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Olomouc-Slavonín (I) Sídliště kultury s vypíchanou keramikou
| Title in English | Olomouc-Slavonín (I) Settlement with Stroked pottery culture |
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| Year of publication | 2000 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | The thin-walled ceramics (pear-shaped vessels and bowls) was made without measurable amounts of temper (grog), from which it flows that these forms which much more difficult to work in later stages of production , i.e. shaping, drying and firing. The thick-walled kettle-shaped vessels have a high amount of temper in the form of angular grains of quartz. The source of this temper can be assumed to have been the layer of crystalline cobbles dividing the loess from Pleistocene clays (Zapletal 1996, 1). The cobble were probably mechanically crushed, sorted and subsequently added to the raw material. The firing temperature in the collection of ceramics being examined is convincing evidence for the existence of specialized firing kilns (Kovárník 1988). Heating structures or bread ovens were clearly not used for firing as experiments with these items have shown a temperature range from 50-250 C (Petrasch 1986, 33-83). An important phenomenon is the difference in the firing temperatures of thin-walled forms and the rough, kettle-shaped vessels. The kettle-shaped vessels were fired at temperatures ranging from 850-1000 C, while the thin-walled forms show a wide range of firing temperatures, from 200-900 C. In one case, a shard had not been fired at all. Stroke-decorated ceramics analyzed in other areas also show a fairly wide range of firing temperatures. |
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