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Seventh Millennium Ceramics at Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria

Nieuwenhuyse Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse(Herausgeber*in)

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Erschienen am 31. Juli 2018

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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
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