Study on archaeological pottery finds in the Basque Country
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DiscoveriesCountry: Spain With shards and fragments and other pottery artefacts that have survived the ravages of time, ancient civilisations can be better understood. In general, these investigations are carried out by archaeologists, basing their work on the shapes and other parameters of pottery remains. Geologists at the Department of Mineralogy and Petrology at the University of the Basque Country (EHU-UPV) are putting the finishing touches to this research project, using certain techniques based on geology.Researchers at the EHU-UPV studied pottery from the Neolithic to the XVI century, generally those artefacts found in the Basque Country. They focused on archaeological investigation using physical-chemical techniques. These have the twin objectives of obtaining information about the technology used in making pottery as well as obtaining data on the raw material(s) used in the production of the pieces.
In all cases, the pieces were first classified into a number of different groups by the archaeologists, according to the following parameters: shape, function, decoration and what could be deduced from observations of cuts in the fragments with a magnifying glass. Subsequently, it was the geologists that had to confirm and determine the characteristics of each group.
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