Pottery Decoration in Archaeology

Decorated pottery has always been of great interest to archaeologists, whether for archaeological chronologies or to make inferences about ethnicity, identity and other aspects of past societies. This video introduces some of the main methods for decorating pottery - slipping, painting, incising, impressing, and others - as well as some of the archaeological approaches that are relevant to the analysis of decorated pottery. These include Sackett's isochrestic style, Wiesners' emblematic and assertive styles, "ceramic sociology" of the type that William Longacre pioneered, structuralism, and narratives. The video draws on examples from Egypt, Greece, China, Sweden, Jordan, the U.S., and elsewhere.
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Very nice video Sir

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[@sandgrains3418]

From anything they made the mud?

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There are usually many clay sources around, and even ordinary soil in many parts of the world has a high clay content so you can process it to obtain the clay. When extracted, the clay can look like rock, but it becomes workable when you soak it in water.

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@@thearchaeologistslaborator6591 Thank you for the clarification, yes I have purified the clay from impurities, because when the formation sticks in my hand, what is the solution, please activate the translation, my greetings to you I wish you a happy year

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Yes, wet clay is very, very sticky. There's not much you can do about that except to add a little less water, but leave your hands wet. In any case, you don't want too much water in the clay while you're working it because it might crack while drying.

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@@thearchaeologistslaborator6591 Thank you for your attention, I want to know what the pottery maker adds materials to the clay to become obedient and flexible and to be controlled, I have information either add straw, ash, dung or pottery flour, but clay does not become obedient to a son difficult to control, especially when shakil or has the work of inscriptions, do I add gypsum? I apologize for the lengthyness, my greetings

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The potter adds "temper" to the clay partly to make it a little less malleable (so the vessel doesn't collapse while you're making it), partly so it's less subject to cracking during drying, and partly to change the properties of the fired fabric, including, in the case of temper like straw or hair, leaving voids in the fabric that make the vessel lighter and less subject to cracking. Aside from fibres like straw, temper can include sand, crushed flint or basalt, "grog" (crushed pottery), shell, and many other materials.