This volume is based on a session from the 2012 TAG conference (Liverpool University) and includes papers delivered at the conference and others submitted subsequently. Contributors are drawn from both academic and commercial archaeology and the diverse range of subjects is intended to help to bridge the unfortunate gap between some of the sub-disciplines which constitute archaeology in its broadest sense. Papers include: Pots as Things: Value, meaning and medieval pottery (Ben Jervis), Vehicles for Thought: Terrets in the British Iron Age (Anna Lewis), Addressing the Body: Corporeal meanings and artefacts in early England (Toby Martin), All form one and one form all: The relationship between pre-burial function and the form of early Anglo-Saxon cremation urns (Gareth Perry), Plates and other vessels from early modern and recent graves (Beth Richardson), Not so much a pot, more an expensive luxury: Commercial archaeology and the decline of pottery analysis (Paul Blinkhorn), Tradition and Change: The production and consumption of late post-medieval and early modern pottery in southern Yorkshire (Chris Cumberpatch), The organisation of late Bronze Age to early Iron Age society in the Peak District National Park (Kevin Cootes).

Lets Color Some Pottery, original sketchbook ideas and designs for ceramic pottery by New England and Florida based painter and potter Janvier Miller. This is a coloring book for all ages. The drawings are based on drawings for her ceramic pottery designs.
Drawings include sketches of butterflies, boats, fish, birds, circus rings with elephants, acrobats and clowns, beach scenes and cats. Wonderful compositions that include pottery set in a scene. Such as monkey with a bowel, frogs sitting on a vase in a lily pond, a swimmer with a crab plate, and swimming mermaids. Sail boats travel across the page with flags flapping, fish and ducks plates with geese, and beach scenes with kids playing. Get out your crayons and colored pencils for hours of coloring fun.

In Palace Ware Across the Neo-Assyrian Imperial Landscape, Alice Hunt investigates the social and symbolic meaning of Palace Ware by its cultural audience in the Neo-Assyrian central and annexed provinces, and the unincorporated territories, including buffer zones and vassal states. Traditionally, Palace Ware has been equated with imperial identity. By understanding these vessels as a vehicle through which interregional and intercultural relationships were negotiated and maintained she reveals their complexity gaining a more nuanced view of imperial dynamics. Palace Ware Across the Neo-Assyrian Imperial Landscape is the first work of its kind; providing in-depth analysis of the formal and fabric characteristic, production technology, and raw material provenance of Palace Ware, and locating these data within the larger narratives of power, presentation, symbol and meaning that shaped the Neo-Assyrian imperial landscape.

In the introduction to John P. Hart's study on Nacogdoches's historic Washington Square Mound, Timothy K. Perttula notes that publication of Hart's finding is long overdue. The Washington Square mound site, he describes, "is a Caddo multiple mound center" and is "one of the few known Caddo mound sites in the Neches-Angelina river basins in East Texas, and the study of its archeological deposits has contributed important and unique information on the lifeways, social and political organization, and religious beliefs of ancestral Caddo peoples" who occupied the area circa A.D. 1250-1425. Hart's research reveals invaluable details about Caddo tribal life, particularly derived from decorative and engraved pottery retrieved from the Mound, and, for the first time, makes this information available to a wider audience.

Colourful and dynamic art inspires me. However, I never expected it to lead me on a life-changing journey. A physical and intellectual journey. Physical because it involved the discovery and examination of vases of extraordinary beauty from Venice and Murano, Italy. Intellectual because it involved deep reflection about the meaning of art and its function as a "repository and conduit of culture." My journey centered around the work of Vittorio Ferro. With a working life in the glass industry of sixty-seven years, he was one of the world's greatest masters of murrine glass. My interest fast became multi-dimensional, I began photographing vases and went to Venice and Murano to find out more. Publishing became important to complete what had become a significant and passionate part of my life. This book records my journey. A "vasegraphy" (va: z-e-grafi) or study of sixty-seven rare murrine vases made by Vittorio Ferro, one-third signed, revealed in a kaleidoscope of Venice and Murano, and my new understanding of art. A photographic journey with a fresh approach to glass.

Petrography is the minute examination by microscope of rock and mineral samples for the purpose of determining precisely their mineralogical composition. In this groundbreaking work, James B. Stoltman applies quantitative as well as qualitative methods to petrography of Native American ceramics. As explained in Ceramic Petrography and Hopewell Interaction, by adapting petrography to the study of pottery, Stoltman offers a powerful new set of tools that enable fact-based and rigorous identification of pottery. Stoltman's subject is the cultural interaction among the "Hopewell interaction sphere," societies of the Ohio Valley region and contemporary peoples of the Southeast. Inferring social and commercial relationships between disparate communities by determining whether objects found in one settlement originated there or elsewhere is a foundational technique of archaeology. The technique, however, rests on the informed but necessarily imperfect visual inspection of objects by archaeologists. Petrography greatly amplifies archaeologists' ability to determine objects' provenance with greater precision and less guesswork. Using petrography to study a vast quantity of pottery samples sourced from Hopewell communities, Stoltman is able for the first time to establish which items are local, which are local but atypical, and which originated elsewhere. Another exciting possibility with petrography is to further determine the home source of objects that came from afar. Thus, combining traditional qualitative techniques with a wealth of new quantitative data, Ceramic Petrography and Hopewell Interaction offers a map of social and trade relationships between communities within and beyond the Hopewell interaction sphere with much greater precision and confidence than in the past. Ceramic Petrography and Hopewell Interaction provides a clear and concise explanation of petrographic methods, Stoltman's findings about Hopewell and Southeastern ceramics in various sites, and the fascinating discovery that visits to Hopewell centers by Southeastern Native Americans were not only for trade purposes but more for such purposes as pilgrimages, vision- and power-questing, healing, and the acquisition of knowledge.

Cats fascinate us in everything they do. Whether they're hunting, playing, stalking, sleeping, or just staring out the window, they do it with style And now stained glass artist Robin Anderson has captured the many facets of a cat's life in "It's a Cat's Life " -- a stunning new collection of stained glass patterns. Now, you can create panels of cats doing what cats do best -- sleeping, bathing, playing, and, yes, staring out the window. This book offers 30 vivid, detailed, and most of all, realistic patterns of cats and kittens, featuring a variety of breeds and colorings. Celebrate the cat -- and the cat lover in you -- with "It's a Cat's Life "

23 full size equine stained glass projects depicting the sport of eventing. Patterns include an all- purpose saddle nightlight, a 3-D log jump, 17 suncatchers representing the dressage, cross-country and stadium phases of eventing, and four Christmas ornaments. Helpful hints, pctures, and instructions for projects are also included.

The models in this project book are designed to be robust and simple to make. The models are built using basic pottery techniques and will help to reinforce and build on the skills introduced in our "Clay modelling" series: - "Simple Animals volumes 1 & 2." And the slightly more complex project book "Upright Animals." We use the same style of step by step text instruction backed by still photos of each significant stage. Instructions with worksheets allow you to make each of the figures shown on the cover. Also included is a section I have called "Variation on a Theme" which introduces an alternative style of fashioning the arms, effectively doubling the number of models available to make. Design Your Own Rollifolk Person is meant as a challenge to students who learn to apply the techniques and can demonstrate the skills to produce their own models based on the techniques.

Decorative arts is my passion. Create comfortable spaces for the enjoyment and admiration to whom observe, it's for me indispensable. I studied Interior Design and worked as a Graphic Artist in my own studio through 15 years. In the last years I was taking Museum courses in the University of Puerto Rico and in the Museum and Humanistic Studies of the Turabo University. Creativity is my goal and I understand that it's a must to use this to create decorative pieces with illumination using stained glass. I took a Stained Glass course in the Arts and Crafts Workshop of the University of Puerto Rico and began to design using stained glass as a focal point. I joined my passion for the arts and the stained glass technique to create unique pieces that were decorative and functional. Use stained glass from another perspective is my challenge. I discovered the Arts and Crafts Movement and immediately identified myself with this style. Their distinctive characteristics are simple design, good materials and well done work, because of this, is no wondering that is a fundamental element in interior design until today. I studied the development of the Arts and Crafts Movement and I think that it's a style where many crafts artists and industrial designers can identify and work to contribute for the history of modern furniture and decorative arts in Puerto Rico. I exhort to observe, support and wonder with the work of the crafts artists that today contribute with their work for the enjoyment of the art lovers and collectors. This book is a compilation of my first projects patterns as an artisan. Hope you enjoy the Caribbean Inspirations of my Puerto Rican Culture.

What's cuter than a bouncy, cuddly puppy? A portrait of that puppy in stained glass Best in Show: Puppy Class captures 28 purebred puppies in poses ranging from portraits to play, with patterns designed for glass artists of all levels of expertise.

This book is an analysis of a collection of artefacts from the Neolithic period of the southern Levant. Although they have traditionally been identified as human images, the relationship of some of them to naturalistic human anatomy is tenuous, and, drawing on comparative examples from other periods and locations, Estelle Orrelle interprets them as images of Gods. Situating the artefacts in the context of the Neolithic transition, she shows how a Darwinian symbolic origins theory can explain the emergence of this iconography; that it lies in ancient sexual selection strategies, as power relations changed from an original social contract underpinned by female ritual power, to a new social contract driven by competing male elites."

This book surveys four thousand years of pottery production and presents totally unexpected fresh information, using technical and analytical methods. It provides a study of ancient pottery of Jerusalem, from the earliest settlement to the medieval city and brings to light important aspects that cannot be discovered by the commonly accepted morphological pottery descriptions. New insights include the discovery that third millennium BCE pottery appears to have been produced by nomadic families, middle Bronze Age ceramics were made by professional potters in the Wadi Refaim, the pottery market of the Iron Age II pottery cannot be closely dated and is still produced during the first centuries after the exile, and the new shapes are made by Greek immigrant potters. The book contains a chapter on the systematics of ceramic studies and numerous notes about the potters themselves.

Over 360 beautiful color photos display machine-made marbles in many varieties. They were produced by American manufacturers, including Alley Agate, Champion, Jackson Marble, Master Glass, Playrite, and Vacor. Marbles displayed include Cat's Eyes, Glassies, Moss Agates, Opals, Patches, Swirls, and more. The text provides fascinating facts about each company's marble production. A helpful rating system indicates which marble types from each firm were its good, better, or best work. A bibliography and index are included. Values for the marbles displayed are found in the captions. This book will be a thrill for all who enjoy a passion for beautiful glass.

Learn techniques, tips, and tricks to turn your next clay creation into a stunning sensation Packed with pictures and loaded with ideas, Krafty Kiddos Clay will put you on the road to success Pages are easy and fun to read with concise text and lots of pictures. Read the book in its entirety, jump around, or use it as a reference guide. It's up to you Learn how to make banks, puzzles, vases, and plaques. The projects are FUN, the ideas are SIMPLE, and the techniques are EASY In This Book: - 100 Awesome Ideas - Tips, Tricks & Techniques - Types of Clay - Paint vs Glaze - Mosaics: How To - No Kiln? No Problem - Fire Pits - Troubleshooting Tips ...and so much more Print & E-reader Formats Available Pick up your copy of Krafty Kiddos Clay today