Pottery making in upper Egypt: An ethnoarchaeological study

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Despite the enormous importance of pottery to the archaeologist, detailed ethnoarchaeological studies of pottery production are rare, and tend to concentrate on the most primitive forms of pottery production. The study of the potteries and clay mines at Deir el‐Gharbi, Upper Egypt was undertaken with this in mind. The potteries are of a type defined by David Peacock as a ‘rural nucleated pottery industry’, they produce large amphora‐like vessels which are distributed throughout Egypt. The study revealed much about the technology of clay extraction and pottery production, as well as something of their organization. More significantly, it shed some new light on how such industries might or might not be reflected in the archaeological record. A study of the vessels themselves revealed several points of interest for the study of wheel‐turned ceramic assemblages generally.

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