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Book Review: Scelte Tecnologiche, Expertise e Aspetti Sociali della Produzione. Una Metodologia Multidisciplinare Applicata allo Studio della Ceramica Eneolitica by Vanessa Forte

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Valeria Tiezzi 1 ✉
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This book is a welcome addition to the bookshelf of Italian archaeologists interested in Prehistory and will certainly be of great use to those who are trying to gain a good understanding of pottery technology. Written in Italian, it is one of the few books in this language dealing with ceramic technology and the social aspects of the production by presenting, as a case study, the Copper Age domestic and ...

Bird Imagery in La Tène Art

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  • Belgium

A webinar about bird imagery in the Late Iron Age in Europe and Great-Britain.

Rebecca L. Ellis, PhD student at the University of Hull, talks about birds in the La Tène art, their origins of style in Europe and the use of water birds in weaponry. Lecture in English.

Time: 8:00-10:00 PM

Pottery Chat

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  • the Netherlands


Following the Potter’s Wheel Conference in November, we will have a potter’s chat open to anybody. Discussion is open about any pottery related subject, wheel throwing, clays, ethnography, but also pottery trade, using ceramics, breakage and their archaeology.

Crafting Beyond Habitual Practices: Assessing the Production of a House Urn from Iron Age Central Italy

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Caroline Jeffra 1 ✉
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A house-shaped urn dating to the Early Iron Age from Central Italy was technologically assessed in order to establish the forming techniques necessary to produce it. This hypothesized forming sequence was then tested through the production of two experimental urns. It was found that there is a meaningful relationship between the clay texture choices, the forming techniques, and the overall morphology of the finished object...

Documentation Strategies at Butser Ancient Farm

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Trevor Creighton 1 ✉
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Butser Ancient Farm has been at the forefront of experimental archaeology in Britain1. for more than 45 years. The pioneering work of its first director Dr Peter Reynolds in the evaluation of Iron Age structures and agriculture demonstrated beyond doubt the importance of experiment in archaeology in the UK and international experimental archaeology work...