We are delighted to announce the first publication in our new British
Archaeological Reports (BAR) series, Studies in Contemporary and
Historical Archaeology.
Studies in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology is new series of edited
and single-authored volumes intended to make available recent and current
work on the archaeology of the recent and contemporary past. The series
brings together contributions from academic historical archaeologists,
professional archaeologists and practitioners from cognate disciplines who
are engaged with archaeological material and practices. The series is
edited by Dan Hicks and Joshua Pollard. A number of volumes are in press,
and we shall keep the list up to date as these are published.
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The Historical Archaeology of Pottery. Supply and Demand in the Lower
Rhineland, AD 1400-1800 An archaeological study of ceramic production,
distribution and use in the city of Duisburg and its hinterland
David Gaimster
Studies in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology 1 (BAR S1518, 2006)
£37.00. 270 pages; 131 figures, maps, plans, drawings, graphs and tables.
Eight data Appendices.
This study of post-medieval ceramic production and consumption in the
Lower Rhineland is prefaced by a survey of previous work and approaches in
the field. With the initiation of large-scale urban excavations in the
Lower Rhineland during the 1980s, particularly in the town of Duisburg, an
extensive sequence of pottery has been recovered dating from c. AD 1400 to
1800, enabling archaeologists for the first time to re-examine traditional
chronologies, attributions and socio-economic interpretations. This survey
comprises 95 individual assemblages of pottery from sites excavated in
Duisburg and from towns and rural sites in the region.
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