Shell tempering in the Mississippian culture); and Freshwater sponge spicules. Some clays used to make pottery do not require the addition of tempers. Pure...
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Look up temper, tempered, or tempering in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Temper, tempered or tempering may refer to: Tempering (metallurgy), a heat treatment...
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period pottery. Woodland vessels tend to have thicker walls, flat or conical bases and a large amount of either coarse sand or grog used as temper. Mississippian...
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American pottery requires added tempers; some Hopi potters use pure kaolin clay that does not require tempering. Some clays naturally contain enough temper that...
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or the decorations that they added to the pottery. Some used crushed volcanic stone to temper the clay pottery. Decorations were made with punctuations...
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Stallings Island (section Pottery)
fiber-tempered pottery, the oldest known pottery in North America. The site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961. Stallings Island pottery found...
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Red-Polished pottery is identical to the Black-topped pottery except that it lacks the black rim. Rough pottery is made of Nile clay, heavily tempered with straw...
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low-temperature fires used for the earliest pots. Clay tempered with sand, grit, crushed shell or crushed pottery were often used to make bonfire-fired ceramics...
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Stroke-ornamented ware culture (redirect from Stroked Pottery)
Mirosław; Czarniakc, Krzysztof; Guniaa, Piotr (May 2015). "Steatite-tempered pottery of the Stroke Ornamented Ware culture from Silesia (SW Poland): a Neolithic...
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Northcote Pottery Tuscan Path Trojan Tools Supercraft Gardenmaster Westmix La Hacienda Oliver Ames Jr. Oakes Ames Ames Shovel Shop "Ames True Temper, Inc.:...
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Orange period (section Orange-series pottery)
Orange period is largely defined by the presence of Orange-series fiber-tempered pottery. During the middle to late Archaic period, sea level rise slowed and...
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of sand-tempered pottery imported from Cuba and/or Hispaniola, while sites on other islands in the Bahamas contain more shell-tempered pottery ("Palmetto...
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(23 m) wide. It has a clear interior plaza. Sherds of fiber-tempered and sand-tempered pottery, as well as stone tools, were found associated with the shell...
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archaeology, "grog" is crushed fired pottery of any type that is added as a temper to unfired clay. Several pottery types from the European Bronze Age are...
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materials to temper the clay. In general, the earlier pottery was tempered with quartz or sand, while later potters used organic tempers, such as chaff...
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Plaquemine culture (redirect from Plaquemine culture pottery)
mounds separated by a plaza. Pottery from the site was overwhelmingly grog-tempered with only a few bits of shell-tempered pottery being found. These cultural...
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The pottery vessels were still very few in number in these early settlements. At that time, the main emphasis was on the pottery with a mineral temper, as...
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consists of coastal sites mostly in northwest Alaska containing fiber-tempered pottery with linear stamping decorating the outsides of the vessels. There...
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craft specialization. Shell-tempered pottery. The adoption and use of riverine (or more rarely marine) shells as tempering agents in ceramics. Widespread...
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Lapita culture (redirect from Lapita pottery)
depending on the tools they had. But, typically, the pottery consisted of low-fired earthenware, tempered with shells or sand, and decorated using a toothed...
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Aylesford-Swarling pottery is part of a tradition of wheel-thrown pottery distributed around Kent, Essex, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire and named after...
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slag-tempered pottery in the Negev Highlands, Israel', Journal of Archaeological Science 40/10 (2013): 3777–3792. J.M. Tebes, 'Iron Age 'Negevite' Pottery:...
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Colombian art (section Pottery)
by 3100 BC. Fiber-tempered ceramics at Monsú have been dated to 5940 radiocarbon years before present. The fiber-tempered pottery at Puerto Hormiga was...
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Upper Mississippian culture. It is characterized by globular, shell-tempered pottery that is often coarse in fibre. Pieces often had a spherical body, short...
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1000, the undecorated, sand-tempered pottery that had been common in the area was replaced by "Belle Glade Plain" pottery. This was made with clay containing...
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Nakhchivan Tepe (section Pottery)
those of the upper horizon. According to Guliyeva (2023), simple chaff-tempered pottery of Nakhchivantepe "reflects the characteristics of the Kültepe culture...
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word κεραμικός (keramikós), meaning "of or for pottery" (from κέραμος (kéramos) 'potter's clay, tile, pottery'). The earliest known mention of the root ceram-...
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Goytepe archaeological complex (section Pottery)
tempered pottery were also found here; whereas, minerals, such as basalt and obsidian were generally used in plan-tempered pottery. Mineral-tempered pottery...
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temper their pottery, a practice which they shared in common with the Middle Mississippians. In contrast, the Late Woodland pottery was grit-tempered...
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Twist impressed pottery decoration is found at Monongahelan and Fort Ancient sites of both shell tempered pottery and some limestone tempered. Middle and...
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