Prehistoric Pottery from Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt.

Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- List of plates -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Methodology and structure of study -- 1.2 Research history on the pottery collection -- 1.3 Points of clarification -- PART I -- 2. Technology, terminology and description -- 2.1 Methods of analysis -- 2.2 Fabric description -- 2.2.1 Groundmass -- 2.2.2 Inclusions -- 2.2.3 Technological properties -- 2.3 Surface treatment description -- 2.3.1 Plain -- 2.3.2 Coated -- 2.3.3 Compacted -- 2.3.4 Textured -- 2.3.5 Decorated -- 2.4 Shape description -- 2.4.1 Vessel shape -- 2.4.2 Vessel contour -- 2.4.3 Proportion -- 2.4.4 Miscellaneous objects -- 3. Classification -- 3.1 Fabric classification -- 3.1.1 Fabric Family 1: sand-and-shale -- 3.1.2 Fabric Family 2: shale-rich -- 3.1.3 Fabric Family 3: sand -- 3.1.4 Fabric Family 4: vegetal -- 3.1.5 Fabric Family 5: fine sand and limestone -- 3.1.6 Fabric Family 6: gypsum -- 3.1.7 Fabric Family 7: clay aggregates -- 3.1.8 Fabric Family 8: marls -- 3.1.9 Fabric Family 9: densely textured -- 3.2 Ware classifi cation -- 3.2.1 Plain (Hp) wares -- 3.2.2 Compacted (Hm) wares -- 3.2.3 Coated (Hc) wares -- 3.2.4 Textured (Hx) wares -- 3.2.5 Decorated (Hd) wares -- 3.2.6 Compacted-and-coated (Hmc) wares -- 3.2.7 Compacted-and-textured (Hmx) wares -- 3.2.8 Compacted-and-decorated (Hmd) wares -- 3.2.9 Textured-and-decorated (Hxd) wares -- 4. Quantitative analysis -- 4.1 Methods of analysis -- 4.2 Analysis using multidimensional scaling and similarity percentage -- 4.3 Accounting for pottery from Masara sites -- 4.4 Characterising the Bashendi pottery tradition -- 4.4.1 Bashendi A -- 4.4.2 Bashendi B -- 4.5 Accounting for the pottery from sites 401, 407, 409, 420, 422 and 423 -- 4.6 Characterising the Sheikh Muftah pottery tradition -- 4.6.1 Early Sheikh Muftah -- 4.6.2 Late Sheikh Muftah.

4.7 Handmade pottery from sites that are not registered on the Holocene prehistory index -- 4.8 Handmade pottery from fi ndspots -- 5. Long-term change in the ceramic record -- 5.1 Summary of fabrics -- 5.2 Summary of surface treatments -- 5.3 Summary of vessel forms: shape and size -- 5.4 Comments on ware and shape cross-tabulation -- PART II -- 6. Provenance -- 6.1 Distinguishing locally made and imported pottery -- 6.2 Thin-section analysis (by Mark Eccleston) -- 7. Conclusions -- 7.1 Pottery variation and classification: reaching a compromise -- 7.2 Towards a better understanding of the early and mid-Holocene cultural units -- 7.3 Future directions for study -- Appendix Site collections -- Bibliography -- Plate section.

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