Colored ceramics

Colored pottery is a collective term for ceramics from the expiring prehistory in the Near East. Characteristic geometric figures, scratched or painted, later representational painting, were important features for the archaeological determination of age . Today, with thermoluminescence dating , a measuring method for determining the absolute age of ceramics is also available.

Important sites are, for example, Çatalhöyük , Hacılar Höyük , Tell Halaf , Naqada

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  Cattle head from Çatalhöyük

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  Painted vessel from Hacılar Höyük , approx. 5300 BC Chr.

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  Decorated ceramic vessels, Naqada II, approx. 3500 BC Chr.

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  Bowl of Halaf ware

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  Susa approx. 4000 BC Chr.

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  Yangshao culture corded ceramics, approx. 4800 BC Chr.

literature

• Max von Oppenheim : Tell Halaf . A new culture in the oldest Mesopotamia. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1931, OCLC 186977637 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
• Karl Hentze: Finds in ancient China . Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1967, OCLC 164125684 .
• Guido Kaschnitz von Weinberg : Selected writings . Mann, Berlin, Mannheim 1965, OCLC 603818839 .