New insights for the calcium flux used in ancient Longquan and Yue kiln based on the Sr isotopic compositions
Ma H, Wood N, Doherty C, Zheng J, Zhou G, Duan H
September 2018
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Journal article
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Archaeometry
The glazes of seven types of greenware produced in the Yue and Longquan kilns between the Tang dynasty and the Ming dynasty (ad 618–1644) were studied for their strontium isotopic compositions and bulk chemical compositions. The aim was to identify the raw materials used as the calcium fluxes in the glaze recipes and whether the raw materials changed over time, particularly before and after the Southern Song dynasty (ad 1127–1279). From this work, botanic ash has been identified as the raw material used as the calcium flux in all the seven glaze types studied, and some related ceramic historical issues are also discussed.
Chinese glazes, Longquan kilns, Yue kilns, strontium isotopic analysis
Living with Clay: materials, technology, resources and landscape at Çatalhöyük
DOHERTY CJ
December 2017
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Other
The Central Anatolian Neolithic tell site of Çatalhöyük has been extensively studied as an unusually well preserved example of an early agricultural settlement. Located on a vast clay plain and occupied continuously for almost 1200 years (7100-5950 cal BC), its large size and artistically rich clay-based material culture point to clay being a major contributor to the community’s subsistence and symbolic needs. However, the prevailing interpretation of the clay-rich landscape appears to contradict this view. Thick impermeable clay beds underlying the area are thought to have impeded the drainage of seasonal floods, periodically isolating the community in extensive wetlands and forcing a reliance on twelve kilometre distant cereal growing. There is an unresolved tension between the material culture and landscape view of what clay truly afforded Çatalhöyük. The aim of this thesis is to establish the full role of clay in Çatalhöyük’s success, and is first tasked with resolving this tension. The approach taken differs from the top-down single group artifact studies and from landscape models that offer a regional explanation but disregard local actualities. Recognising that clay material culture and clay landscape at Çatalhöyük were intimately linked, this study draws on existing data combined with simple field geology and petrographic analysis to drop down to the common denominator of both of these interacting spheres: clay. The result is a reconstructed landscape interpretation that is no longer at odds either with observed patterns of clay use or broader subsistence practice. The role of clay at Çatalhöyük is re-examined in this more appropriate landscape context to demonstrate a fuller and more complex picture than previously thought. While changing clay use seems to directly reflect past decision making, complex and often hidden feedback between the tell and the immediate landscape was often the real driver for change.
Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the alluvial landscape of Neolithic Catalhoyuk, central southern Turkey: The implications for early agriculture and responses to environmental change
Exploring a petrographic and geological approach to the study of Ru ware bodies
Doherty CJ, Ding Y
Edited by:
Shi, N, Miao, J
June 2016
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Conference paper
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Proceedings of the International Symposium on Science and Technology of Five Great Wares of the Song Dynasty
Reinvestigation of Kuumbi cave, Zanzibar, reveals later stone age coastal habitation, early Holocene abandonment and iron age reoccupation
Shipton C, Crowther A, Kourampas N, Prendergast M, Horton M, Douka K, Schwenninger J-L, Faulkner P, Quintana Morales E, Langley M, Tibesasa R, Picornell-Gelabert L
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April 2016
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Journal article
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Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa
The late Pleistocene and Holocene history of eastern Africa is complex and major gaps remain in our understanding of human occupation during this period. Questions concerning the identities, geographical distributions and chronologies of foraging, herding and agricultural populations — often problematically equated with the chronological labels ‘Later Stone Age (LSA)’, ‘Neolithic’ and ‘Iron Age’ — are still unresolved. Previous studies at the site of Kuumbi Cave in the Zanzibar Archipelago of Tanzania reported late Pleistocene Middle Stone Age (MSA) and LSA, mid-Holocene Neolithic and late Holocene Iron Age occupations (Sinclair et al. 2006 Sinclair, P.J.J., Juma, A., and Chami, F.A. 2006. “Excavations at Kuumbi Cave on Zanzibar in 2005.” In The African Archaeology Network: Research in Progress, edited by J. Kinahan and J.H.A. Kinahan, 95–106. Dar es Salaam: Dar es Salaam University Press.[Google Scholar]; Chami 2009 Chami, F.A. 2009. Zanzibar and the Swahili Coast from c.30,000 Years Ago. Dar es Salaam: E&D; Vision Publishing.[Google Scholar]). Kuumbi Cave considerably extends the chronology of human occupation on the eastern African coast and findings from the site have been the basis for the somewhat contentious identification of both a coastal Neolithic culture and early chicken, a domesticate that was introduced to Africa from Asia. The site therefore warrants further investigation. Here we report on a new excavation of the Kuumbi Cave sequence that has produced a suite of 20 radiocarbon and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dates. Our results suggest that the cave’s stratigraphy is complex, reflecting taphonomic processes that present interpretive and dating challenges. Our assessment of the stratigraphic sequence demonstrates three phases of habitation, two of which reflect terminal Pleistocene occupation and are characterised by quartz microliths, bone points and the exploitation of terrestrial and marine species, and one of which reflects later reoccupation by AD 600. In this latter phase, Kuumbi Cave was inhabited by a population with a locally distinct material culture that included idiosyncratic Tana or Triangular Incised Ware ceramics and medium-sized limestone stone tools, but with a subsistence economy similar to that of the late Pleistocene, albeit with more emphasis on marine foods and smaller terrestrial mammals. Our results suggest that Kuumbi Cave may have been unoccupied for much of the Holocene, after Zanzibar became an island. Our findings also place into question earlier identifications of domesticates, Asian fauna and a mid-Holocene Neolithic culture at the site.
neolithic, Indian Ocean trade, tana tradition/triangular incised ware, site formation processes, SBTMR, Pleistocene
A luohan from Yixian in the Heritage Museum: Some Parallels in Material Usage with the Longquanwu and Liuliqu kilns near Beijing
Wood N, Doherty C, Menshikova M, Eng C, Smithies R
December 2015
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Journal article
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Bulletin of the Chinese Ceramic Art and Archaeology
A body sample from a life-sized lead-glazed luohan figure from the State Heritage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia was analysed by SEM and EDS techniques. The results were compared with analyses of clays and sancai shards from the Liuliqu kiln near Beijing and also the Guantai kiln in Southern Hebei. The Hermitage luohan sample was also compared with a previous analysis of a comparable glazed luohan figure from the musee Guimet in Paris. All these large glazed figures (ten are known) are believed to have been found in mountain caves in the Yixian region of northern Hebei province in 1912, and TL mid-dates of AD 1200-1210 +/- 200 years have been proposed for three samples.
SBTMR
A Technological Study of Mamluk-period Copies of Longquan Celadon Wares
Wood N, Doherty C
September 2015
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Journal article
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Transactions of the oriental Ceramic Society
The nature of household in the upper levels at Çatalhöyük
Marciniak A, Asouti E, Doherty C, Henton E
Edited by:
Hodder, I, Marciniak, A
January 2015
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Chapter
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Assembling Çatalhöyük
The People and Their Landscape(s): Changing Mobility Patterns at Neolithic Çatalhöyük
Sadvari J, Charles M, Ruff C, Carter T, Vasic M, Larsen C, Bar-Yosef Mayer D, Doherty C
Edited by:
Hodder, I, Marciniak, A
January 2015
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Chapter
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Assembling Catalhoyuk
SBTMR
Unpacking the Early Neolithic?
DZHANFEZOVA T, DOHERTY C, Elenski N
January 2015
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Journal article
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Самарский научный вестник
Pottery manufacturing during the Neolithic in the north of Spain
Cubas M, Doherty C, García‐Heras M, De Pedro I, Méndez D, Ontañón R
July 2014
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Journal article
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Archaeometry
4301 Archaeology, 4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, Pain Research
Shaping a future of painting: the early Neolithic pottery from Dzhulyunitsa, North Central Bulgaria
Dzhanfezova T, Doherty C, Elenski N
April 2014
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Journal article
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Bulgarian e-Journal of Archaeology
<p style="text-align:justify;">This paper presents the somewhat unexpected findings of a preliminary archaeometric study of ‘painted’ early Neolithic pottery from the site of Dzhulyunitsa, north central Bulgaria. While there is still no consensus on the actual model of Neolithisation of this region, expectations are that there would have been a transfer of pottery technology and possible small quantities of painted pottery from the West Anatolian homeland to early Neolithic sites in Bulgaria. However, our findings confound these expectations. Pottery from the earliest levels of the site are all based on local materials: there are no imported wares. There is no evidence of the experimental phase that would be expected as migrant potters learned to adjust to local clays. Instead the pottery is of a very high quality from the outset, using naturally fine clays that do not require temper: though organic material is sometimes added, albeit often in non-functional quantities. What were thought to be dark-painted layers are shown to be simply the high-quality burnishes that can be developed using these micaceous local clays: in some cases with outer surfaces enhanced with ochre. White-slipped and white-on red decorated sherds from the second layer of the site continue to showcase a mastery of local materials, with white pigments base on nearby limestones and marls. But here, petrographic analysis identifies some white-painted wares which are clearly not local, with both bodies and paint compositions pointing to a different provenance and technology. As it continues, this project aims to establish the full range of Dzhulyunitsa pottery fabrics to reconstruct manufacturing technologies and raw material sourcing patterns, for comparison with contemporary sites across the region. </p>
Dzhulyunitsa, petrography, SBTMR, pottery, SEM, Neolithisation, Early Neolithic
Landscape and taskscape at Çatalhöyük: an integrated perspective
Charles MP, Doherty C, Asouti E, Bogaard A, Henton E, Larsen C, Ruff C, Ryan P, Sadvari JW, Twiss KC
Edited by:
HODDER, I
January 2014
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Chapter
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Integrating Çatalhöyük: themes from the 2000–2008 seasons
The physical landscape settled by the inhabitants of Çatalhöyük can be framed using a combination of factors including underlying geology, climate and regional vegetation history. These factors, in turn, constrain interpretation of on-site plant, animal, human and material assemblages as evidence of land use and ‘taskscape’ (Ingold 1993). Such interpretations also rely on a series of data-specific models and baselines designed to address particular hypotheses relating to location, behavior and/or management. Here, we integrate relevant aspects of a series of on-site datasets—anthracological, macrobotanical, faunal, clay/material and human skeletal— featuring evidence produced by the 2000–2008 excavations. Our aim is to assess the combined implications of these datasets for spatial and chronological patterning of land use, workloads and mobility.
Petrographic analysis of table and kitchen wares
Doherty C
Edited by:
Aylward, W
January 2013
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Chapter
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Excavations at Zeugma
SBTMR
Petrographic analysis of transport amphorae
Doherty C
Edited by:
Aylward, W
January 2013
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Chapter
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Excavations at Zeugma
SBTMR, Excavations (Archaeology)
Pottery production at Çatalhöyük: a petrographic perspective
Doherty CJ, Tarkan D
Edited by:
Hodder, I
January 2013
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Chapter
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Substantive Technologies at Çatalhöyük Reports from the 2000-2008 Seasons
Çatalhöyük
Sourcing Çatalhöyük’s clays
Doherty CJ
Edited by:
Hodder, I
January 2013
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Chapter
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Substantive Technologies at Çatalhöyük Reports from the 2000-2008 Seasons
Catalhoyuk
Technological Approach to the Study of Personal Ornamentation and Social Expression at Çatalhöyük
Bains R, Vasic M, Bar-Yosef Mayer D, Russell N, Wright K, Doherty C
Edited by:
Hodder, I
January 2013
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Chapter
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Substantive Technologies at Çatalhöyük Reports from the 2000-2008 Seasons
History
Technology transfer across the Indian Ocean and South China Sea: a case study of the iron industry at Santubong, Sarawak
Gilmour B, Doherty C
Edited by:
Humphris, J, Rehren, T
January 2013
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Chapter
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The World of Iron
The Niah Caves, the 'Human Revolution', and Foraging/Farming Transitions in Island Southeast Asia
Rainforest Foraging and Farming in Island Southeast Asia The Archaeology of the Niah Caves, Sarawak
KOPAL clay objects
DOHERTY CJ, Ketchum S
January 2010
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Internet publication
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Clay materials
DOHERTY CJ
December 2009
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Internet publication
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A technological study of Iraqi imitations of Chinese Changsha wares and Chinese Sancai wares found at Samarra
Wood N, Doherty C, Rosser-Owen M
September 2009
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Conference paper
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Gu Taoci Kexue Jishu 8: ISAC ’09. ISAC, Beijing
In the fingerprints of Giovanni da Maiano: researching and conserving 16th century terracotta roundels at Hampton Court Palace.
Roberts Z, Hallett K, Julien-Rees S, Rawlinson K, Werrett B, DOHERTY C
December 2008
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Conference paper
Clay sourcing
DOHERTY C
November 2008
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Internet publication
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Clay sourcing: matching the materials and the landscape
DOHERTY CJ
December 2007
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Internet publication
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A TECHNOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF NINTH–TENTH CENTURY AD ABBASID BLUE‐AND‐WHITE WARE FROM IRAQ, AND ITS COMPARISON WITH EIGHTH CENTURY AD CHINESE BLUE‐AND‐WHITE SANCAI WARE*
WOOD N, TITE MS, DOHERTY C, GILMORE B
November 2007
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Journal article
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Archaeometry
4302 Heritage, Archive and Museum Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
The use of clay at Çatalhöyük
DOHERTY CJ
February 2007
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Internet publication
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Archaeological investigations at Sungai Santubong, Kuching, Sarawak 2006
Doherty CJ, Beavitt P, Buckley R, Gnanaratnam A
January 2007
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Journal article
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Sarawak Museum Journal
The ceramic petrography of LM IIIA2 cup fabrics
MacGillivray JA, Sackett LH, Driessen JM
January 2007
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Chapter
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Palaikastro: two late Minoan wells
Palaikastro
Petrographic investigation of the provenance of pottery from Engaruka
Oteyo G, Doherty C
January 2006
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Journal article
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Azania Archaeological Research in Africa
4301 Archaeology, 4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Some aspects of Yue ware production at Shanglinhu in the late Tang dynasty
Wood N, Doherty C, Rastelli S
December 2005
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Conference paper
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Gu taoci kexue Jishu 6: I
The use of oxygen, strontium and lead isotopes to provenance ancient glasses in the Middle East
Henderson J, Evans JA, Sloane HJ, Leng MJ, Doherty C
May 2005
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Journal article
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Journal of Archaeological Science
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Five dynasties Yaozhou Celadon: a true ancestor to Laohudong Guan ware?
Wood N, Doherty C, Rastelli S
Edited by:
Pierson, S
November 2004
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Chapter
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Song Ceramics: Art History, Archaeology and Technology
Technological development at the Huangbao kiln site, Yaozhou, in the 9th to the 11th centuries AD - an analytical and microstructural examination
Rastelli S, Wood N, Doherty C
December 2002
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Conference paper
2002, January. Prehistoric foragers and farmers in South-east Asia: Renewed investigations at Niah Cave, Sarawak
The paper describes the initial results from renewed investigations at Niah Cave in Sarawak on the island of Borneo, famous for the discovery in 1958 of the c. 40,000–year old ‘Deep Skull’. The archaeological sequences from the West Mouth and the other entrances of the cave complex investigated by Tom and Barbara Harrisson and other researchers have potential implications for three major debates regarding the prehistory of south-east Asia: the timing of initial settlement by anatomically modern humans; the means by which they subsisted in the late Pleistocene and early Holocene; and the timing, nature, and causation of the transition from foraging to farming. The new project is informing on all three debates. The critical importance of the Niah stratigraphies was commonly identified – including by Tom Harrisson himself – as because the site provided a continuous sequence of occupation over the past 40,000 years. The present project indicates that Niah was first used at least 45,000 years ago, and probably earlier; that the subsequent Pleistocene and Holocene occupations were highly variable in intensity and character; and that in some periods, perhaps of significant duration, the caves may have been more or less abandoned. The cultural sequence that is emerging from the new investigations may be more typical of cave use in tropical rainforests in south-east Asia than the Harrisson model.
SBTMR
Lithic Observations from Palaikastro, Crete
Doherty C, Evely D
Edited by:
Procopiou, H, Treuil, R
January 2002
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Chapter
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Moudre et broyer, L'interprétation fonctionnelle de l'outillage de mouture et de broyage dans la préhistoire et l'Antiquité
The Niah Cave Project: The second (2001) season of fieldwork
Barker G, Badang D, Barton H, Beavitt P, Bird M, Daly P, Doherty C, Gilbertson D, Glover I, Hunt C, Manser J, McLaren S
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et al
December 2001
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Journal article
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The Sarawak Museum Journal
Comments on A 'Geomorphological Study of the Giza Necropolis, with Implications for the Development of the Site'
Shortland AJ, Doherty CJ
January 2001
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Journal article
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ARCHAEOMETRY
The Niah Caves Project: Preliminary report on the first (2000) season