Identification of Pottery‐Forming Techniques using Quantitative Analysis of the Orientation of Inclusions and Voids in Thin Sections

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ID8352145
AutoresRichard Thér (0000-0001-6253-5148, University of Hradec Králové, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume58
Fascículo2
Páginas222-238
Data de publicação2016-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoArchaeometry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0003-813X • E-ISSN: 1475-4754
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/arcm.12166
OpenAlexW1940583064
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas41
Referências citadas37

The relationship between forming techniques and orientation of the components of ceramic materials in the context of pottery technology has long been recognized and used for identification of the techniques employed to create archaeological ceramics. The alignment of inclusions is usually characterized by qualitative categories or ordinal scales. This paper evaluates the potential of quantitative orientation analysis for identification of pottery‐forming techniques. A collection of experimental pottery formed using five forming techniques and combined techniques was analysed. The forming techniques were characterized by the intervals of the mean direction and the circular standard deviations of the orientation of the major axes of the ellipses equivalent to the objects representing random sections of inclusions and voids. The most informative criteria for the identification of pottery techniques are the circular standard deviation of the inclusion/void orientations in the core area of the vessel wall in a perpendicular thin section and the mean direction in a tangential section

Archaeology · Ceramic · Composite material · Ellipse · Geography · Geometry · Identification (biology) · Mineralogy · Orientation (vector space) · Pottery · Thin section · Void (composites) · 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage · Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis · Geology · Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction · Materials Science · Mathematics