Examples of pottery

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Pottery with all its potential for complex variation will surely be one of the main sources of information on these contacts.
Themes such as the explanation of technological progress or cultural change usually meant a display case full of pottery ranked in typological and chronological order.
To the potters, the sah kab for pottery temper was much too scarce to be used for sur facing the road.
Local people who are not potters do not recognize the distinction between sah kab for pottery temper and sah kab for construction.
On the pottery table we enter into a new context of transformation.
Pottery fragments may undergo comparative analyses and be recipients of the coveted catalogue entry.
However, examination of the locally produced pottery collected from the surface of the site gives a possible indication of date.
The pottery designs are distinctive and a diverse range of colours used.
In the whole of this area the earth is dark and there is much surface pottery tile and evidence of burning and metal working.
The problem of residual pottery was obviously not fully understood at this time, and a return must be made to this point later.
The general absence of kilns has normally been accepted as negative evidence for the use of bonfires for firing pottery during the period.
Does the variation have a function similar to the interpretation placed upon the cremation pottery, that it represents the wearer's social group?
In a society as rich in visual symbolism (seen especially through the pottery) one should not be surprised at the presence of stylised representational objects.
One aspect of this can be seen in the development of pottery decoration.
The spatial and contextual distribution of this pottery at the sites indicates that it was used widely among the inhabitants.
Workers in these two departments were exposed to lead compounds used in the decoration of pottery ware and were consequently at risk of lead poisoning.
We may have to behave like classicists, recreating a society from a pottery-shard.
The "backcountry" look of the pottery is probably common in peripheral areas.
Local pottery is expected to be of lower quality and plainer design.
Utilitarian pottery was made nearby, either in the village or close to it.
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