Leah D Minc
Biographic Data
| ID | 3790793 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leah D Minc |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leah D |
| FAMILY NAME | Minc |
| SIGNATURE | MINC L D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oregon State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 224 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The evolution of Crema (Cream) wares in the Valley of Oaxaca – Insights from Inaa and ceramic petrography
Dalma ceramics at Surezha in the Erbil Plain
Imperial Inca-style pottery from Ecuador
A preliminary assessment of ceramic style and chemical composition during the Chalcolithic era at Surezha, Iraqi Kurdistan
Recent excavations at Surezha, a site in the Erbil Plain of Iraqi Kurdistan, are revealing the settlement history of this village from the late 6th through the mid-4th millennium BC (the Late Ubaid through Late Chalcolithic 4 periods). Throughout Prehistory, this region has had strong cultural links with Eastern Anatolia, Northwestern Iran, Western Syria, and Southern Mesopotamia, although the detailed chronology of such connections and their rol…
Ceramic exchange and the shifting political landscape in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, 700 BCE-200 CE
The formative phase of the Helmand Civilization, Iran and Afghanistan
Chronological trends in the use of Valley of Oaxaca ceramics and ceramic styles at Cerro Jazmín, Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca
Regional and long-distance exchange of an emblematic ‘prestige’ ceramic in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands. Results of Neutron Activation Analysis
This article investigates the production and distribution of a high quality ceramic typical of the Indo-Iranian Borderlands ca 3000 BC, a ceramic we term here Late Shahi-Tump ware, often included under the generic label Emir Grey ware. Recorded at sites located hundreds of kilometers distant on the Southeastern Iranian Plateau, including Shahr-i Sokhta, Tepe Yahya, and Shahi-Tump, this ceramic is one of the few data points we have to approach the…
Tiltepec Yellow-Ware Ceramics From Cerro Jazmín, Oaxaca
We present new data on a class of ceramics called Tiltepec yellow wares, dated to the Late and Terminal Formative period occupations at Cerro Jazmín, Oaxaca (300 BC- AD 300). Evidence from 27 radiocarbon-dated ceramic assemblages indicates that Tiltepec yellow wares are a distinct ceramic type. Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA) results further confirm the wares' identification. Defining Tiltepec yellow wares as a type apart from Cla…
Trade and interaction during the era of the Uruk expansion
A view from the east
Investigating ceramic production during the Proto-Elamite period at Tepe Yahya, southeastern Iran
Itinerant potters and the transmission of ceramic technologies and styles during the Proto-Elamite period in Iran
Ceramic provenance and the regional organization of pottery production during the later Formative periods in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
Ceramics and long-distance trade in early Mesopotamian states
Trace-element analyses of Uruk ceramics
Assessing Natural Clay Composition in the Valley of Oaxaca as a Basis for Ceramic Provenance Studies
The Oaxaca Clay Survey was initiated to provide baseline data on clay composition within the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, to assist in provenance determination of prehistoric ceramics. Natural clays were sampled from 135 locations throughout the valley, and analysed using INAA in combination with ceramic petrography. Observed geographical trends in trace‐element and mineralogical composition confirm that while parent material (surficial geology) str…
Field Survey and Geochemical Characterization of the Southern Armenian Obsidian Sources
In comparison with those of the west Mediterranean, the Aegean, and Anatolia, the numerous obsidian sources in the southern Caucasus have begun to receive archaeological attention only recently. The least research has been directed to the southernmost of these sources, in the province of Syunik in southern Armenia. These sources lie close to the border with Azerbaijan, in remote mountainous uplands reaching elevations above 3200 m and under snow …
Style and Substance
The emergence of the Triple Alliance empire and the consolidation of political power in the Basin of Mexico is traditionally associated with a high level of economic integration achieved through regional market exchange. Although researchers debate whether the market system was dominated by commercial factors or political forces, the assumption that the pax azteca led to a single, basin-wide exchange system is not generally challenged. Yet an inc…
Exchange patterns, boundary formation, and sociopolitical change in Late Bronze Age Southern Caucasia
M Glow Blue’
The Ford Nuclear Reactor operated from 1957 to 2003 on the University of Michigan's North Campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Over its 45‐year lifespan, the facility played a key role in archaeometric research, fostering early methodological studies using INAA and supporting archaeological materials science investigations of lithics, ceramics, metals and bone. One small part of the FNR's abundant legacy was the initiation of trace‐element studies of O…
Clay, Conflict, and Village Aggregation
As was the case throughout much of north-central New Mexico, the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries marked a period of rapid settlement pattern change in the Taos District as dispersed pithouse and small pueblo hamlets were replaced by tightly clustered pueblos and ultimately by the emergence of large aggregated villages. Here we consider the effects of this transition on the manner in which local potters procured raw clay for the production o…
Monitoring regional market systems in prehistory
Characterization of bricks and tiles from the 17th-century brick Chapel, St. Mary's City, Maryland
Identifying the sources of Inka period ceramics from northern Chile
A compositional analysis of pottery vessels associated with the Inca ritual of capacocha
Style and Substance
The emergence of the Triple Alliance empire and the consolidation of political power in the Basin of Mexico is traditionally associated with a high level of economic integration achieved through regional market exchange. Although researchers debate whether the market system was dominated by commercial factors or political forces, the assumption that the pax azteca led to a single, basin-wide exchange system is not generally challenged. Yet an inc…
Black-on-Orange Ceramic Production in the Aztec Empire's Heartland
Compositional and stylistic analyses of decorated ceramics have provided information about the regional organization of economic systems in the Aztec empire's core zone, the Basin of Mexico. Late Aztec Black-on-orange ceramics (A. D. 1350-1520) are found at nearly all archaeological sites in the Basin of Mexico, but prior to this study their sources were not verified. This study has investigated whether Black-on-orange ceramics were produced in o…
Clay, Conflict, and Village Aggregation
As was the case throughout much of north-central New Mexico, the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries marked a period of rapid settlement pattern change in the Taos District as dispersed pithouse and small pueblo hamlets were replaced by tightly clustered pueblos and ultimately by the emergence of large aggregated villages. Here we consider the effects of this transition on the manner in which local potters procured raw clay for the production o…
Identifying the sources of Inka period ceramics from northern Chile
Exchange patterns, boundary formation, and sociopolitical change in Late Bronze Age Southern Caucasia
Early Complex Societies in Southern Caucasia
The Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500-1200 B.C.) in southern Caucasia marked the first appearance of a radically altered regional sociopolitical tradition founded upon newly empowered elites sequestered in fortified citadels. The archaeology of the era indicates a significant break from the preceding Middle Bronze Age, when large burial mounds and a dearth of settlement sites have long suggested the prevalence of pastoral nomadism and mobile sociopolitic…
Trace-element analyses of Uruk ceramics
Ceramics and long-distance trade in early Mesopotamian states
A preliminary assessment of ceramic style and chemical composition during the Chalcolithic era at Surezha, Iraqi Kurdistan
Recent excavations at Surezha, a site in the Erbil Plain of Iraqi Kurdistan, are revealing the settlement history of this village from the late 6th through the mid-4th millennium BC (the Late Ubaid through Late Chalcolithic 4 periods). Throughout Prehistory, this region has had strong cultural links with Eastern Anatolia, Northwestern Iran, Western Syria, and Southern Mesopotamia, although the detailed chronology of such connections and their rol…
Regional and long-distance exchange of an emblematic ‘prestige’ ceramic in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands. Results of Neutron Activation Analysis
This article investigates the production and distribution of a high quality ceramic typical of the Indo-Iranian Borderlands ca 3000 BC, a ceramic we term here Late Shahi-Tump ware, often included under the generic label Emir Grey ware. Recorded at sites located hundreds of kilometers distant on the Southeastern Iranian Plateau, including Shahr-i Sokhta, Tepe Yahya, and Shahi-Tump, this ceramic is one of the few data points we have to approach the…
Tiltepec Yellow-Ware Ceramics From Cerro Jazmín, Oaxaca
We present new data on a class of ceramics called Tiltepec yellow wares, dated to the Late and Terminal Formative period occupations at Cerro Jazmín, Oaxaca (300 BC- AD 300). Evidence from 27 radiocarbon-dated ceramic assemblages indicates that Tiltepec yellow wares are a distinct ceramic type. Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA) results further confirm the wares' identification. Defining Tiltepec yellow wares as a type apart from Cla…
M Glow Blue’
The Ford Nuclear Reactor operated from 1957 to 2003 on the University of Michigan's North Campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Over its 45‐year lifespan, the facility played a key role in archaeometric research, fostering early methodological studies using INAA and supporting archaeological materials science investigations of lithics, ceramics, metals and bone. One small part of the FNR's abundant legacy was the initiation of trace‐element studies of O…
Dalma ceramics at Surezha in the Erbil Plain
Chronological trends in the use of Valley of Oaxaca ceramics and ceramic styles at Cerro Jazmín, Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca
Itinerant potters and the transmission of ceramic technologies and styles during the Proto-Elamite period in Iran
Assessing Natural Clay Composition in the Valley of Oaxaca as a Basis for Ceramic Provenance Studies
The Oaxaca Clay Survey was initiated to provide baseline data on clay composition within the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, to assist in provenance determination of prehistoric ceramics. Natural clays were sampled from 135 locations throughout the valley, and analysed using INAA in combination with ceramic petrography. Observed geographical trends in trace‐element and mineralogical composition confirm that while parent material (surficial geology) str…
Field Survey and Geochemical Characterization of the Southern Armenian Obsidian Sources
In comparison with those of the west Mediterranean, the Aegean, and Anatolia, the numerous obsidian sources in the southern Caucasus have begun to receive archaeological attention only recently. The least research has been directed to the southernmost of these sources, in the province of Syunik in southern Armenia. These sources lie close to the border with Azerbaijan, in remote mountainous uplands reaching elevations above 3200 m and under snow …
A view from the east
Ceramic provenance and the regional organization of pottery production during the later Formative periods in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
Characterization of bricks and tiles from the 17th-century brick Chapel, St. Mary's City, Maryland
Imperial Inca-style pottery from Ecuador
Ceramic exchange and the shifting political landscape in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, 700 BCE-200 CE
Investigating ceramic production during the Proto-Elamite period at Tepe Yahya, southeastern Iran
Scarcity and survival
Black-on-Orange Ceramic Production in the Aztec Empire's Heartland
Compositional and stylistic analyses of decorated ceramics have provided information about the regional organization of economic systems in the Aztec empire's core zone, the Basin of Mexico. Late Aztec Black-on-orange ceramics (A. D. 1350-1520) are found at nearly all archaeological sites in the Basin of Mexico, but prior to this study their sources were not verified. This study has investigated whether Black-on-orange ceramics were produced in o…
Early Complex Societies in Southern Caucasia
The Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500-1200 B.C.) in southern Caucasia marked the first appearance of a radically altered regional sociopolitical tradition founded upon newly empowered elites sequestered in fortified citadels. The archaeology of the era indicates a significant break from the preceding Middle Bronze Age, when large burial mounds and a dearth of settlement sites have long suggested the prevalence of pastoral nomadism and mobile sociopolitic…
Characterization of bricks and tiles from the 17th-century brick Chapel, St. Mary's City, Maryland
Identifying the sources of Inka period ceramics from northern Chile
A compositional analysis of pottery vessels associated with the Inca ritual of capacocha
Monitoring regional market systems in prehistory
M Glow Blue’
The Ford Nuclear Reactor operated from 1957 to 2003 on the University of Michigan's North Campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Over its 45‐year lifespan, the facility played a key role in archaeometric research, fostering early methodological studies using INAA and supporting archaeological materials science investigations of lithics, ceramics, metals and bone. One small part of the FNR's abundant legacy was the initiation of trace‐element studies of O…
Clay, Conflict, and Village Aggregation
As was the case throughout much of north-central New Mexico, the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries marked a period of rapid settlement pattern change in the Taos District as dispersed pithouse and small pueblo hamlets were replaced by tightly clustered pueblos and ultimately by the emergence of large aggregated villages. Here we consider the effects of this transition on the manner in which local potters procured raw clay for the production o…
Exchange patterns, boundary formation, and sociopolitical change in Late Bronze Age Southern Caucasia
Style and Substance
The emergence of the Triple Alliance empire and the consolidation of political power in the Basin of Mexico is traditionally associated with a high level of economic integration achieved through regional market exchange. Although researchers debate whether the market system was dominated by commercial factors or political forces, the assumption that the pax azteca led to a single, basin-wide exchange system is not generally challenged. Yet an inc…
Field Survey and Geochemical Characterization of the Southern Armenian Obsidian Sources
In comparison with those of the west Mediterranean, the Aegean, and Anatolia, the numerous obsidian sources in the southern Caucasus have begun to receive archaeological attention only recently. The least research has been directed to the southernmost of these sources, in the province of Syunik in southern Armenia. These sources lie close to the border with Azerbaijan, in remote mountainous uplands reaching elevations above 3200 m and under snow …
Assessing Natural Clay Composition in the Valley of Oaxaca as a Basis for Ceramic Provenance Studies
The Oaxaca Clay Survey was initiated to provide baseline data on clay composition within the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, to assist in provenance determination of prehistoric ceramics. Natural clays were sampled from 135 locations throughout the valley, and analysed using INAA in combination with ceramic petrography. Observed geographical trends in trace‐element and mineralogical composition confirm that while parent material (surficial geology) str…
Trade and interaction during the era of the Uruk expansion
A view from the east
Investigating ceramic production during the Proto-Elamite period at Tepe Yahya, southeastern Iran
Itinerant potters and the transmission of ceramic technologies and styles during the Proto-Elamite period in Iran
Ceramic provenance and the regional organization of pottery production during the later Formative periods in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
Ceramics and long-distance trade in early Mesopotamian states
Trace-element analyses of Uruk ceramics
Chronological trends in the use of Valley of Oaxaca ceramics and ceramic styles at Cerro Jazmín, Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca
Regional and long-distance exchange of an emblematic ‘prestige’ ceramic in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands. Results of Neutron Activation Analysis
This article investigates the production and distribution of a high quality ceramic typical of the Indo-Iranian Borderlands ca 3000 BC, a ceramic we term here Late Shahi-Tump ware, often included under the generic label Emir Grey ware. Recorded at sites located hundreds of kilometers distant on the Southeastern Iranian Plateau, including Shahr-i Sokhta, Tepe Yahya, and Shahi-Tump, this ceramic is one of the few data points we have to approach the…
Tiltepec Yellow-Ware Ceramics From Cerro Jazmín, Oaxaca
We present new data on a class of ceramics called Tiltepec yellow wares, dated to the Late and Terminal Formative period occupations at Cerro Jazmín, Oaxaca (300 BC- AD 300). Evidence from 27 radiocarbon-dated ceramic assemblages indicates that Tiltepec yellow wares are a distinct ceramic type. Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA) results further confirm the wares' identification. Defining Tiltepec yellow wares as a type apart from Cla…
The formative phase of the Helmand Civilization, Iran and Afghanistan
A preliminary assessment of ceramic style and chemical composition during the Chalcolithic era at Surezha, Iraqi Kurdistan
Recent excavations at Surezha, a site in the Erbil Plain of Iraqi Kurdistan, are revealing the settlement history of this village from the late 6th through the mid-4th millennium BC (the Late Ubaid through Late Chalcolithic 4 periods). Throughout Prehistory, this region has had strong cultural links with Eastern Anatolia, Northwestern Iran, Western Syria, and Southern Mesopotamia, although the detailed chronology of such connections and their rol…
Archaeology (28 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (28 works) · Geography (27 works) · Geology (15 works) · History (15 works) · History (14 works) · Ancient history (13 works) · Ceramic (10 works) · Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis (10 works) · Geochemistry (10 works)