Shouldered pot and three accompanying sherds
- Title:
- Shouldered pot and three accompanying sherds
- Collection:
- Selections from the Cornell Anthropology Collections
- Date:
- ca. 1700 BCE
- Site:
- "Ro-dinge Hoi 1822 405""a 1/2 jil"
- Location:
- "Ro-dinge Hoi 1822 405""a 1/2 jil"
- Country:
- Denmark
- ID Number:
- Anthr1882_007_0221_01
- Old Catalog Number:
- 882.7.221
- File Name:
- Anthr1882_007_0221_01.jpg
- Culture:
- Danish (culture or style)
Neolithic
Bronze Age - Style/Period:
- Neolithic
- Work Type:
- pots (containers)
sherds - Materials/Techniques:
- terracotta (clay material)
- Subject:
- denmark
antiquities (object genre)
Neolithic
scandinavia
pottery (visual works)
Danish (culture or style) - Measurement:
- 35 (broken) x 32 x 1 x 13.2 (base) x 23 (existing rim) (centimeters, height x diameter x thickness x diameter x diameter)
- Description:
- Tempered with medium to coarse grit, fabric is quite porous, color is 10YR 5/1 (gray), below shoulder there was no attempt to finish the surface while above the shoulder it was smoothed, hand modeled, hardness 3, flat base, biconical body, exterior color varies from dark reddish gray (10R 4/1) to weak red (10R 4/3).
- Bibliography:
- Jørgen Jensen, The Prehistory of Denmark (Methuen, 1982)
Deborah Olausson & Helle Vandkilde, Form, Function & Context: Material Culture Studies in Scandinavian Archaeology (Almqvist & Wiksell International, 2000)
Christopher Tilley, An Ethnography of the Neolithic: Early Prehistoric Societies in Southern Scandinavia (Cambridge, 1996)
Anders Fischer & Kristian Kristiansen (eds), The Neolithisation of Denmark: 150 Years of Debrate (JR Collis, 2002)
Helle Vandkilde, From Stone to Bronze: The Metalwork of the Late Neolithic and Earliest Bronze Age in Denmark (Jutland Archaeological Society, 1996)
"The Danish Stone Ages: An Outline". John Whittaker (1974)
Becker, C.J. 1945 "New Finds of Hafted Neolithic Celts." Acta Archaeologica, 16. 1949 "Hafted Neolithic Celts II." Acta Archaeologica, 20. 1956 "The Date of the Neolithic Settlement at Trelleborg." Acta Archaeologica, 27. 1971 "Late Paleolithic Finds from Denmark." Antiquity, 33.
Oldeberg, A. 1932 "Some Contributions to the Earliest History of the Sickle." Acta Archaeologica, 3.
Rud, Morsen, ed. 1966 Jeg Ser Pa Oldsager.
Sandklef, W. 1935 "Are Scandinavian Flint Saws to be considered as Leaf-Knives?” Acta Archaeologica, 5. - Archival Collection:
- Danish Neolithic stone tools
- Format:
- Image
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