How to Observe in Archaeology by Various
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Pottery. Four varieties have been observed: (1) buff ground with simple linear decoration applied direct on the gritty body-clay in lustreless pigments, black, chocolate-brown, or red, according to the firing; (2) greenish-buff face, hand-polished, with polychrome varnish decoration of vandykes and other geometric motives; (3) monochrome, black to grey, not burnished, but sometimes decorated with incised linear patterns; (4) plain red or buff (e.g. large urns in which Neolithic burials were found on the Carchemish citadel). All pottery hand-made. Figurines: rude clay and stone figurines are likely to occur, but have as yet been found very rarely in Neolithic strata. Copper implements: traces observed at Carchemish: to be looked for. II. Bronze Age (Early Hittite). (a) Early period to about 1500 B.C. Cist-graves made of rough stone slabs, near crude brick houses. Conjunction of such slabs with bricks would be an indication of an early Bronze Age site. Rare pot-burials survive. Implements. Spear-heads of long tapering form rounded sharply at the base which |
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