- The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Ceramic Analysis
- Acknowledgments
- List of Figures
- List of tables
- List of plates
- List of abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction to the Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Ceramic Analysis
- History of Scientific Research
- Designing Rigorous Research: Integrating Science and Archaeology
- Evaluating Data: Uncertainty in Ceramic Analysis
- Statistical Modeling for Ceramic Analysis
- Recycling Data: Working with Published and Unpublished Ceramic Compositional Data
- Ceramic Raw Materials
- Ceramic Manufacture: The <i>chaîne opératoire</i> Approach
- The Organization of Pottery Production: Toward a Relational Approach
- Provenance Studies: Productions and Compositional Groups
- Mineralogical and Chemical Alteration
- Formal Analysis and Typological Classification in the Study of Ancient Pottery
- Fabric Description of Archaeological Ceramics
- Analytical Drawing
- Petrography: Optical Microscopy
- Ceramic Micropalaeontology
- Electron Microprobe Analysis (EMPA)
- Isotope Analysis
- X-Ray Powder Diffraction (XRPD)
- X-Ray Fluorescence-Energy Dispersive (ED-XRF) and Wavelength Dispersive (WD-XRF) Spectrometry
- Handheld Portable Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (pXRF)
- Particle Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE) and Its Applications for Ceramic Analysis
- Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) and Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS)
- Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA) in the Study of Archaeological Ceramics
- Synchrotron Radiation
- Ethnography
- Experimental Firing and Re-firing
- Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR) in Archaeological Ceramic Analysis
- Raman Spectroscopy and the Study of Ceramic Manufacture: Possibilities, Results, and Challenges
- X-Radiography of Archaeological Ceramics
- Organic Inclusions
- Formal Typology of Iberian Ceramic Vessels by Morphometric Analysis
- Mechanical and Thermal Properties
- Assessing Vessel Function by Organic Residue Analysis
- Typology and Classification
- Direct Dating Methods
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
The systematic arrangement of empirical evidence is the necessary premise of any archaeological enquiry. If the process that generated an observed pattern has to be investigated, archaeologists need to choose scales and units of analysis that are appropriate for their specific context and the relative research questions. Typology, classification, and grouping techniques were developed in the last century so that archaeological datasets could be ordered and analyzed. This chapter provides an overview of the most relevant approaches to archaeological sorting. By presenting the history and development of the notion type, the emergence of diverging trends in archaeological thought is discussed. A brief digression on the basic tenets that link pottery typology to relative dating techniques is followed by an overview of the many, possible approaches to pottery description.
Keywords: classification, grouping, dating techniques, archaeological sorting, pottery typology
CaSEs Research Group (Complexity and Socio-Ecological Dynamics) Dept. of Archaeology and Anthropology IMF-CSIC, Spanish National Research Council
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- The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Ceramic Analysis
- Acknowledgments
- List of Figures
- List of tables
- List of plates
- List of abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction to the Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Ceramic Analysis
- History of Scientific Research
- Designing Rigorous Research: Integrating Science and Archaeology
- Evaluating Data: Uncertainty in Ceramic Analysis
- Statistical Modeling for Ceramic Analysis
- Recycling Data: Working with Published and Unpublished Ceramic Compositional Data
- Ceramic Raw Materials
- Ceramic Manufacture: The <i>chaîne opératoire</i> Approach
- The Organization of Pottery Production: Toward a Relational Approach
- Provenance Studies: Productions and Compositional Groups
- Mineralogical and Chemical Alteration
- Formal Analysis and Typological Classification in the Study of Ancient Pottery
- Fabric Description of Archaeological Ceramics
- Analytical Drawing
- Petrography: Optical Microscopy
- Ceramic Micropalaeontology
- Electron Microprobe Analysis (EMPA)
- Isotope Analysis
- X-Ray Powder Diffraction (XRPD)
- X-Ray Fluorescence-Energy Dispersive (ED-XRF) and Wavelength Dispersive (WD-XRF) Spectrometry
- Handheld Portable Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (pXRF)
- Particle Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE) and Its Applications for Ceramic Analysis
- Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) and Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS)
- Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA) in the Study of Archaeological Ceramics
- Synchrotron Radiation
- Ethnography
- Experimental Firing and Re-firing
- Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR) in Archaeological Ceramic Analysis
- Raman Spectroscopy and the Study of Ceramic Manufacture: Possibilities, Results, and Challenges
- X-Radiography of Archaeological Ceramics
- Organic Inclusions
- Formal Typology of Iberian Ceramic Vessels by Morphometric Analysis
- Mechanical and Thermal Properties
- Assessing Vessel Function by Organic Residue Analysis
- Typology and Classification
- Direct Dating Methods
- Index
