Long before pottery, before agriculture, when the first villages took shape, people in the Levant were already molding clay ...

Digital archaeology increasingly harnesses computational techniques to advance our understanding of pottery from archaeological contexts. By integrating 3D scanning, photogrammetry, and advanced image ...

A study led by the University of Bristol recently found that Neolithic pottery has preserved clues about humanity’s earliest relationships with grains—dating back thousands of years earlier than ...

Archaeological ceramics and pottery production constitute an interdisciplinary field that deciphers the technological practices and cultural traditions of past societies. Fundamental to this research ...

Ceramic pots endure the corrosive effects of thousands of years, and organic remains preserved inside its pores can shed light on the culture, values, diets, and daily life of societies. This research ...

Part I. History and potential. 1. History of pottery studies -- 2. The potential of pottery as archaeological evidence -- Part II. Practicalities : a guide to pottery processing and recording. -- 3.

The tomb belonged to an individual of high status within their community, from an important lineage in the Rio Grande area, ...

An Egyptian-German archaeological mission has unearthed a staggering 13,000 inscribed pottery fragments, known as ostraca, at the ancient site of Athribis in Sohag, Upper Egypt, including over 130 ...

Plantlike designs on pottery made almost 8,000 years ago may be the earliest evidence yet of mathematical thinking. Many of the flower decorations painted on pottery by an ancient culture in northern ...

Thin section petrography, geochemistry, scanning electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction are key scientific methods used to investigate the raw materials, origins and production technology of ...

NAPLES, ITALY—Artnet News reports that continuing excavations in Pompeii at the Civita Giuliana has uncovered a collection of pottery in what may have been the villa’s servants’ quarters. The bowls ...

Israel acknowledged on Friday that an inscription in clay found in the country's south bearing the name of Darius the Great, ruler of the ancient Persian Empire, was not authentic. The shard of ...