Tracing pottery-making recipes in the prehistoric Balkans 6th-4th millennia BC / / edited by Silvia Amicone [and four others].

• Superior document: Archaeopress archaeology
• TeilnehmendeR: Amicone, Silvia,
• Place / Publishing House: Summertown, Oxford : : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd,, [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Archaeopress archaeology.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (198 pages).

Tracing Pottery-Making Recipes in the Prehistoric Balkans 6th?4th Millennia BC' is a collection of twelve chapters that capture the variety of current archaeological, ethnographic, experimental and scientific studies on Balkan prehistoric ceramic production, distribution and use. The Balkans is a culturally rich area at the present day as it was in the past. Pottery and other ceramics represent an ideal tool with which to examine this diversity and interpret its human and environmental origins. Consequently, Balkan ceramic studies is an emerging field within archaeology that serves as a testing ground for theories on topics such as technological know-how, innovation, craft tradition, cultural transmission, interaction, trade and exchange. This book brings together diverse studies by leading researchers and upcoming scholars on material from numerous Balkan countries and chronological periods that tackle these and other topics for the first time. It is a valuable resource for anyone working on Balkan archaeology and also of interest to those working on archaeological pottery from other parts of the world.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents Page -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Participants at the workshop Tracing Pottery-Making Recipes in the Prehistoric Balkans -- 6th-4th Millennia BC (picture by Milica Rajičić). -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Tracing Pottery-Making Recipes in the Prehistoric Balkans, 6th-4th Millennia BC -- Silvia Amicone -- Chapter 1 -- Figure 1: The distribution of pottery-making using the hand-wheel in the western Balkans. -- Figure 2: Dževad Delić with his clay and calcite stores at Malešići in 2015. -- Figure 3: Sorting crushed calcite at Malešići before grinding and sieving prior to mixing. -- Figure 4: Dževad Delić mixing clay and calcite at Malešići in 2015. -- Figure 5: Forming a calcite-tempered vessel at Malešići by coil-building and throwing. -- Figure 7: Fired pots at Malešići in 2015. -- Figure 8: Coil-building on a hand-wheel at Potravlje. -- Figure 9: Dušan Knežević with freshly made pots at Potravlje in 2004. -- Figure10: Firing pots at Potravlje in 1995. -- Figure 11: The workshops of Stipe Bejić (above) and Pero Gavran at Ularice-Bejići in 2015. -- Figure 12: The enclosed firing place of Pero Gavran in 2015 (above) and rebuilt in 2016. -- Figure 13: Pero Gavran with over-fired pottery wasters dumped close to his workshop in 2015. -- Figure 14: The kiln of Milan Savić at Zlakusa and fired pots, some displaying damage caused by over-firing (2017). -- Tempering Expectations: What Do West Balkan Potters Think They Are Doing? -- Richard Carlton -- Chapter 2 -- Figure 1: Digging clay for bread-baking pans. -- Figure 2: Transport of clay on the back. -- Figure 3: Treading bread-baking pans. -- Figure 4: Modelling a bread-baking pan. -- Figure 5: Modelling a bread-baking pan. -- Figure 6: Coating a bread-baking pan with diluted cow dung.

Figure 10: Bread baking in a bread-oven. -- Figure 8: Putting glowing embers directly on bread dough. -- Figure 9: Bread baked in a bread-baking pan. -- Figure 11: A bread-baking pan after having been used for the first time. -- Making and Using Bread-Baking Pans: Ethnoarchaeological Research in Serbia -- Biljana Djordjević -- Chapter 3 -- Figure 1: Distribution of Late Eneolithic cultures Varna, Kodjadermen-Gumelniţa-Karanovo VI and Krivodol-Sălcuţa I-II-Bubanj Hum Ia. Settlements mentioned in the text: (1) Varna -- (2) Devnya -- (3) Provadia -- (4) Golyamo Delchevo -- (5) Vinitsa -- (6) Smyadovo -- ( -- Figure 2: Chart of diameter lengths of Early (2) and Late (1) Eneolithic plates -- x: vessel count -- y: rim diameter, cm -- 1a: table ware -- 1b: kitchen ware (drawing by P. Georgieva). -- Figure 3: Early (1-3) and Late (4-5) Eneolithic plates (1-3 after Chohadzhiev 2006, 125:2 -- 135: 3, 4 -- 4 after Berciu 1961, 123:2 -- 5 drawing by P. Georgieva). -- Figure 4: Early (1-4) and Late Eneolithic (5-8) amphora-like vessels (1-4 after Chohadzhiev 2006, 123: 1, 4 -- 127:4 -- 133:7 -- 5-8 drawing by P. Georgieva). -- Figure 5: Chart of the sizes of Late (1) and Early (2) Eneolithic amphora-like vessels with two vertically placed handles -- x: rim diameter, cm -- y: height, cm (drawing by P. Georgieva). -- Figure 6: A potter's workshop from a Late Eneolithic settlement at Kozareva Mogila. Two stages of exploration (1, 3) and reconstruction variants (4) of a potter's kiln, wares (2), and lumps of clay (5) used for shaping wares and found by the kiln (photo b -- Figure 7: Fragment of the upper part of the vault of the kiln (photo by P. Georgieva). -- Figure 8: Fragments of a plate from the inner part of the firing chamber of the kiln (photo by P. Georgieva). -- Chapter 3 -- Table 1: Vinitsa: Distribution of vessels and lids by building.

On the Organisation of Ceramic Production within the Kodjadermen-Gumelniţa-Karanovo VI, Varna, and Krivodol-Sălcuţa-Bubanj Hum Ia Cultures -- Petya Georgieva -- Chapter 4 -- Figure 1: Map of the sites mentioned in the text. -- Figure 2: Metric Multidimensional scaling plot of the similarity between Džuljunica phases I and II and a sample of other Neolithic ceramic assemblages. Pairwise similarities were calculated using the Jaccard Index which measures similarity between a fini -- Figure 3: Photomicrographs of petrographic fabric groups. Images taken in crossed polars. Image width = 1.5 mm. -- Figure 4: Red-slip layer on sample 33. Images taken in crossed polars (XP) (A) and plane polarised light (PPL) (B). Image width = 1.5 mm. -- Chapter 4 -- Table 1: Descriptions of the phase codes and main publications. -- Table 2: Descriptions of sherds and fabric types. -- Clay Recipes, Pottery Typologies and the Neolithisation of Southeast Europe A Case Study from Džuljunica-Smărdeš, Bulgaria -- Beatrijs de Groot -- Chapter 5 -- Figure 1: Geographical location of Balatonszárszó-Kis-erdei-dűlő in Hungary and the excavated area. -- Figure 2: Style groups of pottery at Balatonszárszó. -- Figure 3: Main pottery form groups at Balatonszárszó. -- Figure 4: Fabrics of conical forms. a: Fabric 1a (Sample 92.), b: Fabric 2a (Sample 398.), c: Fabric 2b (Sample 136.), d: Fabric 2c (Sample 300.), e: Fabric 2d (Sample 301.). All micrographs are XP. -- Figure 5: Fabrics of semi-spherical vessels. a: Fabric 2b (Sample 223.), b: Fabric 2c (Sample 431.), c: Fabric 2d (Sample 390.). All micrographs are XP. -- Figure 6: Fabrics of large globular forms. a: Fabric 1a (Sample 282.), b: Fabric 2b (Sample 447.), c: Fabric 2d (Sample 288.), d: Fabric 3 (Sample 359.). All micrographs are XP.

Figure 7: Fabrics of biconical and globular forms. a: Fabric 1b (Sample 303.), b: Fabric 1a (Sample 206.), c: Fabric 2a (Sample 357.), d: Fabric 2b (Sample 367.). e: Fabric 2d (Sample 167.). All micrographs are XP. -- Chapter 5 -- Table 1: Distribution of conical vessel forms according to fabric groups during the early, transitional (style group 3) and late LBK pottery of Balatonszárszó. -- Table 2: Distribution of semi-spherical vessel forms according to fabric groups during the early, transitional (style group 3) and late LBK pottery of Balatonszárszó. -- Table 3: Distribution of large globular vessel forms according to fabric groups during the early, transitional (style group 3) and late LBK pottery of Balatonszárszó. -- Table 4: Distribution of biconical and globular vessel forms according to fabric groups during the early, transitional (style group 3) and late LBK pottery of Balatonszárszó. -- Looking into Pots: Understanding Neolithic Ceramic Technological Variability from Western Hungary -- Attila Kreiter -- Krisztián Oross -- Péter Pánczél -- Tibor Marton -- Chapter 6 -- Table 1: A summary of the results of organic residue analyses on sampled sherds (the analyses were conducted at the University of Bradford, UK, the Division of Archaeological, Geographical and Environmental Sciences). -- Chapter 6 -- Figure 1: A map of Croatia with sites that provided sampled and analysed pottery sherds: 1) Vučedol near Vukovar -- 2) Ervenica in Vinkovci -- 3) Damića gradina in Stari Mikanovci -- 4) Tomašanci-Palača near Đakovo -- 5) Franjevac near Đakovo (map: www. ginkomaps -- Figure 2: Types of the vessels analysed by the GC-MS (source: the authors).

Figure 3: Total ion chromatogram produced by the residue from the interior (a) and the exterior (b) of sherd ER 1 (Vučedol culture). Cx:y - fatty acid with x carbon atoms and y double bonds, br indicates a branched fatty acid with y carbon atoms -- xM - mon -- Figure 4: Chart showing the abundance of the main fatty acids, squalene and cholesterol in the residues (after Steele 2011) from sherd ER 1 of the Vučedol culture (photo: I. Miloglav). -- Figure 5: Total ion chromatogram produced by the residue from the interior (a) and the exterior surface (b) of sherd DG 1 (Vučedol culture). Cx:y - fatty acid with x carbon atoms and y double bonds -- xM - monoacylglycerol incorporating a fatty acid with x -- Figure 6: Chart showing the abundance of long chain fatty acids, long chain alcohols and alkanes in the interior residue from sherd DG 1 and the soil associated with the sherd (after Steele 2011) belonging to the Vučedol culture (photo: I. Miloglav). -- Figure 7: Total ion chromatogram produced by the residue from the interior and the exterior of sherd TP 3 (after Stern 2011b) ascribed to the Starčevo culture (drawing: K. Rončević). -- Figure 8: Total ion chromatogram produced by the residue from the interior and the exterior of the sherd FR 10 ascribed to the Kostolac culture (after Stern 2011a). -- Figure 10: Total ion chromatogram produced by the residue from the interior and the exterior of sherd ER 5 (after Stern 2011b) ascribed to the Vučedol culture (photo: I. Miloglav). -- Figure 9: The storage vessel (amphora), belonging to the Kostolac culture, from which the sample was taken for GC-MS analysis (FR 10) (photo: J. Balen). -- Organic Residue and Vessel Function Analysis from Five Neolithic and Eneolithic Sites in Eastern Croatia -- Ina Miloglav -- Jacqueline Balen -- Chapter 7 -- Figure 1: Map of the Banat area.

Figure 2: Map showing main material cultures during the Late Neolithic in the Vojvodina area.