Studying Ceramics

Pre-requisites: None

Course objectives: Introducing students to different approaches in the analysis of pottery using the newest standards in archaeology; interdisciplinary and experimental analysis, as well as the use of ethno-archaeology in the interpretation of pottery.

Course description: Methods used for analyzing ceramic material and vessels made without the use of a wheel; the use of the knowledge gained form Ethno-archaeology; the goals and methods of interdisciplinary and experimental studies, sampling methods, the interpretation of archaeological context based on pottery analysis.

Learning Outcomes: Attendance, participation, essay and oral examination

Literature/Reading:

• Orton, C., Tyers, P., Vince, A. 1993 Pottery in Archaeology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• Rice, P. 1987. Pottery Analysis: A Sourcebook. The University of Chicago Press.
• Miloglav, Ina 2016. Keramika u arheologiji - Lončarstvo vučedolske kulture na vinkovačkom području. Zagreb,Vinkovci: Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Gradski muzej Vinkovci.
• Vuković, Jasna 2017. Studije keramike: Teorija i metodologija u analizama grnčarije u arheologiji. Beograd: Zavod za udžbenike.