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Analysis of Use Wear on Ceramic Potter's Tools

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

Robert C. Henrickson
Robert C. Henrickson*
Affiliation:
Conservation Analytical Laboratory, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560
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Abstract

Analyses of the distribution and nature of abrasion on ceramic rings from the third millennium B.C. portion of the Godin III pottery assemblage in western Iran (2600-1400 B.C.) indicate that it represents use wear. Residual scars on pottery vessels and reconstruction of vessel forming sequences support identification of these rings as potter's tools. They provide interconnections among varied sizes of Buff Common ware vessels made using different forming and finishing methods. This strengthens the inference of workshop production by specialist potters who make the full range of Buff Common ware vessels.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 267: Symposium J – Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology III , 1992 , 475
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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