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Chemical composition of early ceramics from Thessaly, Greece

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Some 1300 samples of early ceramics from Thessaly were analysed by WD-XRF to distinguish possible local groups and to get information on production and distribution. The analyses covered styles from Early Neolithic (Protosesklo) to Late Neolithic (Classical Dimini and Otzaki) as well as Mycenaean pottery. The analysed sherds mainly represented surface finds from sites in the eastern and western Thessalian plains but also included pottery samples from excavations at Sesklo, Dimini, Soufli Magoula, Platia Magoula Zarko, and Makrychori 2.

References

G. Schneider, H. Knoll, K. Gallis, J.-P. Demoule, Production and distribution of coarse and fine pottery in Neolithic Thessaly, Greece, in: E. Pernicka, G.A. Wagner (eds.) Archaeometry '90 (Proc. 27th Symp. on Archaeometry held in Heidelberg Apr. 2-6, 1990), 1991, 513-522, Basel. G. Schneider, H. Knoll, K. Gallis, J.-P. Demoule, Transition entre les cultures néolithiques de Sesklo et de Dimini: Recherches minéralogiques, chimiques et technologiques sur les céramiques et les argiles, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 115, 1991, 1-64. G. Schneider, H. Knoll, K. Gallis, J.-P. Demoule, Production and circulation of neolithic Thessalian pottery: chemical and mineralogical analyses, in: La Thessalie - Quinze années de recherches archéologiques, 1975-1990 (Actes du colloque international, Lyon, 17-22 Avril 1990), 1994, 61-70, Athen. B. Feuer, G. Schneider, Chemical analysis and interpretation of Mycenaean pottery from Thessaly, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 16, 2003, 217-247.

Research Group

Kostas J. Gallis, Larisa
Giorgos Toufexis, Larisa
Heinz Knoll †, Berlin
Gerwulf Schneider, Berlin
Jean-Paul Demoule, Paris

During some phases of the study, or for parts of the project, the following specialists were also involved:
Fréderique Thiercelin (archaeologist), Claude Björk (archaeologist), Mies Wijnen (archaeologist), Cressida Ridley (archaeologist), Peter Schubert † (petrologist), Renate Nöller (mineralogist), Bryan Feuer (archaeologist). Anette Rother (mineralogist) wrote her diploma thesis at Freie Universität Berlin in 1987 on part of the laboratory studies.

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10.17171/1-11-3

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Gerwulf Schneider and Malgorzata Daszkiewicz, Chemical composition of ancient ceramics, Chemical composition of early ceramics from Thessaly, Greece, 2019, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/1-11-3

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DOI: 10.17171/1-11-3
Title: Chemical composition of early ceramics from Thessaly, Greece
Creator: Gerwulf Schneider and Malgorzata Daszkiewicz
Publisher: Edition Topoi
Publication Year: 2019
Collection: Ceramics
Resource Type: Dataset
Contributor Type: Editor
Date (Update): 22.05.2019
Holder digital source: Exzellenzcluster 264 – Topoi
Rights: CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0 DE
Subjects: 101 Ancient Cultures, 316 Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Crystallography