Ceramic Technology

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Ceramic Technology

• Katie Ratican
• Eric Bansal
• 10/30/2003
• Sect. 106
• John Matsunaga

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Production Sequence

• 1. Obtaining clay, tempers, and fuels
• 2. Forming a vessel
• 3. Drying the Clay
• 4. Firing
• 5. Distributing the vessel to a user

(from Perles 2002. Pg. 195)
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Forming Techniques

• Coiling
• roll clay and coil in spiral
• pinch coils to form surface

• Base
• cut out of thick slab of clay
• foundation for the vessel

• Rims
• used to distinguish vessels

• Pinching
• squeezing clay and rotate vessel
• thins walls and increases height

Photo by Nenad Tasic
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Decoration

• The clay must be moist.
• Swirls, circles, dots, lines were common designs.
• Knives, sticks, or other instruments were used to
  create designs.
• After firing, the pottery could be painted, then
  fired again.
• Glass based paints, glazes were used.

(http//www.rastko.org.yu/arheologija/vinca/vinca_
eng.html)
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Bibliography

• Kaiser, Timothy
• 1984 Vinca Ceramics Economic and Technological
  Aspects of Late Neolithic Pottery Production in
  Southeastern Europe. Ph.D. Dissertation,
  Department of Anthropology, University of
  California, Berkeley.
• Chapman, John
• 1981 The Vinca Culture of South-East Europe
  Studies in Chronology,Economy and
  Society.OxfordBritish Archeological Reports No.
  117.
• Markotic, Vladimir
• 1984 The Vinca Culture. Calgary Western
  Publishers.
• Pictures
• Vinca Ceramics (http//www.rastko.org.yu/arheologi
  ja/vinca/vinca_eng. html)
• Vinca Ceramics (photos by Nenad Tasic)
• Vinca Ceramics (Serbian Academy of Arts and
  Sciences)
• Drawings of Neolithic Ovens (Perles, Catherine.
  2002. The Early Neolithic in
• Greece., pg. 195. Cambridge Cambridge
  University Press).