African Pottery Roulettes Past and Present: Techniques, Identification and Distribution - Couverture souple

Haour, Anne; Manning, K; Arazi, N; Gosselain, O

 
9781842179680: African Pottery Roulettes Past and Present: Techniques, Identification and Distribution
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1842179683 ISBN 13 : 9781842179680
Editeur : Oxbow Books, 2016

Synopsis

African Pottery Roulettes Past and Present considers ethnographic, museological and archaeological approaches to pottery-decorating tools called roulettes, that is to say, short lengths of fibre or wood that are rolled over the surface of a vessel for decoration.

This book sets out, for the first time, a solid typology for the classification of African pottery decorated with such tools, and forges a consensus on common methodology and standards. It gives an overview of history of research into roulette decoration in Africa and elsewhere Jomon Japan, Neolithic Europe, Siberia, and New York among others; outlines the contemporary distribution of roulette usage in sub-Saharan African today, a 'success story' from Senegal to Tanzania; and proposes methodologies for the identification of selected roulette decoration types in the archaeological record.

By achieving standardisation in pottery analysis, this book will help researchers make meaningful comparisons between different sites of West Africa, and thus guide further research on the West African past. As roulette decoration has been such a global phenomenon in the past, the book will also be of interest to all researchers with an interest in ceramics from different parts of the world.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

African Pottery Roulettes Past and Present considers ethnographic, museological and archaeological approaches to pottery-decorating tools called roulettes, that is to say, short lengths of fibre or wood that are rolled over the surface of a vessel for decoration. This book sets out, for the first time, a solid typology for the classification of African pottery decorated with such tools, and forges a consensus on common methodology and standards. It gives an overview of history of research into roulette decoration in Africa and elsewhere Jomon Japan, Neolithic Europe, Siberia, and New York among others; outlines the contemporary distribution of roulette usage in sub-Saharan African today, a 'success story' from Senegal to Tanzania; and proposes methodologies for the identification of selected roulette decoration types in the archaeological record. By achieving standardisation in pottery analysis, this book will help researchers make meaningful comparisons between different sites of West Africa, and thus guide further research on the West African past. As roulette decoration has been such a global phenomenon in the past, the book will also be of interest to all researchers with an interest in ceramics from different parts of the world.

Revue de presse

The volume has been produced by archaeologists specifically for archaeologists, and the illustrations of the potters in action (on the cover), and more essentially of their rouletting tools and the resulting impressed effects on the vessesl before firing, offer excavators in eastern as well as western Africa a source of reference and system of classification as they sort their decorated sherds.' --John Sutton "Journal of African Archaeology, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2011 "

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Éditeur
Oxbow Books
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1842179683
ISBN 13 
9781842179680
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
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