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Ceramic production and its implications for the sociopolitical organization of the Susiana Plain during the late 'Ubaid
upon this foundation : the 'ubaid reconsidered : proceedings from the 'ubaid symposium, elsinore, may 30th-june 1st 1988 • Copenhagen • Published In 1989 • Pages: 257-280
By: Berman, Judith C., Ubaid Symposium (1988 : Helsingør, Denmark).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper discusses the results of a neutron activation analysis of some 500 ceramic objects from the 'Ubaid Period on the Susiana Plain in southwestern Iran. These ceramics were gathered by Berman from several field surveys including a few excavations in the area of study. Although petrographic, mineralogical, and/or physicochemical techniques have been used since the middle of the nineteenth century to examine the chemical composition of the raw material of artifacts, the neutron activation analysis (NAA), whch measures the gamma radiation from ceramic samples subjected to a neutron beam, is sensitive to elements to parts per million, and is far more accurate and effective in ceramic source characterization studies. The results of the NAA analysis of the samples submitted suggest that changes occurred in patterns of ceramic production throughout the Late 'Ubaid: specifically, in strategies of ceramic resource procurement (p. 269).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ceramic technology
- Special deposits
- Organization and analysis of results of research
- Comparative evidence
- Laboratory analysis of materials other than dating methods in archaeology
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ubaid
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2006
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 7000-6000 BP (5000-4000 BC)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Susiana Plain, southwestern Iran
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Judith C. Berman
- Discussion of Judith Berman's paper / Chairman M. Trolle Larsen
- For bibliographical references see document 14: Henrickson and Thuesen
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ubaid culture