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Title African pottery roulettes, past and present : techniques, identification and distribution / edited by A. Haour [and others]
Published Oxford, UK ; Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 196 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Section 1. Modern roulettes in sub-Saharan Africa -- section 2. A method of identification for rolled impressed decorations
Summary African Pottery Roulettes Past and Present considers ethnographic, museological and archaeological approaches to pottery-decorating tools called roulettes, that is to say, short lengths of fibre or wood that are rolled over the surface of a vessel for decoration. This book sets out, for the first time, a solid typology for the classification of African pottery decorated with such tools, and forges a consensus on common methodology and standards. It gives an overview of history of research into roulette decoration in Africa and elsewhere Jomon Japan, Neolithic Europe, Siberia, and New York amon
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Contains text in English and French
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Subject Pottery, African -- Technique
Pottery, African -- Identification
Artists' tools -- Africa
Pottery -- Africa -- Marks
ART -- Ceramics.
CRAFTS & HOBBIES -- Pottery & Ceramics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Artists' tools
Pottery, African
Pottery -- Marks
céramique -- décoration -- outil -- Afrique -- études diverses.
céramique -- classification -- Afrique -- études diverses.
céramique -- technique -- Afrique -- études diverses.
Africa
Genre/Form Field guides
Form Electronic book
Author Haour, Anne.
ISBN 9781842178751
184217875X
1299485022
9781299485020