| Discovering Our Past: A Brief Introduction to Archaeology Third Edition | from the original on 2011-09-06 |
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| "Materializing Identities: An African Perspective | These three categories can be used to consider the implications of the reoccurrence of a particular sort of pottery in different areas |
Source material [ ] Fabric analysis [ ] The "clay body" is also called the "paste" or the "fabric", which consists of 2 things, the "clay matrix" - composed of grains of less than 0.
28| : The surface of pottery wares may be burnished prior to firing by rubbing with a suitable instrument of wood, steel or stone to produce a polished finish that survives firing | Pottery was hardly seen on the tables of elites from times until the , and most medieval wares were coarse and utilitarian, as the elites ate off metal vessels |
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| During the process of throwing, the wheel rotates while the solid ball of soft clay is pressed, squeezed and pulled gently upwards and outwards into a hollow shape | Combined with other evidence, the study of pottery artefacts is helpful in the development of theories on the organisation, economic condition and the cultural development of the societies that produced or acquired pottery |
Parts of hand-built vessels are often joined together with the aid of , an aqueous suspension of clay body and water.
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