African Pottery Roulettes Past and Present
eBook - ePub

African Pottery Roulettes Past and Present

Techniques, Identification and Distribution

  1. 180 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

African Pottery Roulettes Past and Present

Techniques, Identification and Distribution

About this book

African Pottery Roulettes Past and Present considers ethnographic, museological and archaeological approaches to pottery-decorating tools called roulettes, that is to say, short lengths of fibre or wood that are rolled over the surface of a vessel for decoration. This book sets out, for the first time, a solid typology for the classification of African pottery decorated with such tools, and forges a consensus on common methodology and standards. It gives an overview of history of research into roulette decoration in Africa and elsewhere Jomon Japan, Neolithic Europe, Siberia, and New York among others; outlines the contemporary distribution of roulette usage in sub-Saharan African today, a 'success story' from Senegal to Tanzania; and proposes methodologies for the identification of selected roulette decoration types in the archaeological record. By achieving standardisation in pottery analysis, this book will help researchers make meaningful comparisons between different sites of West Africa, and thus guide further research on the West African past. As roulette decoration has been such a global phenomenon in the past, the book will also be of interest to all researchers with an interest in ceramics from different parts of the world.

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Yes, you can access African Pottery Roulettes Past and Present by Anne Haour, K. Manning, N. Arazi, O. Gosselain, K. Manning, N. Arazi in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Cultural & Social Anthropology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface and Acknowledgments
  6. Maps
  7. Introduction
  8.      Objectifs
  9. Section 1 Modern roulettes in sub-Saharan Africa
  10.      Introduction: classification and nomenclature of African roulettes
  11. Section 1 Roulettes modernes d’afrique sub-sahariennne
  12. Section 2 A method of identification for rolled impressed decorations
  13. Section 2 Méthode d’identification des décors roulés
  14.      Introduction
  15.      Introduction
  16. Section 3
  17.      Twisted cord roulette / Roulette de cordelette torsadée
  18.      Cord-wrapped roulette / Roulette de cordelette enroulée
  19.      Braided cord roulette (simple and composite) / Roulette de cordelette tressée (simple et composite)
  20.      Folded strip roulette / Roulette de fibre plate pliée
  21.      Knotted strip roulette / Roulette de fibre plate nouée
  22.      Braided strip roulette / Roulette de fibre plate tressée
  23. Glossary