Investigating the pottery firing techniques in western Slovenia during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages using FTIR and petrographic analysis

Vinazza, Manca (author), Chatzimpaloglou, Petros (author)

This study focuses on the analysis of pottery firing techniques during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages in the Karst region of Slovenia. Given the absence of archaeological structures, we adopt -ed an alternative research approach, employing FTIR and ceramic thin-section analysis. The archaeological material underwent study using a model derived from archaeological experiments, which encompassed firing techniques in both pits and pottery kilns. Our research successfully identified that various firing structures were utilized during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages.

• Language: English
• Keywords: pottery, firing techniques, experimental archaeology, petrographic analysis, FTIR - Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy analysis, Karst, Slovenia
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Geographic coverage: Kras (Slovenija)
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 412-430
• Numbering: Letn. 51
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-167697
• UDC: 902.3:66
• ISSN on article: 1408-967X
• DOI: 10.4312/dp.51.19
• COBISS.SI-ID: 203707395
• Publication date in RUL: 07.03.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Documenta Praehistorica : Poročilo o raziskovanju paleolitika, neolitika in eneolitika v Sloveniji
• Shortened title: Doc. Praehistor.
• Publisher: Oddelek za arheologijo Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani, Oddelek za arheologijo Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani, Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 1408-967X
• COBISS.SI-ID: 98765312

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
• Description: A creative commons license that bans commercial use, but the users don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Raziskovanje tehnik žganja keramike v zahodni Sloveniji v pozni bronasti in starejši železni dobi na podlagi FTIR in petrografskih analiz

Abstract

Študija je usmerjena v analizo tehnik žganja keramike v pozni bronasti in starejši železni dobi na Krasu v Sloveniji. Zaradi odsotnosti arheoloških struktur smo uporabili alternativni raziskovalni pristop, in sicer FTIR in keramične petrografske analize. Arheološki material smo analizirali s po-moè jo modela, ki smo ga razvili pri arheološkem raziskovalnem delu, žganju v jami in žganju v peči. S pomočjo raziskave smo uspešno prepoznali različne tehnike žganja, ki so bile v uporabi v pozni bronasti in starejši železni dobi.

• Keywords: tehnike žganja keramike, eksperimentalna arheologija, petrografska analiza, FTIR - infrardeča spektroskopija s Fourierovo transformacijo

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P6-0247
• Name: Arheologija