Conclusion: The Future of Pottery Studies

Tür:

Kitap Bölümü

Yayın yılı:

2013

Yayıncı:

Cambridge University Press

The combination of abundance, near indestructability and the almost unique plasticity of the medium conspire to make the ceramic assemblage one of the most important resources from an archaeological site. Although the questions that we are posing in archaeology have altered as ideas in the subject shift and develop, it is often to pottery that we turn to test new hypotheses. Unlike some other classes of archaeological material – glass or metalwork for instance – pottery is not continuously recycled, so large parts of the assemblage do not disappear from the archaeological record. We also have the possibility of studying the development of technological and stylistic traditions over long periods of time, and thus the effects of social, political and economic change on a small group of individuals, namely the potters themselves.

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