Insight from Innovation: New Light on Archaeological Ceramics (Southampton Monographs in Archaeology) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0992633648 ISBN 13: 9780992633646

Publisher: The Highfield Press, 2016

Synopsis

This collection of papers is presented in honour of Professor David Peacock’s many and lasting contributions to archaeological ceramic studies. Building on Professor Peacock’s legacy of inventive approaches, the volume contains some of the most exciting developments currently taking place within archaeological ceramic studies, including cutting-edge provenanceing techniques, computer-aided visualisations, and contemporary craft and design perspectives. Pottery is approached not as an end to itself but as a vehicle for addressing a wide range of archaeological questions, and the papers thereby demonstrate that ceramic studies represent one of the frontiers in modern-day archaeology. Developing new techniques and finding new uses for old ones open up avenues for research which will enrich our understanding of past societies across the world and through all periods. The volume closes with two thought-provoking papers; one from a ceramic artist and the other reflecting upon the role of ceramic studies in the various sectors of contemporary archaeological practice.

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About the Author

Dr Emilie Sibbesson is senior lecturer in prehistoric archaeology at Canterbury Christ Church University. She specialises in Neolithic archaeology, food technology, and prehistoric ceramics. She is co-editor of Neolithic Bodies (Oxbow, in prep.) and has contributed to two major food studies encyclopaedias: Food Issues (ed. Ken Albala, SAGE Reference 2015) and Archaeology of Food (eds. K. Metheny & M. Beaudry, Rowman & Littlefield 2015). She is secretary of the Prehistoric Ceramics Research Group and has led scientific analysis of pottery assemblages from a series of Neolithic sites in East Anglia, Oxfordshire, and Gloucestershire.

Dr Ben Jervis is lecturer in medieval archaeology at Cardiff University, where he specialises in the study of medieval archaeology and material culture. He is the author of Pottery and Social Life in Medieval England: Towards a relational approach (Oxbow, 2014) and co-editor of Objects, Environment and Everyday Life in Medieval Europe (Brepols, 2016), Food and Drink in Archaeology 4 (Prospect Books, 2015) and Make-do and Mend: Archaeologies of Compromise, Repair and Re-use (BAR, 2012). He has been involved in the analysis of major pottery assemblages from the Anglo-Saxon sites at Bishopstone (East Sussex) and Lyminge (Kent) as well as medieval pottery from excavations in Southampton. He was also pottery specialist for the Noviodunum Archaeological Project (Romania).

Dr Sarah Coxon is a heritage tourism adviser for a leading archaeological tour operator in the UK. She specialises in the Bronze Age archaeology of Central Europe and the Northern Balkans. She was a member of the HERA funded Creativity in the Bronze Age (CinBA) project and has contributed to Creativity in the Bronze Age (Cambridge University Press, in prep.). In addition she has worked for many years as a pottery specialist at the Bronze Age tell site of Szazhalombatta in Hungary.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Highfield Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0992633648
• ISBN 13: 9780992633646
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 220
• Editor: Sibbesson Emilie, Jervis Ben, Coxon Sarah