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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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