Hostname: page-component-5b777bbd6c-gtgcz Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-06-18T23:17:49.768Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Reconstructing and Interpreting the Technologies of Ancient Ceramics.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2011

Pamela B. Vandiver
Pamela B. Vandiver*
Affiliation:
Conservation Analytical Lab, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560
Get access

Extract

The application of modern methods and strategies of materials science has allowed study of the technology of ancient ceramics to enter a new era. Ceramics include refractories, plasters and cements, some pigments, glasses, pottery, porcelain, bricks, tiles and enamels. Some of the questions necessary to understand and interpret ancient ceramics are given below.

Type
Research Article
Information
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 123: Symposium L – Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology I , 1988 , 89
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1988

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

1. Cohen, M. and Kranzberg, M., Materials Science and Engineering; It's Evolution, Practice and Prospects, Elsevier, NY, 1978.Google Scholar
2. Reber, S. and Smith, M. R., in High-Tech Ceramics: Past and Present, Ceramics and Civilization, Vol.3, Kingery, W.D., ed., A.Cer.S., Columbus, OH, 1987, pp. 1–18.Google Scholar
3. Goodway, M., ”Casting”, Metals Handbook, Vol.15, ASM Int'l, Metals Park, OH, 1988.Google Scholar
4. According to criteria presented by Kuhn, T.S., The Structure of the Scientific Revolutions, U. Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1962.Google Scholar
5. Vandiver, P.B., Soffer, O. and Klima, B., presented at Soc. of Am. Arch., May 1988; ms. submited to Archaeology.Google Scholar
6. Vandiver, P.B., Paleolithic Pigment Processing, M.S. Thesis, M.I.T., 1983.Google Scholar
7. Gourdin, W.H. and Kingery, W.D., J. Field Arch. (1975)2:133–150; and W.D. Kingery, P. Vandiver and M. Prickett, J. Field Arch., in press.Google Scholar
8. Vandiver, P.B., Sequential Slab Construction, Ph.D. dissertation, M. I. T., 1985; P.B. Vandiver, Paleorient (Spring 1988).Google Scholar
9. Vandiver, P. and Lacovara, P., Bull. Egyptological Seminar. (1985/6)7:53–86.Google Scholar
10. Vandiver, P., Archeomaterials (Spring 1988).Google Scholar
11. Vandiver, Sequential Slab Construction, op. cit. (1985).Google Scholar
12. Noll, W., N. Jb. Miner. Abh. (1976) 127/3:261—288, (1978)133/3:227–290, and Fortsch. Miner. (1979) 57/2:203–263.Google Scholar
13. Vandiver, P. B., in Kaczmarczyk, A. and Hedges, R.E.M., Ancient Egyptian Faience, Aris and Phillips, Warminster, England, 1983.Google Scholar
14. Kreidl, N., Uhlmann, D.R. and Vandiver, P.B., in Ceram. and Civ. (1989)5, A.Cer.S., Columbus, OH, in press.Google Scholar
15. Harden, D.B., Painter, K.S. et al., Masterpieces of Glass, British Museum, London, 1968.Google Scholar
16. Vandiver, P.B. and Koehler, C.G., Ceram. and Civ. (1985)2: 173–216, W.D. Kingery, ed., A.Cer.S., Columbus, Ohio.Google Scholar
17. Kingery, W.D. and Vandiver, P.B., Ceramic Masterpieces: Art, Structure, Technology, MacMillan Free Press, NY, 1986, and Bull.A.Cer.S. (1983)62/11: 1269–79 and (1984)63: 612–616; and Ceram. and Civ. (1984)1: 181–234, A.Cer.S., Columbus, OH; and Vandiver, L. Cort and C. Handwerker, Ceram. and Civ. (1988)4 in press.Google Scholar
18. Kingery, and Vandiver, , Ceramic Masterpieces: Art, Structure, Technology, MacMillan Free Press, NY, 1986, and Vandiver, P.B. and Carswell, J., in prep.Google Scholar
19. Goldstein, S.M., Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass, Corning Museum, Corning, NY, 1979.Google Scholar
20. Kingery, W.D. and Smith, D., Ceram. and Civ. (1984)1: 273–293; Kingery and Vandiver, Ceram. and Civ. (1985)2: 363–382; Kingery, Ceram. and Civ. (1986)3: 153–180.Google Scholar
21. Kingery and Vandiver, Ceramic Masterpieces, op. cit., 1986.Google Scholar
22. Kingery, and Vandiver, , Applic. of Sci. in the Exam. of Works of Art, ed. by England, P. and Zelst, L. Van, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1986.Google Scholar
23. Vandiver, P.B., op. cit., 1985; for alternate view see McGovern, P., Ceram. and Civ. (1986)2: 33–52.Google Scholar
24. Stapleton, D.H., Transfer of Technology to the United States in the Nineteenth Century, Ph.D. dissertation, U. of Delaware, 1975; D.J. Jeremy, Transatlantic Industrial Revolution, M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA, 1981.Google Scholar