The diversity of ceramic raw materials used in the production of Neolithic vessels in the upper Vistula basin near Krakow

• Authors: Rauba - Bukowska Anna
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Specialist analysis of ceramics helps to identify the raw material used for their production and to determine whether the material was chosen deliberately for its specific parameters. The present study of Neolithic vessels and of sampled raw materials has shown that Linear Pottery population tended to use plastic Miocene clay, but silty alluvial loam was equally popular. A comparison between the types of vessels and ceramic bodies has proven that thin-walled vessels were more often made of material with a high content of grains of silty fraction, while thick-walled vessels were usually shaped from heavy clay. This suggests that there were certain rules to be observed when preparing the paste, despite the local diversity of raw materials

Keywords

EN

early Neolithic; raw materials; ceramics; petrography; Małopolska

• Publisher: Institute of Archaeology Rzeszów University, Fundacja Rzeszowskiego Ośrodka Archeologicznego
• Journal: Analecta Archaeologica Ressoviensia
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 14
• Pages: 7–16

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Rauba - Bukowska Anna

• Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, the Polish Academy of Sciences; Sławkowska 17, 31-016 Kraków, Poland;

Identifiers

DOI

10.15584/anarres.2019.14.1