@misc{10481/70220,
year = {2021},
month = {7},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/70220},
abstract = {A collection of pottery vessels uncovered during the first season of excavations in the Deh Dumen Bronze Age graveyard
(the second half of the third millennium BC) located in south-western Iran were studied by using chemical, mineralogical
and physical techniques, with the aim to identify the pottery manufacturing process in this region. The site
is located in a region of the Zagros fold and thrust belt that includes carbonate rocks and alluvial deposits. The pottery
vessels found in the site present two different fabric types in their fresh surface: bright yellowish hue fabric (TYPE-1)
and sandwich-like or black core fabric (TYPE-2) showing presumably different production techniques or workshops.
Twenty-four samples from pottery sherds were selected and analysed by X-ray fluorescence (XRF), powder X-ray
diffraction (XRD), polarized light microscopy (PLM), and field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM). Hydric
tests were also performed. Samples were different according to their chemistry having distinguished calcium-rich and
calcium-poor ceramics. Al2O3
and Fe2O3
were detected as the other main components of samples besides SiO2
and
CaO. The mineralogical and textural characterisation revealed a fine-grained clayey matrix with quartz and feldspar
grains in TYPE-1 potteries and large and small calcitic and clayey lumps inclusions in TYPE-2 potteries. Imprints of
straw or other plants can be responsible for the higher porosity of some of the potteries. It was found that most of
the potteries from the Deh Dumen graveyard were produced by means of a local and traditional pottery manufacturing
technique, whilst others may have been produced in different places and transported to the graveyard as ritual
offerings.},
organization = {Junta de Andalucia	RNM179},
organization = {Spanish Research Project	MAT2016-75889-R},
organization = {Iranian Center for International Scientific Studies and Collaborations (CISSC)},
publisher = {Springer},
keywords = {Bronze age},
keywords = {Deh Dumen graveyard},
keywords = {Pottery production},
keywords = {Sandwich-like structure},
keywords = {Temper},
title = {The pottery production from the Deh Dumen Bronze Age graveyard (South‑Western Iran): a chemical, mineralogical and physical study},
doi = {10.1186/s40494-021-00557-6},
author = {Oudbashi, Omid and Cultrone, Giuseppe V. and Arizzi, Anna},
}