Relentlessly plain: seventh millennium ceramics at Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria
Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: The emergence of pottery in Upper Mesopotamia: Olivier Nieuwenhuyse -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. The adoption of pottery -- 1.3. The development of a mass product -- 1.4. Pottery for s...
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Print version: Nieuwenhuyse, Olivier P: Relentlessly Plain : Seventh Millennium Ceramics at Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria. - Havertown : Oxbow Books, Limited,c2018. - 9781789250848 |
| Summary: | Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: The emergence of pottery in Upper Mesopotamia: Olivier Nieuwenhuyse -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. The adoption of pottery -- 1.3. The development of a mass product -- 1.4. Pottery for storage -- 1.5. Pots for cooking -- 1.6. The role of style -- 1.7. About this book -- Chapter 2: The excavations at Tell Sabi Abyad: Olivier Nieuwenhuyse -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. The stratigraphy of Operation III -- 2.3. The Operation III prehistoric building sequence -- 2.4. The contextual composition of Operation III -- 2.5. The excavations at Operations IV and V -- Chapter 3: Analytical procedures: Olivier Nieuwenhuyse -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. The way of the sherds -- 3.3. How much pottery? -- 3.4. Measuring fragmentation -- 3.5. Defining pottery wares -- 3.6. Reconstructing vessel shape -- 3.7. Estimating vessel volume -- 3.8. Deconstructing decoration -- Chapter 4: Analysing the prehistoric ceramic wares: Olivier Nieuwenhuyse -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Standard Ware -- 4.3. Early Mineral Ware -- 4.4. Fine Mineral Tempered Ware -- 4.5. Grey-Black Ware -- 4.6. Mineral Coarse Ware -- 4.7. Dark-Faced Burnished Ware -- 4.8. Fine Painted Ware -- 4.9. Orange Fine Ware -- 4.10. Standard Fine Ware -- 4.11. Halaf Fine Ware -- 4.12. Late Bronze Age pottery -- Catalogue -- Chapter 5: Raw materials for early ceramic production at Tell Sabi Abyad: Bonnie Nilhamn, Loe Jacobs and Bram van As -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. The microscopic fabric analysis -- 5.3. The thin-section analysis -- 5.4. Discussion and conclusions -- Chapter 6: Plastered ceramics at Tell Sabi Abyad: Olivier Nieuwenhuyse and Ewout Koek -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Plastered Late Neolithic ceramics -- 6.3. The typology of plastered Standard Ware -- 6.4. Analysing the raw materials. 6.5. Discussion and conclusions -- Chapter 7: The decoration techniques of 'white-slipped-and-painted' Standard Ware: Luc Megens -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Sampling and analytical procedures -- 7.3. Results -- 7.4. Discussion and conclusions -- Chapter 8: Early pottery repairs at Tell Sabi Abyad: Olivier Nieuwenhuyse and Renske Dooijes -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Plaster repairs -- 8.3. Perforations and bitumen -- 8.4. The introduction of pottery repairs -- 8.5. Repairs in context -- 8.6. Concluding remarks -- Plate section -- Chapter 9: Investigating the provenance of the early pottery from Tell Sabi Abyad: Marie Le Mière, Valérie Thirion-Merle and Maurice Picon (†) -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Analytical procedures and sampling -- 9.3. Classifying the Tell Sabi Abyad ceramics by chemical composition -- 9.4. Discussing the Tell Sabi Abyad results -- 9.5. Comparing Tell Sabi Abyad and Seker al-Aheimar -- 9.6. Concluding remarks -- Chapter 10: Basketry-impressed pottery from Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad: Koen Berghuijs -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. Of basketry and pottery -- 10.3. The dataset -- 10.4. Discussion -- 10.5. Concluding remarks -- Chapter 11: Neolithic assemblages, periodisation and sequences: Olivier Nieuwenhuyse -- 11.1. Introduction -- 11.2. Operation III: quantities and densities -- 11.3. The assemblages of the A-B sequences -- 11.4. The assemblages of the C-D sequences -- 11.5. Periodisation -- 11.6. The regional framework -- Chapter 12: The pottery from Operations IV and V: Olivier Nieuwenhuyse -- 12.1. Introduction -- 12.2. The prehistoric pottery from Operation IV -- 12.3. The prehistoric pottery from Operation V -- Catalogue -- Chapter 13: The depositional context of the pottery: Olivier Nieuwenhuyse -- 13.1. Introduction -- 13.2. Top soil, Islamic and Late Bronze Age contexts 13.3. Late Neolithic fragmentation and deposition in Operation III -- 13.4. Fragmentation and deposition in Operations IV-V -- Chapter 14: Ceramics from the cemeteries: Jo-Hannah Plug and Olivier Nieuwenhuyse -- 14.1. Introduction -- 14.2. Cemeteries at Tell Sabi Abyad -- 14.3. Depositions of pottery -- 14.4. Selecting pots for burial -- 14.5. Containers for burial -- 14.6. Sherds as ritual artefacts -- 14.7. Pottery and identity after death -- 14.8. Concluding remarks -- Chapter 15: Tracing pottery use through lipid residue analysis: Mélanie Roffet-Salque, Richard P. Evershed and Anna Russell -- 15.1. Introduction -- 15.2. Pottery selection and methods -- 15.3. Gener al assessment of the organic residues -- 15.4. Distribution of lipid concentrations -- 15.5. Lipid residues versus archaeozoological record -- 15.6. Concluding remarks -- Chapter 16: Into the Pottery Neolithic at Tell Sabi Abyad: Olivier Nieuwenhuyse -- 16.1. Introduction -- 16.2. The coming of pottery -- 16.3. The slow development of a mass product -- 16.4. A concern with storage -- 16.5. Cooking with pots -- 16.6. A 'painted pottery revolution' delayed -- 16.7. Prospects for further research -- Bibliography |
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