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The Laboratory for Ceramic Research
The aim of the technological analyses is to establish choice of raw materials, manufacturing techniques and vessel functions. Lund University
Saint Mary's Archaeology Lab Ceramics Database
http://www.smu.ca/academic/arts/anthropology/ceramics/welcome.html
This project is meant to be an aid to help with identification of ceramics found on historic period archaeological sites in Nova Scotia.
Pueblo Pottery
http://www.ipl.org/div/pottery/
An online exhibit from the Internet Public Library on the pottery of the Pueblo Indians of Southwestern US. History, pueblo life and pottery styles, bibliography, gallery and glossary.
Medieval Pottery
http://www.spoilheap.co.uk/medpot.htm
Introduction to Post-Roman pottery with a photo gallery of examples.
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.
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.
Ceramics Paulus Florizoone
http://users.skynet.be/fb758062/
Belgium company specializing in conservation and restoration of earthenware from pre-historic, Roman, medieval and post-medieval sites and producing replicas of archaeological finds.
Ceramic Petrology
http://www.postex.demon.co.uk/petrology.htm
An introduction to the techniques of clay sourcing for ceramic analysis.
Anglo Saxon and Viking Pottery
http://www.regia.org/pottery.htm
Detailed history of pottery making techniques in Britain from Regia Anglorum.
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.