Ceramics
Links
Archaeological Ceramic Building Materials Group
http://www.tegula.freeserve.co.uk/acbmg.html
Forum for the analysis of brick and tile from archaeological sites.
Ceramic Petrology
http://www.postex.demon.co.uk/petrology.htm
An introduction to the techniques of clay sourcing for ceramic analysis.
Gather Around This Pot
http://www.civilization.ca/archeo/ceramiq/cerart1e.html
Civilization Canada presentation on the diversity and richness of Native ceramic making traditions in Canada. Includes pottery making techniques and conservation of ceramics.
Jamestown Ceramic Research Group
http://www.apva.org/resource/jcrg.html
Group formed to identify and define all the ceramic ware types that appear on or near the pre-1650 Jamestown archaeology site in Virginia. Includes ceramic types from Germany, China, England, Italy, France, and Spain.
Medieval Pottery
http://www.spoilheap.co.uk/medpot.htm
Introduction to Post-Roman pottery with a photo gallery of examples.
Amphora Types According to Dressel
http://www.abc.se/~pa/mar/dressel.htm
Table for dating Roman type amphoras. Originally from Heinrich Dressel: Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, band XV, Berlin 1899.
Later Prehistoric Pottery Collections Register
http://www.arch.soton.ac.uk/Research/PotteryGazetteer/
Gazetteer collection derived from a survey carried out by Southampton Archaeology for English Heritage on behalf of the Prehistoric Ceramics Research Group. Features project description, collections outline and database.
Anglo Saxon and Viking Pottery
http://www.regia.org/pottery.htm
Detailed history of pottery making techniques in Britain from Regia Anglorum.
Saint Mary's Archaeology Lab Ceramics Database
http://www.stmarys.ca/academic/arts/anthropology/sdavis/ceramics/
This project is meant to be an aid to help with identification of ceramics found on historic period archaeological sites in Nova Scotia.
The Laboratory for Ceramic Research
http://www.geol.lu.se/personal/kfl/Kfl.htm
The aim of the technological analyses is to establish choice of raw materials, manufacturing techniques and vessel functions. Lund University