GlobalPottery 1. Historical Archaeology and Archaeometry for Societies in Contact

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The study of ceramics, their movement and their changes over time is one of the most significant and fruitful areas of historical archaeology. Nonetheless, a gap in the research is evident from the limited number of projects embracing archaeometrical methodologies. This volume, consisting of several of the papers given at GlobalPottery – 1st International Congress on Historical Archaeology and Archaeometry for Societies in Contact (2012) and further invited contributions, provides a wealth of research and data to help fill this gap. The conference focussed on ceramics of the Early Modern Period, taking a truly global perspective, with sessions on Europe, the Americas, and the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Each paper provides detailed scientific analyses of ceramic evidence, contextualised into historical and social narratives. These papers shed light on the effect societies have on one another when they come into contact, a particularly stimulating topic for a period which saw the European colonisation of the Americas and the first circumnavigations of the world. Throughout the volume, scientific and stylistic analyses are combined to aid our understanding of the transmission of ideas and methods of ceramic technology in this period of increasing connectivity across vast distances. English and Spanish language papers include detailed illustrations and maps along with tabular data and graphs. Owing to its highly interdisciplinary nature, this volume is of interest to those studying a wide range of topics including archaeometry, ceramics, Early Modern archaeology and geographical connectivity. Front Cover Title Page Copyright Preface Contents Part I: Europe and the Mediterranean Sea 1. Archaeometry of the technological change in societies in contact. First examples for modern ceramics from the Crowns of Castile and Aragon 2. Technological transfer and trade routes of glazed wares in Medieval and post-Medieval times in the western Mediterranean. "Global pottery" from Savona and Albisola (Liguria, Italy) 3. Diffusion and influence of Italian ceramics between Late Middle Ages and Early Post-Medieval times in Granada 4. Islamicisation as cultural change and regional microprovenance. Petrography of cooking wares in the Early Medieval Vega of Granada 5. Portuguese Faience trade and consumption across the world (16th–18th centuries) 6. High-performance transport jars for long-distance trading during the 16th century 7. Convents, monasteries and porcelain: a case study of Santana Convent, Lisbon 8. Sphero-conical vessels of Volga Bulgaria 9. Spectroscopic characterization of pigment and glazes from the 17th century Portuguese faience Part II: The Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean 10. Archaeological characterization of Colonial pottery from Mendoza city and surroundings. Production, distribution and consumption contexts in the Spanish empire periphery in South America (16th and 17th centuries) 11. Contemporary pottery from São Vicente, Madeira (old captaincy of Machico): physical and chemical characterization 12. Colonial pottery from Santa Fe la Vieja (1573–1660). The study of European products and local production in a Spanish-American city 13. Late Seventeenth/Early Eighteenth-Century Apalachee Colonoware pottery: a case study in continuity and change 14. Pottery at the Indigenous dwelling site of Cueva Pintada (13th–16th AD) (Gáldar, Gran Canaria, Spain). Contacts,conflicts and ethnic identities 15. Shifting values: a study of Early European trade wares in the Amerindian site of El Cabo, eastern Dominican Republic 16. Basque fishing crews’ pottery in Canada: a transatlantic evaluation of ceramic remains left by an Early Modern global enterprise 17. Colonial pottery in Mexico 18. Approaching the Cultural Complexity of Pottery from Sancti Spiritus Village and Fort (Puerto Gaboto, Argentina) 19. Santa María de la Antigua del Darién: las huellas de una ciudad perdida 20. Globalization and luxury ceramics of the 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish-Atlantic world 21. Production and function of indigenous pottery during Inca domination and the early Spanish colonial occupation of the valley of Mendoza (central west Argentina) 22. The Red Burnished Ware of Central Mexico: change and permanence. "El Maye" case 23. Health, cultural practices and ceramic traditions: archaeometric analysis of lead glazed ware in Santafé de Bogotá (Colombia) 24. Spanish olive jars in New Spain, Mexico Part III: The Indian and the Pacific Oceans 25. Local and European transport jars in Panama. Chemical and Mineralogical characterization 26. Asian Stonewares in the Early Modern Period: global processes and local consequences 27. On the Qianjiang Art of Chinese Porcelain 28. Ceramics, global networks of trade and interaction—the feira trade and the Portuguese in northern Zimbabwe, 16th–17th centuries AD 29. A Muddy Study: the Utah Pottery Project as a case study for archaeometric analyses of global flows of potters, pottery, and potting