Ancient Ceramics

Author : Yumi Park Huntington,Dean E. Arnold,Johanna Minich
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813052410

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Ceramics of Ancient America by Yumi Park Huntington,Dean E. Arnold,Johanna Minich Pdf

This is the first volume to bring together archaeology, anthropology, and art history in the analysis of pre-Columbian pottery. While previous research on ceramic artifacts has been divided by these three disciplines, this volume shows how integrating these approaches provides new understandings of many different aspects of Ancient American societies. Contributors from a variety of backgrounds in these fields explore what ceramics can reveal about ancient social dynamics, trade, ritual, politics, innovation, iconography, and regional styles. Essays identify supernatural and humanistic beliefs through formal analysis of Lower Mississippi Valley "Great Serpent" effigy vessels and Ecuadorian depictions of the human figure. They discuss the cultural identity conveyed by imagery such as Andean head motifs, and they analyze symmetry in designs from locations including the American Southwest. Chapters also take diachronic approaches—methods that track change over time—to ceramics from Mexico’s Tarascan State and the Valley of Oaxaca, as well as from Maya and Toltec societies. This volume provides a much-needed multidisciplinary synthesis of current scholarship on Ancient American ceramics. It is a model of how different research perspectives can together illuminate the relationship between these material artifacts and their broader human culture. Contributors: | Dean Arnold | George J. Bey III | Michael Carrasco | David Dye | James Farmer | Gary Feinman | Amy Hirshman | Yumi Park Huntington | Johanna Minich | Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski | Jeff Price | Sarahh Scher | Dorothy Washburn | Robert F. Wald

Author : Henry Beauchamp Walters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Mythology, Classical
ISBN : UOM:39015005357713

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History of Ancient Pottery by Henry Beauchamp Walters Pdf

Author : Christopher B. Donnan
Publisher : University of California Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : UOM:39015049532610

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Ceramics of Ancient Peru by Christopher B. Donnan Pdf

Author : Samuel Birch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Ceramics
ISBN : HARVARD:32044033739186

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History of Ancient Pottery by Samuel Birch Pdf

Author : Trudy S. Kawami
Publisher : Harry N Abrams Incorporated
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : 0810919133

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Ancient Iranian Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections by Trudy S. Kawami Pdf

The cultures of pre-Islamic Iran gave birth to a distinctive tradition of fine ceramics that spanned at least 5000 years, from the Neolithic period to the time of Roman activity in the Near East. This is a study of that remarkable tradition.

Author : James John Aimers
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813042572

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Ancient Maya Pottery by James John Aimers Pdf

The ancient Maya produced a broad range of ceramics that has attracted concerted scholarly attention for over a century. Pottery sherds--the most abundant artifacts recovered from sites--reveal much about artistic expression, religious ritual, economic systems, cooking traditions, and cultural exchange in Maya society. Today, nearly every Maya archaeologist uses the type-variety classificatory framework for studying sherd collections. This impressive volume brings together many of the archaeologists signally involved in the analysis and interpretation of ancient Maya ceramics and represents new findings and state-of-the-art thinking. The result is a book that serves both as a valuable resource for archaeologists involved in pottery classification, analysis, and interpretation and as an illuminating exploration of ancient Mayan culture.

Author : Michela Spataro,Alexandra Villing
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782979487

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Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture by Michela Spataro,Alexandra Villing Pdf

The 23 papers presented here are the product of the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and approaches to the study of kitchen pottery between archaeologists, material scientists, historians and ethnoarchaeologists. They aim to set a vital but long-neglected category of evidence in its wider social, political and economic contexts. Structured around main themes concerning technical aspects of pottery production; cooking as socioeconomic practice; and changing tastes, culinary identities and cross-cultural encounters, a range of social economic and technological models are discussed on the basis of insights gained from the study of kitchen pottery production, use and evolution. Much discussion and work in the last decade has focussed on technical and social aspects of coarse ware and in particular kitchen ware. The chapters in this volume contribute to this debate, moving kitchen pottery beyond the Binfordian ‘technomic’ category and embracing a wider view, linking processualism, ceramic-ecology, behavioral schools, and ethnoarchaeology to research on historical developments and cultural transformations covering a broad geographical area of the Mediterranean region and spanning a long chronological sequence.

Author : Samuel Birch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Pottery
ISBN : MSU:31293009169719

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History of Ancient Pottery by Samuel Birch Pdf

Author : Richard F. Townsend,Barbara Moulard L.,Ken Kokrda,Barbara L. Moulard
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780300111484

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Casas Grandes and the Ceramic Art of the Ancient Southwest by Richard F. Townsend,Barbara Moulard L.,Ken Kokrda,Barbara L. Moulard Pdf

A fascinating exploration of the rich artistic heritage and beauty of Casas Grandes ceramics

Author : Alan Reed Sawyer,Nathan Cummings
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Indian art
ISBN : 9780870990373

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Ancient Peruvian Ceramics by Alan Reed Sawyer,Nathan Cummings Pdf

Author : Lili Fang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1184 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811990946

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The History of Chinese Ceramics by Lili Fang Pdf

Adopting the perspective of anthropology of art and combining it with global academic insights, this book helps the readers to recognize that “history is, in great measure, the record of human activity which spreads from the local to the regional, from the regional to the global, and from the global to the universal.” Readers will learn that China was not only the first country to create porcelain, but also the first to export it to the world, both the products and its techniques. Therefore, the history of Chinese ceramics reflects the history of Chinese foreign trade on the one hand and depicts the expansion of Chinese ceramic techniques and cultures on the other. In addition to ceramics types, molds, decoration, and techniques, the book analyzes the spiritual impacts and aesthetic conceptions embodied in the utensils of daily use by the Chinese literati. Therefore, it reaches the conclusion that ideological systems and not technological systems are what bring about social revolutions. In addition, the book is richly illustrated with pictures of earthenware and finely glazed pieces from later periods.

Author : P. C. Pant,Vidula Jayaswal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : UOM:39015041325625

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Ancient Ceramics by P. C. Pant,Vidula Jayaswal Pdf

In the Indian context; papers presented at a workshop organized by Banaras Hindu University.

Author : Vassilis Kilikoglou,Anno Hein,Yannis Maniatis
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015063149044

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Modern Trends in Scientific Studies on Ancient Ceramics by Vassilis Kilikoglou,Anno Hein,Yannis Maniatis Pdf

Forty-three short papers, presented at the 5th European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics held in Athens in 1999, reflect on recent archaeological and scientific developments in the anaysis of ceramics, with emphasis on pottery from the Aegean, Italy, Iberia and Central Europe.

Author : Margaret Young-Sánchez,Denise Pahl Schaan
Publisher : Denver Art Museum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Indian pottery
ISBN : 0914738739

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Marajó by Margaret Young-Sánchez,Denise Pahl Schaan Pdf

Chief curator of Pre-Columbian art at the Denver Art Museum, Young-Sanchez presents a volume to accompany the September 2011 exhibition of 13 ceramic pieces from the Marajo culture, where the earliest ceramics in the Americas have been found. Archaeologist Schaan (Federal U. of Para) also reports her findings from excavations on Marajo Island on the symbolics of Marajoara social life. The catalogue is not indexed. Distributed by University of Oklahoma Press. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Manju Kurian,Smitha Thankachan,Swapna S. Nair
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780323856331

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Ceramic Catalysts by Manju Kurian,Smitha Thankachan,Swapna S. Nair Pdf

Ceramic Catalysts: Materials, Strategies and Applications focuses on synthesis techniques and applications of ceramic materials in heterogenous catalysis. In order to enable an affordable, sustainable, low-carbon economy, research activities have been intensified in this area over recent years. The rapid accumulation of results has been evaluated and summarized by recognized experts working in their respective fields in the form of separate and complementary chapters. The first part of the book is dedicated to synthesis and catalytic applications of different categories of ceramics that include both porous ceramics and ceramic composites. Catalytic applications of ceramics mainly involving waste-water treatment, combustion reactions, and fine chemical synthesis are also discussed. Use of ceramics as catalyst supports is also given importance in the book. The book is intended to act as a valuable reference resource for both researchers and postgraduate students with key emphasis on the following areas of research: Recent techniques for the synthesis of different ceramics; specific characteristics of each type of ceramics for catalytic applications; different types of catalyzed reactions based on inherent chemical characteristics and sustainable technologies based on ceramic catalysts.The book will be an essential reference resource for industrial and academic researchers, materials scientists, chemists, and environmental scientists. Provides an extensive overview of ceramic materials involved in catalysis Presents the current state of art as tremendous progress has been achieved over recent years Contributors are at the forefront of research Provides an evaluation and comparison of the different types of ceramic materials available, including structure, properties and performance