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Table of Contents:
List of illustrations...vii List of tables...xi Contributors...xii Foreword by Simon Keay...xvi David Peacock 1939-2015 by Michael Fulford...xx Editors' Introduction...xxx Chapter 1. Context is Everything: Early Pottery, Hunter-Gatherers...1 and the Interpretation of Technological Choices in Eastern Siberia Peter M. Hommel, Peter M. Day, Peter Jordan and Viktor M. Vetrov Chapter 2. The Social Life of Clay: A Metaphysical Characterisation...19 of Ceramics through Petrographic Analysis Imogen Wood Chapter 3. Revealing Complexity: The Sourcing of Early Neolithic...42 Ceramics in South-West Britain Henrietta Quinnell and Roger Taylor Chapter 4. Phytolith Analysis of Ceramic Thin-Sections. First...57 Taphonomical Insights from Experiments with Vegetal Tempering Akos Peto and Luc Vrydaghs Chapter 5. Taking the Rough with the Smooth: Using Automated...74 SEM-EDS to Integrate Coarse and Fine Ceramic Assemblages in the Bronze Age Aegean Jill Hilditch, Duncan Pirrie, Carl Knappett, Nicoletta Momigliano and Gavyn Rollinson Chapter 6. Visualisation, Quantitative Mineralogy and Matrix-...97 Inclusion Separation of Pottery using QEMSCAN: Examples of Medieval and Post-Medieval Pottery from Somerset Jens Andersen, Gavyn Rollinson and David Dawson Chapter 7. Non-Destructive Analysis of Samian Ware from Scottish...118 Military Sites Richard Jones and Louisa Campbell Chapter 8. Fired Fingers: Investigating Pottery Production through...137 Finger Imprints Yvonne de Rue Chapter 9. Same but Different: Revisiting Ceramic Variation...152 Sarah Coxon Chapter 10. A Picture Says a Thousand Words? Decoration, Effect...170 and Medieval Pottery Ben Jervis Chapter 11. Experiencing Lustre: Polynomial Texture Mapping of...186 Medieval Pottery at The Fitzwilliam Museum Rebecca Bridgman and Graeme Earl Chapter 12. Vessel Volumes and Visualisation: Innovative Computer...199 Applications for Ceramicists Matt Brudenell, Vicki Herring and Donald Horne Chapter 13. Pots and Pies: Adventures into the Archaeology...221 of Eating Habits in Byzantium Joanita Vroom Chapter 14. The Resonance of Gabbroic Clay in Contemporary...245 Ceramic Works Helen Marton Chapter 15. 'Hold Your Beliefs Lightly': Innovation and Best Practice...253 in Prehistoric, Roman and Post-Roman Ceramic Studies in Britain Jane Evans, Duncan Brown and David Knight Index...270

About the Author :
Dr Emilie Sibbesson is senior lecturer in prehistoric archaeology at Canterbury Christ Church University. She specialises in Neolithic archaeology, food technology, and prehistoric ceramics. She is co-editor of Neolithic Bodies (Oxbow, in prep.) and has contributed to two major food studies encyclopaedias: Food Issues (ed. Ken Albala, SAGE Reference 2015) and Archaeology of Food (eds. K. Metheny & M. Beaudry, Rowman & Littlefield 2015). She is secretary of the Prehistoric Ceramics Research Group and has led scientific analysis of pottery assemblages from a series of Neolithic sites in East Anglia, Oxfordshire, and Gloucestershire. Dr Ben Jervis is lecturer in medieval archaeology at Cardiff University, where he specialises in the study of medieval archaeology and material culture. He is the author of Pottery and Social Life in Medieval England: Towards a relational approach (Oxbow, 2014) and co-editor of Objects, Environment and Everyday Life in Medieval Europe (Brepols, 2016), Food and Drink in Archaeology 4 (Prospect Books, 2015) and Make-do and Mend: Archaeologies of Compromise, Repair and Re-use (BAR, 2012). He has been involved in the analysis of major pottery assemblages from the Anglo-Saxon sites at Bishopstone (East Sussex) and Lyminge (Kent) as well as medieval pottery from excavations in Southampton. He was also pottery specialist for the Noviodunum Archaeological Project (Romania). Dr Sarah Coxon is a heritage tourism adviser for a leading archaeological tour operator in the UK. She specialises in the Bronze Age archaeology of Central Europe and the Northern Balkans. She was a member of the HERA funded Creativity in the Bronze Age (CinBA) project and has contributed to Creativity in the Bronze Age (Cambridge University Press, in prep.). In addition she has worked for many years as a pottery specialist at the Bronze Age tell site of Szazhalombatta in Hungary.

Review :
This is a valuable volume, which acknowledges David Peacock's lifetime of innovative and important work and is divided into fifteen detailed chapters written by no less than thirty-one experts from the glitterati of the UK and overseas world of archaeological ceramics.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780992633646
  • Publisher: The Highfield Press Southampton
  • Publisher Imprint: The Highfield Press Southampton
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 220
  • Sub Title: New Light on Archaeological Ceramics
  • ISBN-10: 0992633648
  • Publisher Date: 15 Feb 2016
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 153 mm


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