1. Mass Cultural Council STARS Grant McCarty Middle School Parker Middle School Kimberley Connors-Hughes dig@archeducation.org

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3. Artifacts – Ceramic Pottery Clay deposits 10,000 years ago Artifact Most frequently found Different vessels for different purposes

8. Ceramics in the Field

10. Potsherds Sherds vs. Shards Diagnostics: potsherds used for analysis Typologies: How was it made and what was it used for? (Shapes Decorations Fabric) Chronology: When was it made? Petrography: Where was it made?

11. Typologies What part of the pot? What kind of pot? What was it used for? How old are the artifacts?

12. What were these pots used for?

13. Cooking Pots

14. Pithoi – Straight, thick sides, flat base, open rim

15. Grains and dried goods

16. Amphora – Two handles, tapered sides, pointed base

19. Body Sherd

21. Sherd Count Handles Rims Collars Bases Body Decorated Sort shapes and count

22. PotSherd Number B 66. IX. 16,113 Dig siteyear excavated grid # artifact # Unmarked Pottery = BZ year excavated

23. How Old Are the Sherds? BZ = Eastern Roman Empire 1,700 years old IV = Greek/Persian 2,400 years old VII = Israel 2,700 years old I = Israel (time of King Solomon) 3,000 years old IX = Egyptian (time of Pharaoh Tutankhamun) 3,350 years old

24. Amphora The amphora was a two-handled vase used for storage and transport. Krater "mixing-bowl" used for mixing wine with water. Pithoi Large Storage vessel Jar – flat, pedestal or round bottom with or without handle Cooking Pot Thick rim with rounded base Plate – Bowl Chalice – drinking vessel

26. Design Time! Your Ceramic Plate

31. Canaanite/Israelite

32. Letters

33. Architecture

34. Menander or Greek Key

35. Black Figure

37. HW - COMPLETED DESIGN WORKSHEETS TOMORROW

39. Stratigraphy

40. Mesopotamian Ceramics

41. Egyptian Ceramics

42. Canaanite Israelite Bronze Age Lamp Palestine during the Late Bronze Age is contemporary with Egyptian New Kingdom http://www.bu.edu/anep/lamps.html

44. Greek/Cypriot Pottery

46. Painted Pottery Dionysus Holding a Kantharos. –Red-figure –The Berlin Painter c. 490-480 B.C.