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Mass Cultural Council STARS Grant

Mass Cultural Council STARS Grant. McCarty Middle School Parker Middle School Kimberley Connors-Hughes dig@archeducation.org. Ceramics. =. Pottery. Artifacts – Ceramic Pottery. Clay deposits 10,000 years ago Artifact Most frequently found Different vessels for different purposes.

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Mass Cultural Council STARS Grant

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  1. Mass Cultural CouncilSTARS Grant McCarty Middle School Parker Middle School Kimberley Connors-Hughes dig@archeducation.org

  2. Ceramics = Pottery

  3. Artifacts – Ceramic Pottery • Clay deposits • 10,000 years ago • Artifact Most frequently found • Different vessels for different purposes

  4. Ceramics in the Field

  5. Potsherds • Sherds vs. Shards • Diagnostics: potsherds used for analysis • Typologies: How was it made and what was it used for? (Shapes Decorations Fabric) • Chronology: When was it made? • Petrography: Where was it made?

  6. Typologies • What part of the pot? • What kind of pot? • What was it used for? • How old are the artifacts?

  7. What were these pots used for?

  8. Cooking Pots

  9. Pithoi – Straight, thick sides, flat base, open rim

  10. Grains and dried goods

  11. Amphora – Two handles, tapered sides, pointed base

  12. Body Sherd

  13. Sherd Count • Handles • Rims • Collars • Bases • Body • Decorated Sort shapes and count

  14. PotSherd Number B 66. IX. 16,113 Unmarked Pottery = BZ artifact # Dig site year excavated grid # year excavated

  15. How Old Are the Sherds? I = Israel (time of King Solomon) 3,000 years old IV = Greek/Persian 2,400 years old BZ = Eastern Roman Empire 1,700 years old IX = Egyptian (time of Pharaoh Tutankhamun) 3,350 years old VII = Israel 2,700 years old

  16. Amphora The amphora was a two-handled vase used for storage and transport. Krater "mixing-bowl" used for mixing wine with water. Plate – Jar – flat, pedestal or round bottom with or without handle Cooking Pot Thick rim with rounded base Bowl Chalice – drinking vessel Pithoi Large Storage vessel

  17. Design Time! Your Ceramic Plate

  18. Canaanite/Israelite

  19. Letters

  20. Architecture

  21. Menander or Greek Key

  22. Black Figure

  23. HW - Completed Design worksheets Tomorrow

  24. Stratigraphy

  25. Mesopotamian Ceramics

  26. Egyptian Ceramics

  27. Canaanite Israelite • Bronze Age Lamp • Palestine during the Late Bronze Age is contemporary with Egyptian New Kingdom • http://www.bu.edu/anep/lamps.html

  28. Greek/Cypriot Pottery

  29. Painted Pottery • Dionysus Holding a Kantharos. • Red-figure • The Berlin Painter • c. 490-480 B.C.

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