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Testing of ceramic vessel production technology and reconstruction of a hypothetical horizontal ceramic kiln
Andreja Kudelić
orcid.org/0000-0003-2598-1653
; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
As part of the project Technological and social aspects of Bronze Age ceramic production, the Centre for Experimental Archaeology, in co-operation with the Institute of Archaeology, conducted a series of experiments in 2012, aimed at reconstructing the technological process of producing Bronze Age ceramic vessels.
The project was developed based on Bronze Age material remains from the site Kurilovec-Belinščica (south of Velika Gorica). The goal was to experimentally test the technological process of producing ceramic vessels, that is, to reconstruct the way in which the raw material was acquired and prepared and the techniques of designing and firing the vessels. Replicas of Bronze Age vessels were made from clay gathered in the immediate vicinity of the site, and the recipe for the mixture was tested by means of test tablets. A total of 17 vessels were made, some of them fired in a pit and the others in a horizontal kiln. The kiln was reconstructed based on the remains of the dug-in feature from the Kurilovec-Belinščica site. During the firing, the clay hearth was used for preparing food in replicas of Bronze Age vessels produced in the first firing.
Keywords
ceramic vessels; technology; ceramic kiln; experimental archaeology
Hrčak ID:
112051
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Publication date:
13.12.2013.
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