METHODOLOGY: POTTERY TECHNOLOGY
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- ELENA MARROCCHINO
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- L-ANT/10
Training objectives
- KNOWLEDGE:
- to understand how the interdisciplinary study of archaeological pottery tecnology and archaeometry can help in the comprehension of ancient society (social organization of production and circulation networks)
- to analyse and critically compare some case studies
SKILLS:
- to describe and to record the production phases from the finished manufact
- to know the different laboratory methodologies in order to collaborate in the field work with specialists in interdisciplinary investigations Prerequisites
- none
Course programme
- - manufacturing process
- technological and laboratory archaeometric analyses
- drawing and data-base
- production's and circulation's social aspects
- examples from italian prehistory and protohistory Didactic methods
- lectures on the general topics, seminars on specific topics and cases study.
Laboratory and exercices with thin sections at the petrographic microscope are based in the department DSCG in Modena, at the end of the course Learning assessment procedures
Part 1: term paper and presentation: write a 5-6 pages study in the form of a scholarly article with proper references and bibliography on a specific case study. The topic and bibliography have to be selected by the studnets and approved in advance. During the exam this will be also the subject of the oral presentation: 10 min / 10 slides for each student.Reference texts
- Levi S.T. 2010, Dal coccio al vasaio. Manifattura, tecnologia e classificazione della ceramica, Bologna.
Vidale M. 2007, Ceramica e archeologia, Roma.
Leonardi G., Penello G. 1991, Il disegno archeologico della ceramica, in Il disegno archeologico della ceramica e altri problemi, a cura di G. Leonardi, Saltuarie dal laboratorio del Piovego 2, Torino, pp. 9-76.
The Oxford Hanbok of European Bronze Age, Fokken H., Harding A. (eds) 2013, Craft Production: Ceramics, Textiles and Bones (Chapter 26): 469-491.
Levi S.T., Muntoni I.M. 2014. L’archeometria della ceramica in Italia: storia degli studi, risultati e prospettive della ricerca. In (Guidi A. ed) 150 anni di Preistoria e Protostoria in Italia, Studi di Preistoria e Protostoria 1, Istituto Italiano di Preistoria Protostoria, Firenze: 535-542
further informations:
Cuomo di Caprio N. 2007, Ceramica in archeologia 2, "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, Roma.
Patrick S.Quinn, 2013, Ceramic Petrography, Archeopress, Oxford
