cataloging of ceramic

The production of pottery/ceramic represents one of the principal innovations in the Neolithic. Often vases shapes and decoration are interpreted as expressions of cutlural identity: the study of pottery therefore represents one of the principal information source for the archaeologist. The manufacts, as direct emanation of the culture that has produced them (material culture),  provide a quantity of data relating to the community itself.  The most important are: the dating of the context in which it was found, technology, production and circulation of the objects,  data on socio-cultural phenomenons, on the diet and on the rituals.  The study of pottery is organized following  commune research’s metodology and shared by the scientific community.

In the laboratori  are carried out all the operations of preparetion and restoration to the study of the ceramic material.

• dry cleaning of the pieces and, when possibile, through cleansing;

• restoration, individuation of the joints/connections,  that is the correponding of the aerthenwares, and the glueing  (with the assistance of restorers)

• initialling

• study and cataloguing of the pieces with the immission of the data in a specific database;

• pencil drawing, “tracing” with Indian ink and raster scan ;

• distribution of the quantities and of the typologies of the significant pieces and of the relative surfaces of frequentation and reference’s sections