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DOCUMENT Citation Only Lara Gonzalez Carretero. Dorian Q. Fuller.

Remains of archaeological cereal preparations are often recovered from archaeological Neolithic sites across the Near East and Europe through flotation. These are recognizable as seemingly amorphous charred fragments of plant material. The study of these charred fragments of ancient meals is of considerable importance because the identification of their components allows the characterization of the nature of the food types represented, and their preparation, provides insights into past culinary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Gilstrap. Vassilis Kilikoglou. Peter Day.

The end of the Bronze Age in the Saronic Gulf boasts at least three pottery production centers, at Kontopigado, Attica, on the north part of the island of Aegina and in northeast Corinthia. All three produce a similar range of goods and although each has a different set of production practices, certain technological information was shared. Focusing on the painted fineware pottery it is evident that all three centers decorated pots with dark-on-light motifs using either red or black paint....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eileen Johnson. Pat Shipman.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Sheppard.

Thanks to the efforts of Bill Dickinson petrographic analysis of ceramic thin sections has been able to make an almost unparalleled contribution to sourcing studies in Oceania. In this paper I will report on use of one of the new generation desktop SEMs which will help us continue and build on Bill’s work. Examples will be drawn from studies of Lapita period ceramic assemblages in the Solomon Islands. SAA 2015 abstracts made available in tDAR courtesy of the Society for American Archaeology and...