Peter M Day
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 93971 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Peter M Day |
| PRENOMES | Peter M |
| SOBRENOME | Day |
| ASSINATURA | DAY P M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3954-2603 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 53 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 370 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1963 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Like a burning British neck
Strategies for success
Las primeras tradiciones alfareras del Vinalopó. Proveniencia y tecnología en las cerámicas neolíticas del número 3 de la calle Colón (Novelda, Alicante)
El proceso de expansión del Neolítico en el S de Europa lleva generalmente asociada la difusión de un conjunto de conocimientos, tanto de carácter socioeconómico como tecnológico. Entre estos últimos, la alfarería permite observar diferentes tradiciones a partir no solo de las materias primas empleadas, sino también aportando información sobre las diferentes formas de elaboración. Este trabajo se aproxima a ambas variables a través de la observac…
Pottery traditions, consumers’ choices and exchange networks at Late Bronze Age Cobatillas la Vieja (southeast Iberia)
Cobatillas la Vieja is one of the main settlements for understanding the beginning of the Late Bronze Age (14th-13th centuries cal. BC) in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula. After the macroscopic study of their ceramic assemblage, 30 representative samples were analysed by thin-section petrography, X‐ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and binocular microscopy to address issues of provenance and technology. The characte…
Portable ED-XRF as a tool for optimizing sampling strategy
Technological change and cultural resistance among southeast Iberian potters
Cutting down on the grog
Islamic Ceramics and Rural Economy in the Trapani Mountains during the 11th century
Located in the Trapani Mountains of North-West Sicily, the hilltop site of Pizzo Monaco hasformed the focus of systematic excavation and an innovative, integrated study of the totalceramic assemblage, as part of the MEMOLA FP7 project. The date, provenance and productiontechnology of the varied types of pottery are investigated by macroscopic, morphological anddecorative analysis, in combination with petrography and scanning electron microscopy i…
Early Helladic I and Talioti Pottery
This paper discusses the analysis of Early Bronze Age ‘Talioti’‐style ceramics found at sites in the Argolid and Corinthia, in the north‐east Peloponnese of mainland Greece. It presents the results of an integrated methodology that addresses questions relating to the potential sources of raw materials, the identification of potting practices, and the exchange of such vessels during the Early Bronze Age period. The work places site‐based results w…
Between East and West
The island of Samos occupies a key position between the central Aegean and western Anatolia during the third millennium BC. A recent study of the substantial pottery assemblages from the pivotal site of Heraion has defined a rich stratigraphy covering the entire Early Bronze Age (EBA). Currently the only known EBA site on Samos, Heraion has provided the opportunity to undertake a holistic ceramic study with the aim of defining and characterizing …
Plus ça change
Combined petrographic and chemical analysis of water containers and glazed wares in the Early Islamic Vega of Granada (southeast Spain, 6th to 12th centuries CE)
Reconstructing change in firing technology during the Final Neolithic–Early Bronze Age transition in Phaistos, Crete. Just the tip of the iceberg
Changes in firing practice have been suggested as representing a revolution in ceramic technology at the beginning of the Bronze Age in Crete. The introduction of kiln structures has been held responsible for such a change, perhaps by newcomers to the island, along with other innovative technologies. However, these hypotheses were often based on limited analytical data and mostly on macroscopic examination. This paper re-examines the suggestion o…
Changing Clays
This paper provides a contextual summary of a diachronic analysis of ceramic vessels and hunter-gatherer societies from the final Pleistocene to the later Holocene in a remote corner of the Vitim Basin in Eastern Siberia. An integrated programme of ceramic analysis, raw materials survey, and archaeological investigation is drawn into new models of group mobility and social behaviour. The results challenge widespread assumptions about the relation…
Pottery production and exchange at the Heraion, Samos during the late third millennium BC
Pottery production at two neighbouring centres in the Late Bronze Age Saronic Gulf
Las cerámicas aborígenes de Gran Canaria (Islas Canarias) a través del yacimiento de La Cerera
Se analizan los materiales cerámicos prehispánicos del yacimiento de La Cerera en Gran Canaria (siglos VII-XIII D.C.). Se integra la clasificación morfotécnica y funcional, y la caracterización instrumental mediante fluorescencia de rayos X (FRX), difracción de rayos X (DRX), petrografía óptica (PO) y microscopía electrónica de barrido (MEB) relacionando cada nivel de estudio aplicado. Como resultado se detectaron diferentes cadenas operativas, c…
United in our differences
Central Mediterranean Phoenician pottery imports in the Northeastern Iberian Peninsula
The production and distribution of cooking pots in two towns of South East Spain in the 6th–11th centuries
Cooking Pots and I slamicization in the Early Medieval V ega of G ranada ( A l‐ A ndalus, Sixth to Twelfth Centuries)
In this paper we undertake a petrographic analysis of cooking wares in order to explore the relationship between cultural change and issues of production, consumption and distribution of cooking wares, and particularly between political authority and the location of workshops in the early I slamic V ega of G ranada, a region in south‐eastern S pain. This work offers the possibility of testing the potential of thin section petrography in combinati…
Plain Pottery and Social Landscapes
This paper focuses on plain, stylistically unvaried pottery from three Late Neolithic sites from the Mondego Plateau, Portugal, and investigates ceramic production and exchange among small‐scale prehistoric societies by means of thin‐section petrography and chemical analysis (INAA). The results show that the majority of the pottery was made with widely available, granite‐derived sedimentary clays, but petrographic differences between fabrics indi…
A World of Goods
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
On Statistical Approaches to the Study of Ceramic Artefacts Using Geochemical and Petrographic Data
The scientific analysis of ceramics often has the aim of identifying groups of similar artefacts. Much published work focuses on analysis of data derived from geochemical or mineralogical techniques. The former is more likely to be subjected to quantitative statistical analysis. This paper examines some approaches to the statistical analysis of data arising from both kinds of techniques, including ‘mixed‐mode’ methods where both types of data are…
Group Therapy in Crete
Chemical and Mineralogical Alteration of Ceramics from A Late Bronze Age Kiln At Kommos, Crete
The formation of reference groups comprises an important procedure in chemical provenance studies of archaeological pottery. Material from ancient kilns is thought to be especially suitable for reference groups, as it comprises a definite unit of past production. Pottery from the Late Minoan IA kiln excavated at Kommos, Crete was analysed in order to produce a reference group in this important area of Minoan ceramic production. The samples were c…
Mechanical Performance of Quartz‐tempered Ceramics
The effect of quartz temper on the physical and mechanical properties of clay ceramics and the elucidation of the underlying mechanisms that are responsible for these effects are presented here. Characteristics studied included bulk density, open and closed porosity, density of impervious portion and fracture morphology. Mechanical behaviour was studied by measuring energy dissipation during fracture, Young's modulus, initial fracture toughness a…
A World of Goods
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…
Consuming power
A new study of Kamares ware, integrating stylistic and petrographic analysis, suggests that Protopalatial Knossos was a centre of ritual consumption rather than production, obtaining some of its specialized vessels for drinking and feasting ceremonies from production centres elsewhere in central Crete
Keeping an eye on your pots
Petrographic and Chemical Characterization of Pottery Production of the Late Minoan I Kiln at Haghia Triada, Crete
Pottery from the Late Minoan I kiln at Haghia Triada in the Mesara Plain, southern Crete, was analysed by a range of techniques, comprising thin‐section petrography, scanning electron microscopy, X‐ray diffraction, X‐ray fluorescence and neutron activation analysis. The project characterizes the ceramic fabrics and probable raw materials, correlates paste recipes with shape, reconstructs the firing conditions of the kiln and establishes a chemica…
Reconstructing change in firing technology during the Final Neolithic–Early Bronze Age transition in Phaistos, Crete. Just the tip of the iceberg
Changes in firing practice have been suggested as representing a revolution in ceramic technology at the beginning of the Bronze Age in Crete. The introduction of kiln structures has been held responsible for such a change, perhaps by newcomers to the island, along with other innovative technologies. However, these hypotheses were often based on limited analytical data and mostly on macroscopic examination. This paper re-examines the suggestion o…
Ceramic regionalism in Prepalatial Central Crete
This article presents results obtained through detailed stylistic analysis of a body of EM I–EM II A pottery at Knossos in association with a programme of petrographic analysis and scanning electron microscopy. From the Knossian ceramic assemblage, four specific ware groups were chosen for this study on the basis of shape, decoration, and fabric: fine painted, fine grey, painted semi-fine to coarse, and slipped and burnished. It is argued here, o…
Production and exchange of the earliest ceramic vessels in the Aegean
status: Published
Goddesses, Snake Tubes, and Plaques
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 75, Number 2, April-June 2006
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…
Exploring automatic grouping procedures in ceramic petrology
Roman Glass‐making at Coppergate, York? Analytical Evidence for the Nature of Production
Ceramic vessels and associated vitreous debris, excavated at Coppergate, York, UK, have been interpreted as the remains of Roman glass‐making from the raw materials. This paper reports the results of analysis of this assemblage by XRF, ICPS, XRD, SEM– EDAX and thin‐section petrography. These findings suggest that some ceramic vessels, used as crucibles, have been subjected to temperatures up to 1200°C, well above the firing temperatures of the lo…
Portable ED-XRF as a tool for optimizing sampling strategy
Calcareous Microfossils in Bronze Age Aegean Ceramics
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…
On Statistical Approaches to the Study of Ceramic Artefacts Using Geochemical and Petrographic Data
The scientific analysis of ceramics often has the aim of identifying groups of similar artefacts. Much published work focuses on analysis of data derived from geochemical or mineralogical techniques. The former is more likely to be subjected to quantitative statistical analysis. This paper examines some approaches to the statistical analysis of data arising from both kinds of techniques, including ‘mixed‐mode’ methods where both types of data are…
Petrographic and Chemical Analysis of the Inscribed and other Stirrup Jars from Malia
Jones R Richard, Day Peter. Petrographic and Chemical Analysis of the Inscribed and other Stirrup Jars from Malia. In: Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. Volume 115, livraison 1, 1991. pp. 94-97
Excavation of a Bronze Age Funerary Cairn at Manor Farm, near Borwick, North Lancashire
The excavation of a large circular dished earthwork near Carnforth, North Lancashire, in 1982, has revealed a substantial Bronze Age funerary monument. The earliest structure was a sub-rectangular enclosure of limestone boulders dated to c. 1740–1640 BC cal. and associated with parts of two poorly preserved inhumation burials lying on the previously cleared ground surface. Both burials were accompanied by typologically early metalwork. The centra…
Technological change and cultural resistance among southeast Iberian potters
Plus ça change
Central Mediterranean Phoenician pottery imports in the Northeastern Iberian Peninsula
Plain Pottery and Social Landscapes
This paper focuses on plain, stylistically unvaried pottery from three Late Neolithic sites from the Mondego Plateau, Portugal, and investigates ceramic production and exchange among small‐scale prehistoric societies by means of thin‐section petrography and chemical analysis (INAA). The results show that the majority of the pottery was made with widely available, granite‐derived sedimentary clays, but petrographic differences between fabrics indi…
EM I chronology and social practice
This article presents a stylistic assessment of the pottery from early tests (1900–1905) at Knossos that may be assigned to EM I. There follows a discussion of the problems of ceramic phasing of EM I Knossos and the relative chronology of Central Crete with the South Aegean in EB I. Finally, the social context of ceramic consumption at EM I Knossos and North-Central Crete is explored, and the possible evidence this may provide for ritualised soci…
Early Helladic I and Talioti Pottery
This paper discusses the analysis of Early Bronze Age ‘Talioti’‐style ceramics found at sites in the Argolid and Corinthia, in the north‐east Peloponnese of mainland Greece. It presents the results of an integrated methodology that addresses questions relating to the potential sources of raw materials, the identification of potting practices, and the exchange of such vessels during the Early Bronze Age period. The work places site‐based results w…
The Royal Society's Expedition to Tristan da Cunha, 1962
The petrographie study of the ceramics
The fragmentary assemblage was analysed by various techniques, mostly based on pétrographie methods, the results of which are summarised. The analyses generated data which are applicable to on-site spatial and chronological problems, in addition to those concerning characterisation and provenance study. Macroscopic examination of pottery from each individual scatter and ceramic spot finds was undertaken to establish the extent of variation within…
Excavation of a Bronze Age Funerary Cairn at Manor Farm, near Borwick, North Lancashire
The excavation of a large circular dished earthwork near Carnforth, North Lancashire, in 1982, has revealed a substantial Bronze Age funerary monument. The earliest structure was a sub-rectangular enclosure of limestone boulders dated to c. 1740–1640 BC cal. and associated with parts of two poorly preserved inhumation burials lying on the previously cleared ground surface. Both burials were accompanied by typologically early metalwork. The centra…
Petrographic and Chemical Analysis of the Inscribed and other Stirrup Jars from Malia
Jones R Richard, Day Peter. Petrographic and Chemical Analysis of the Inscribed and other Stirrup Jars from Malia. In: Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. Volume 115, livraison 1, 1991. pp. 94-97
Early Minoan and Middle Minoan pottery groups at Knossos
This paper is a summary of the results of a workshop held at Knossos in August 1992. The aims of the workshop were to examine the most coherent and reliable deposits, place them in a chronological sequence, and decide on common terminologies and definitions. This brief paper provides a framework and serves as a common introduction to various detailed studies of Knossian EM–MM pottery by the various authors which have appeared, are in press, or ar…
Ceramic regionalism in Prepalatial Central Crete
This article presents results obtained through detailed stylistic analysis of a body of EM I–EM II A pottery at Knossos in association with a programme of petrographic analysis and scanning electron microscopy. From the Knossian ceramic assemblage, four specific ware groups were chosen for this study on the basis of shape, decoration, and fabric: fine painted, fine grey, painted semi-fine to coarse, and slipped and burnished. It is argued here, o…
Natural insecticides and insect repellents in antiquity
A. Bernard Knapp & John F. Cherry. Provenience studies and Bronze Age Cyprus
A. Bernard Knapp & John F. Cherry. Provenience studies and Bronze Age Cyprus:production, exchange and politico-economic change. (Monographs in World Archaeology 21.) xiv+280 pages, 49 figures, 17 tables. 1994. Madison (WI): Prehistory Press; 1-881094-10-3 paperback $33. - Volume 70 Issue 269
A lepidopterous cocoon from Thera and evidence for silk in the Aegean Bronze Age
What were the fine garments vividly painted in the Minoan frescoes made of? Fine cotton (cotton from Egypt is still prized today)? Or the yet finer fabric of silk? And if silk, where did the stuff, or knowledge of cultivating the silk-worms, come from? A cocoon from Santorini offers new evidence
Mechanical Performance of Quartz‐tempered Ceramics
The effect of quartz temper on the physical and mechanical properties of clay ceramics and the elucidation of the underlying mechanisms that are responsible for these effects are presented here. Characteristics studied included bulk density, open and closed porosity, density of impervious portion and fracture morphology. Mechanical behaviour was studied by measuring energy dissipation during fracture, Young's modulus, initial fracture toughness a…
Consuming power
A new study of Kamares ware, integrating stylistic and petrographic analysis, suggests that Protopalatial Knossos was a centre of ritual consumption rather than production, obtaining some of its specialized vessels for drinking and feasting ceremonies from production centres elsewhere in central Crete
Group Therapy in Crete
EM II B ware groups at Knossos
This article presents a descriptive analysis, both stylistic and petrographic, of the wares which define EM II B at Knossos based on pottery from deposits beneath the EM III South Front House excavated by Evans and Mackenzie in 1907–08. A classificatory system based on ware and fabric is used here as a means of investigating questions of location, technology and traditions of ceramic production, all key aspects in reconstructing socio-economic or…
EM I chronology and social practice
This article presents a stylistic assessment of the pottery from early tests (1900–1905) at Knossos that may be assigned to EM I. There follows a discussion of the problems of ceramic phasing of EM I Knossos and the relative chronology of Central Crete with the South Aegean in EB I. Finally, the social context of ceramic consumption at EM I Knossos and North-Central Crete is explored, and the possible evidence this may provide for ritualised soci…
Analysis of Ceramics from the Kiln
Appendix I
Louise Joyner, Peter M. Day, Appendix I: The Kommos LM IA Kiln: Petrographic Fabric Descriptions, Hesperia Supplements, Vol. 30, A LM IA Ceramic Kiln in South-Central Crete: Function and Pottery Production (2001), pp. 139-155
Conclusion
Chemical and Mineralogical Alteration of Ceramics from A Late Bronze Age Kiln At Kommos, Crete
The formation of reference groups comprises an important procedure in chemical provenance studies of archaeological pottery. Material from ancient kilns is thought to be especially suitable for reference groups, as it comprises a definite unit of past production. Pottery from the Late Minoan IA kiln excavated at Kommos, Crete was analysed in order to produce a reference group in this important area of Minoan ceramic production. The samples were c…
Production and exchange of the earliest ceramic vessels in the Aegean
status: Published
Roman Glass‐making at Coppergate, York? Analytical Evidence for the Nature of Production
Ceramic vessels and associated vitreous debris, excavated at Coppergate, York, UK, have been interpreted as the remains of Roman glass‐making from the raw materials. This paper reports the results of analysis of this assemblage by XRF, ICPS, XRD, SEM– EDAX and thin‐section petrography. These findings suggest that some ceramic vessels, used as crucibles, have been subjected to temperatures up to 1200°C, well above the firing temperatures of the lo…
Exploring automatic grouping procedures in ceramic petrology
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…
Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete. Volume 2
Goddesses, Snake Tubes, and Plaques
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 75, Number 2, April-June 2006
Petrographic and Chemical Characterization of Pottery Production of the Late Minoan I Kiln at Haghia Triada, Crete
Pottery from the Late Minoan I kiln at Haghia Triada in the Mesara Plain, southern Crete, was analysed by a range of techniques, comprising thin‐section petrography, scanning electron microscopy, X‐ray diffraction, X‐ray fluorescence and neutron activation analysis. The project characterizes the ceramic fabrics and probable raw materials, correlates paste recipes with shape, reconstructs the firing conditions of the kiln and establishes a chemica…
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