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Wheel-shaped early medieval pottery: a technological perspective

The paper discusses techniques of pottery making, especially vessels that have a circular imprint on the surface of the vessel base. Such vessels often appear as a grave good in early medieval graves, at the second half of the 8th and early 9th century in the area of central and south-eastern Europe. Their presence was also confirmed during the recent archaeological excavation of the settlement site in north-western Croatia (Torčec – Prečno Pole I and Virje – Volarski Breg/Sušine). In addition to pots with circular imprint on the surface of the base, vessels with a flat base also appear in same context and at the same period. Archaeological experiment will test the assumptions which are based on the macroscopic analysis of ceramics. It is assumed that for the making of pottery a slow potter’s wheel was used which, in many parts, retained until the 20th century. The vessels were made by drawing technique and by using the rotational kinetic energy only for final processing. The paper also discusses the possibility of usage of a fast wheel, based on the records of manufacturing traces on ceramic fragments, with special emphasis on a circular imprint.

early middle age; pottery; technology; experiment

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