Modern Trends in Scientific Studies on Ancient Ceramics [Paperback]

This volume contains a selection of 43 papers presented at the 5th European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics, at Athens in 1999. This regular meeting provides a forum for the presentation of existing trends in the field of ancient ceramic studies, based on combined scientific/archaeological approaches. These current papers offer an overview of the current status of the highly multidisciplinary research in Europe, both in terms of the many scientific techniques (with a balance between mineralogical and chemical methods) developed and applied, as well as on novel methodological approaches on materials, covering a broad range of periods and geographical regions (from Spain to the Middle East, from Uzbekistan to the Aegean). All the papers of this volume were peer-reviewed for their originality, significance, and technical validity.Forty-three short papers, presented at the 5th European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics held in Athens in 1999, reflect on recent archaeological and scientific developments in the anaysis of ceramics, with emphasis on pottery from the Aegean, Italy, Iberia and Central Europe.