essay
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).
Abstract
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).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- Middle East
- Sub Region
- Middle East
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 2006
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- 7000-6000 BP (5000-4000 BC)
- Coverage Place
- Susiana Plain, southwestern Iran
- Notes
- By Judith C. Berman
- Discussion of Judith Berman's paper / Chairman M. Trolle Larsen
- For bibliographical references see document 14: Henrickson and Thuesen
- LCSH
- Ubaid culture