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📄 More than a ware. Preliminary observations on the typological, mineralogical, and chemical diversity of cream wares from Jordan (mid-8th to 11th centuries)

🗺️ Analysing samples from eight sites in Jordan, the authors demonstrate just how diverse the category of Islamic Cream Ware (ICW) really is — a pottery type in use across the southern Levant between the mid-8th and 11th centuries.

🔎 What did the research reveal? 🏺 Different workshops produced pottery with the same stylistic and morphological patterns. 🧭 The two main ICW subtypes were manufactured in both northern and southern Jordan. 📦 The mould-made ICW C subtype was likely imported from Palestine.

💡 Key highlights: 🔸 The broad spectrum of cream ware products (mid-8th–11th c.) goes beyond the notion of a single "ware." 🔸 Cream wares show regional variation in compositional features.

🔸 Significant compositional and technological differences exist between the main ICW subcategories. 📖 We warmly invite you to read it! #archaeology #IslamicCreamWare #Jordan #archaeometry #CAAPL #pottery #NCN

The study employed the modular method and the cosine quantogram. The text appeared in the prestigious journal #Archaeometry 🏅:

Exploring the Metric Systems of Medieval New Towns in Central Europe: Reconstruction of Urban Plot Scheme Using Cosine Quantogram and Modular Analysis 📊

The researchers and their team demonstrated, among other things, that there was no single pattern across the studied group of towns. In Silesia, both the Chełmno foot and the Rhenish foot were used 📏. We invite you to read and discuss: link in the comments 📖🗣️

#CAApoland #archeologia #urbanistyka #medieval #research 🔍✨ @followers

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/FUZGIWIQBQQNTQFTBGKP?target=10.1111/arcm.70033

Tekst ukazał się w prestiżowym czasopiśmie #Archaeometry 🏅: Exploring the Metric Systems of Medieval New Towns in Central Europe: Reconstruction of Urban Plot Scheme Using Cosine Quantogram and Modular Analysis

Badaczki wraz z zespołem wykazały m.in., że w badanym zespole miast nie było jednego wzoru. Na Śląsku wykorzystywana zarówno stopę chełmińską jak i reńską. Zapraszamy do lektury i dyskusji: link w komentarzu 📖🗣️

#CAApoland #archeologia #urbanistyka #medieval #research 🔍✨

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/FUZGIWIQBQQNTQFTBGKP?target=10.1111/arcm.70033

[...] A sealed Iler's Malt Whiskey bottle with a remnant of a dark yellow liquid was recovered from a privy site in the state of Washington.

It had been stored on the shelves of the Burke Museum in Seattle for approximately 15 years.

A sample of this liquid, presumed to be whiskey, was submitted to our laboratory for analysis . [...] These findings left little doubt that the liquid in the whiskey bottle was in fact not a distillery product but urine. [...]

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Pigmentos y tecnología artística mochicas

Resumen: Para la civilización mochica, el arte mural representaba una expresión artística muy importante que permitía a la élite transmitir al pueblo una codificación simbólica de su propio poder. Por ende, más allá de un rol decorativo, desempeñaba una función de vector ideológico, fundamental para esta sociedad sin escritura textual. La importancia del adorno mural en esta sociedad llevó el…