Archaeometric and Archaeological Approaches to Ceramics: Papers presented at EMAC '05, 8th European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics, Lyon 2005

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This volume presents a selection of papers delivered at the 8th European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics (EMAC) which took place in Lyon (France) in 2005. The EMAC series of conferences, initiated in Rome in 1991, meets every two years in a European city and brings together specialists carrying out research on ancient ceramics using archaeological sciences. EMAC provides the opportunity to present and debate recent advances in this field of research, from methodological aspects to archaeological studies with fully integrated laboratory approaches. 1) Assessment of ancient vessel design with the Finite Element Method (FEM) (A. Hein, V. Kilikoglou); 2) Contribution for a mineralogical thermometer to be applied to low fired and/or non-carbonate ceramics (P. Ricciardi, L. Nodari, B. Fabbri, S. Gualtieri, U. Russo); 3) Investigating the substrate-glaze interface of ceramics with SEM-EDS and Raman spectroscopy (C. Pacheco, R. Chapoulie, F. Daniel); 4) Ceramic sequence of 7000 years: archaeometrical study of pottery finds from Vs, Máriaasszonysziget (SW Hungary) (K.T. Biró, K. Gherdán, G. Szakmány); 5) Production and use: temper as a marker of domestic production: the case of two Middle Neolithic villages in Concise (VD, CH) (E. Burri); 6) Early and Middle/Late Neolithic pottery production in Northern Calabria (Italy): raw material provenance, paste preparation and firing techniques (I.M. Muntoni, P. Acquafredda, R. Laviano); 7) Pottery production in the Neolithic and Copper Age village of Maddalena di Muccia (Marche, Central Italy): raw material provenance and manufacturing technology (R. Laviano, I.M. Muntoni); 8) Black-on-red painted pottery production and distribution in Late Neolithic Macedonia (Z. Tsirtsoni, D. Malamidou, V. Kilikoglou, I. Karatasios, L. Lespez); 9) Bell Beakers bone based decorations from Guadiana River Middle Basin (Badajoz, Spain) (C. Odriozola, A. Justo Erbez, V. Hurtado Pérez); 10) Archaeometrical investigations of Impasto pottery from Terramara of Gorzano (Modena, Italy) (A. Cardarelli, G. Carpenito, S.T. Levi, S. Lugli, S. Marchetti Dori, G. Vezzalini); 11) Exploring patterns of intra regional pottery distribution in Late Minoan IIIA-B East Crete: the evidence the petrographic analysis of three ceramic assemblages (E. Nodarou ); 12) Preliminary results of archaeometric analysis of amphorae and Gnathia-type pottery from Risan (M. Daszkiewicz, P. Dyczek, G. Schneider, E. Bobryk); 13) Tiles from the Lyon area in the 2nd century BC: local products or imports? (N. Cantin, A. Desbat, A. Schmitt); 14) Lyon amphorae in the North: studies in distribution, chronology, typology and petrology (P. Monsieur, P. De Paepe, C. Braet); 15) Archaeometric characterisation of Roman wine amphorae from Barcelona (Spain) (V. Martínez Ferreras, J. Buxeda i Garrigós, J.M. Gurt i Esparraguera, V. Kilikoglou); 16) A late Roman pottery and brick factory in Sicily (Santa Venera al Pozzo) (S. Amari); 17) The first Byzantine ôGlazed White Waresö in the early medieval technological context (S.Y. Waksman, A. Bouquillon, N. Cantin, I. Katona); 18) The ôpolished yellowö ceramics of the Carolingian Period (9th century AD): samples from Zalavár, South-West Hungary (H. Herold ); 19) Lead-glazed slipware of 10th -11th century Akhsiket, Uzbekistan (C. Henshaw, Th. Rehren, O. Papachristou, A.A. Anarbaev); 20) Archaeometric investigation on 13th century glazed and slipped pottery found in Liguria and Provence (C. Capelli, R. Cabella, S.Y. Waksman); 21) The archaeometric study of white slips: a contribution to the characterisation of the Medieval Mediterranean productions (C. Capelli, R. Cabella); 22) From furnace to casting moulds: an exceptional 14th century copper-metallurgy workshop studied in the light of refractory ceramic materials (I. Katona, D. Bourgarit, N. Thomas, A. Bouquillon); 23) The decorative and architectural terracottas in Ferrara (R. Fabbri, S. Ciliani, M. Bagatin, F. Bevilacqua); 24) Archaeometric characteriz