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Raw Material and Technological Changes in Ceramic Productions at S ai I sland, N orthern S udan, from the Seventh to the Third Millennium BC
Author(s) -
D'Ercole G.,
Eramo G.,
Garcea E. A. A.,
Muntoni I. M.,
Smith J. R.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
archaeometry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.716
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1475-4754
pISSN - 0003-813X
DOI - 10.1111/arcm.12113
Subject(s) - pottery , petrography , archaeological science , archaeology , ceramic , raw material , geology , geography , mineralogy , metallurgy , ecology , materials science , biology
This study presents the results of integrated mineralogical, petrographic and chemical analyses of different ceramic assemblages and local sediments from S ai I sland, northern S udan, dating to between the seventh and the third millennium bc , and highlights a significant variability in the raw materials and technology of these productions. Although archaeometric analyses of ceramics are widely employed in many parts of the world, a lamentable scientific gap exists for A frican pottery, which this paper aims to bridge with new and compelling results.