Silvia Polla
Biographic Data
| ID | 3434085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Silvia Polla |
| GIVEN NAMES | Silvia |
| FAMILY NAME | Polla |
| SIGNATURE | POLLA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2395-2448 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Kitchen Culture in 13th-Century Syria
While food studies have long been part of archaeological research, they have only recently entered the archaeology of the Islamic world. The archaeology of food and cooking has been primarily based on botanical analysis of kitchen waste and formal stylistic ceramic analysis of cooking wares, with the aim to describe in broad terms diet and consumption. We know very little, however, about actual practice: how people prepared food, why they chose t…
New Insights from Middle Islamic Ceramics from Jerash
This article presents selected contextualized ceramic finds of the Middle Islamic period from the Northwest Quarter in Jerash, where a settlement of the same period has been investigated over the last years (2011–2016) within the framework of the Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Project. Twenty-four sherds from various vessel types were selected for petrographic analysis, with 17 of these undergoing organic residue analysis as well. We brin…
Residue Analysis as Evidence of Activity Areas and Phased Abandonment in a Medieval Jordanian Village
During the 2013 and 2014 excavation seasons, a cache of complete ceramic vessels was recovered from a stone-outlined pit sealed by domestic building collapse at the site of Tall Hisban, a Mamluk-era rural site in central Jordan. Among the finds were two whole, handless stonepaste jars of the late 14th century—an extremely rare find in Bilad al-Sham—along with a small, handless handmade jar containing a gelatinous residue. Valuable not only for th…
Note de céramologie africaine. Observations archéologiques et archéométriques sur les céramiques modelées du groupe dit «Calcitic ware»
Bonifay Michel, Capelli Claudio, Polla Silvia. Note de ceramologie africaine. Observations archeologiques et archeometriques sur les ceramiques modelees du groupe dit «Calcitic ware». In: Antiquites africaines, 38-39,2002. pp. 431-440
Note de céramologie africaine. Observations archéologiques et archéométriques sur les céramiques modelées du groupe dit «Calcitic ware»
Bonifay Michel, Capelli Claudio, Polla Silvia. Note de ceramologie africaine. Observations archeologiques et archeometriques sur les ceramiques modelees du groupe dit «Calcitic ware». In: Antiquites africaines, 38-39,2002. pp. 431-440
Note de céramologie africaine. Observations archéologiques et archéométriques sur les céramiques modelées du groupe dit «Calcitic ware»
Bonifay Michel, Capelli Claudio, Polla Silvia. Note de ceramologie africaine. Observations archeologiques et archeometriques sur les ceramiques modelees du groupe dit «Calcitic ware». In: Antiquites africaines, 38-39,2002. pp. 431-440
Residue Analysis as Evidence of Activity Areas and Phased Abandonment in a Medieval Jordanian Village
During the 2013 and 2014 excavation seasons, a cache of complete ceramic vessels was recovered from a stone-outlined pit sealed by domestic building collapse at the site of Tall Hisban, a Mamluk-era rural site in central Jordan. Among the finds were two whole, handless stonepaste jars of the late 14th century—an extremely rare find in Bilad al-Sham—along with a small, handless handmade jar containing a gelatinous residue. Valuable not only for th…
New Insights from Middle Islamic Ceramics from Jerash
This article presents selected contextualized ceramic finds of the Middle Islamic period from the Northwest Quarter in Jerash, where a settlement of the same period has been investigated over the last years (2011–2016) within the framework of the Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Project. Twenty-four sherds from various vessel types were selected for petrographic analysis, with 17 of these undergoing organic residue analysis as well. We brin…
Kitchen Culture in 13th-Century Syria
While food studies have long been part of archaeological research, they have only recently entered the archaeology of the Islamic world. The archaeology of food and cooking has been primarily based on botanical analysis of kitchen waste and formal stylistic ceramic analysis of cooking wares, with the aim to describe in broad terms diet and consumption. We know very little, however, about actual practice: how people prepared food, why they chose t…
Archaeology (3 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (3 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (2 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · History (2 works) · Islam (2 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (1 work) · Arabic (1 work)