, Croatia
Re-examining shell-tempered Chickasaw pottery in post-contact Mississippi, USA
Use-wear and residue analysis of pounding tools used by wild capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus) from Serra da Capivara (Piauí, Brazil)
Deciphering Compositional Patterning in Plainware Ceramics from Late Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Sites in the Peninsular Ranges, San Diego County, California
We report on thin section petrographic analysis of plainware ceramic sherds from two Late Prehistoric hunter-gatherer sites in the Peninsular Ranges of San Diego County, California. We describe several distinctive compositional groups and compare these with previously analyzed ceramics and geological field samples to infer probable raw materials and provenance. In addition, taking into account archaeological and ethnohistoric context, we suggest …
The geochemical diversity of neogene clay deposits in Crete and its implications for provenance studies of Minoan pottery
The determination of provenance probably forms the primary role of geochemical analyses in archaeological ceramic studies. In what has comprised a successful field of study, the ultimate basis for such research has been the comparison of pottery compositions with the geochemical diversity displayed by clay deposits within a given study area. Although such studies are now common, the understanding of chemical and mineralogical variability in ceram…
Calcareous Microfossils in Bronze Age Aegean Ceramics: Illuminating Technology and Provenance
The calcareous skeletal remains of various microscopic organisms such as foraminifera and ostracods are a striking feature of thin sections of many archaeological ceramics from the Aegean Bronze Age. While the presence of these calcareous microfossils in pottery has been noted for some time, attempts to utilize them to further the aims of ceramic compositional analysis have been few in number. In the following paper, we take a first detailed look…
The occurrence and research potential of microfossils in inorganic archaeological materials
The microscopic remains of organisms, or “microfossils,” can occur within or attached to a range of different inorganic archaeological materials. Because of their small size, these inconspicuous phenomena can be easily overlooked. However, as this paper illustrates, the detailed biological and palaeontological analysis of microfossils in such contexts may be an important source of archaeological data. By critically reviewing a range of specialize…
Keeping an eye on your pots: The provenance of Neolithic ceramics from the Cave of the Cyclops, Youra, Greece
Petrodatabase: An on-line database for thin section ceramic petrography
A World of Goods: Transport Jars and Commodity Exchange at the Late Bronze Age Harbor of Kommos, Crete
The harbor site of Kommos, Crete, has yielded rich evidence for longdistance exchange in the form of ceramic transport jars of types used not only for distribution within Crete and the Aegean, but also across the eastern Mediterranean. An integrated petrographic and chemical approach is here employed in order to determine the provenance of short-necked amphoras, transport stirrup jars, Egyptian jars, and Canaanite jars. The results reveal a detai…
Ceramic Petrography: The Interpretation of Archaeological Pottery & Related Artefacts in Thin Section
Deciphering Compositional Patterning in Plainware Ceramics from Late Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Sites in the Peninsular Ranges, San Diego County, California
We report on thin section petrographic analysis of plainware ceramic sherds from two Late Prehistoric hunter-gatherer sites in the Peninsular Ranges of San Diego County, California. We describe several distinctive compositional groups and compare these with previously analyzed ceramics and geological field samples to infer probable raw materials and provenance. In addition, taking into account archaeological and ethnohistoric context, we suggest …
One hundred sherds of grey: Compositional and technological characterization of Medieval greyware pottery production at Cabrera d'Anoia, Catalonia, Spain
Ceramic distribution, migration and cultural interaction among late prehistoric (ca. 1300–200 B.P.) hunter-gatherers in the San Diego region, Southern California
To the vicinity and beyond! Production, distribution and trade of cooking greywares in medieval Catalonia, Spain
Building the Terracotta Army: Ceramic craft technology and organisation of production at Qin Shihuang's mausoleum complex
Ceramic composition at Chalcolithic Shiqmim, northern Negev desert, Israel: Investigating technology and provenance using thin section petrography, instrumental geochemistry and calcareous nannofossil…
Technological innovations in ceramic production and other crafts are hallmarks of the Chalcolithic period (4500–3600 BCE) in the southern Levant, but details of manufacturing traditions have not been fully investigated using the range of analytical methods currently available. This paper presents results of a compositional study of 51 sherds of ceramic churns and other pottery types from the Chalcolithic site of Shiqmim in the northern Negev dese…
Scientific preparations of archaeological ceramics status, value and long term future
Prehistoric Settlement, Mobility and Societal Structure in the Peak District National Park: New Evidence from Ceramic Compositional Analysis
Detailed compositional and technological analysis of a large assemblage of prehistoric ceramics from numerous sites situated within the Peak District National Park has been used to explore the settlement patterns, societal structure, mobility and interaction of the populations that inhabited this area during the Early Bronze Age to Early Iron Age. A surprising pattern emerges of the widespread dominance of a single, geographically restricted temp…
Another One Bites the Dust: Quality Control and Firing Technology in the Production of Medieval Greyware Ceramics in Catalonia, Spain
The following study sheds new light on the quality control procedures of ancient potters by comparing cooking vessels exported from the medieval kiln‐site of Cabrera d'Anoia (Barcelona) with ‘wasters' that were discarded at source. The firing temperature of examined sherds indicates that only pots subjected to a maximum temperature of 800–850°C were offered for sale. The potters at Cabrera d'Anoia appear to have been fully aware of the optimal ba…
Production and circulation of Late Hellenistic fine table ware in Central Dalmatia, Croatia
Re-examining shell-tempered Chickasaw pottery in post-contact Mississippi, USA
Uruk expansion or integrated development? A petrographic and geochemical perspective from Gurga Chiya, Iraqi Kurdistan
Use-wear and residue analysis of pounding tools used by wild capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus) from Serra da Capivara (Piauí, Brazil)
Pyrotechnological connections? Re-investigating the link between pottery firing technology and the origins of metallurgy in the Vinča Culture, Serbia
Middle Neolithic pits and a burial at West Amesbury, Wiltshire
Excavations on the south-eastern slopes of King Barrow Ridge, 1.5 km east of Stonehenge, revealed five pits, a grave and other features of Middle Neolithic date. Analysis of the pit assemblages and the partial inhumation interred in the grave has provided insights into lifeways in this landscape in the late fourth millennium cal BC. Evidence suggests that the area was visited by a pastoralist, mobile community on a semi-regular basis for a signif…
Roman pottery production in Civitas Tungrorum, central Belgium, during the first–third centuries ce
Aspects of Roman pottery production at the workshops of Kontich, Tienen, Rumst, Grobbendonk and Clavier‐Vervoz in the Civitas Tungrorum of central Belgium are explored. A total of 150 wasters from five sites were studied macroscopically, as well as via a combination of thin‐section petrography, geochemistry and scanning electron microscopy, in order to gain insights into ceramic technology and aspects of the organization of production. Particular…
Ceramic technology at Wadi Fidan 61, an early Pottery Neolithic site (ca. 6500 B.C.E.) in the Faynan region of southern Jordan
The Faynan region of southern Jordan became a center of industrial-scale metallurgical production during the Bronze and Iron Ages. However, socio-economic developments of the Pottery Neolithic period (ca. 6500-5500 B.C.E.) that helped set the stage for the rise of complex copper-producing societies are not well-understood. In this paper, we focus on ceramic technology at the early Pottery Neolithic site of Wadi Fidan 61 in the western part of the…
Pottery technology at the dawn of metallurgy in the Vinča culture
This chapter summarises the macroscopic and microscopic analyses of pottery sherds from the sites of Belovode and Pločnik, presented in Chapters 14 and 31, and provides insight into different technological traits in order to aid reconstruction of pottery making recipes in these two Vinča culture communities. Using a multi- pronged scientific approach, we reconstructed routines of raw material acquisition and processing, techniques of forming and …
Archaeology (46 works) · Geography (35 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (32 works) · Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis (25 works) · Pottery (25 works) · Geology (23 works) · History (22 works) · Materials Science (18 works) · History (16 works) · Petrography (15 works)