Creating the so-called graphite-coated pottery of the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages: An experimental approach to manufacturing prehistoric pottery

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://archeologickerozhledy.cz/index.php/ar/article/view/166" target="_blank" >https://archeologickerozhledy.cz/index.php/ar/article/view/166</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.35686/AR.2023.2" target="_blank" >10.35686/AR.2023.2</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Creating the so-called graphite-coated pottery of the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages: An experimental approach to manufacturing prehistoric pottery

Original language description

Over the centuries, various minerals were used in pottery production; for some societies, graphite played a unique role. Certain areas lack local sources of this mineral but simultaneously reveal a great occurrence of ‘graphite-coated’ pottery. Still, it is commonly believed that the surface of these vessels was coated with graphite. The aim of the article is to examine whether the surface visually characterised as ‘graphited’(suggesting the use of graphite) could be achieved without the application of the mineral and what the technological process of manufacturing might have looked like. Macroscopical and archaeometry recognition features of ‘graphite-coated’ pottery and mineral graphite were indicated. A series of experiments were performed to achieve a lustrous, silver surface without applying mineral graphite. The firing process was conducted in two types of kilns reconstructed according to archaeological sources from the territory of Poland dated to the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages. The reproduced pottery shows surfaces very similar to their prehistorical counterparts. The significant occurrence of this type of pottery indicates its production could also be conducted in areas lacking mineral graphite.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Archeologické rozhledy

ISSN

0323-1267

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

75

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

7-23

UT code for WoS article

001099992400002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85175944110