Gypsum plaster, its use and relationship with neolithic fertile crescent pottery technology

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In the Neolithic of the Fertile Crescent, the practice of making containers from a mixture obtained by burning gypsum and lime, as well as coating ceramic vessels with them, was widespread. This study examined the technology for manufacturing presumably plaster vessels made with sequential application of elements technology, by coating the mold, as well as clay vessels with plaster coating originating from the settlement of Yarim-Tepe I (Neolithic, Northern Mesopotamia). This study includes technological, X-ray fluorescence (XRF), spherulite, Raman spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy with energy-dispersive X-ray microanalysis (SEM-EDS) analysis. It was established that the main raw material is gypsum plaster with artificially added temper – dung and clay in small concentrations. The presence of another type of organic matter is possible as evidenced by the data of an experiment that showed the impossibility of making a vessel using sequential application of elements technology at a low concentration of dung.

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Natalia Petrova

Institute of Archaeology RAS

Хат алмасуға жауапты Автор.
Email: petrovanatalya7@mail.ru
Ресей, Moscow

Anna Babenko

Institute of Archaeology RAS

Email: mnemosina_a@mail.ru
Ресей, Moscow

Anton Yakushev

Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy and Geochemistry RAS

Email: antemp@inbox.ru
Ресей, Moscow

Ekaterina Yanovskaya

Institute of Archaeology RAS

Email: katherinyanovskaya@gmail.com
Ресей, Moscow

Evgeny Zubavichus

Institute of Archaeology RAS

Email: teremion@gmail.com
Ресей, Moscow

Elizaveta Chernobakhtova

Institute of Archaeology RAS; Moscow Lomonosov State University; “Stolichnoye arkheologicheskoye byuro” LLC

Email: elizaveta.chernobakhtova@gmail.com
Moscow; Moscow; Moscow

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2. Fig. 1. Fragment of а gypsum plaster vessel with weaving prints

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3. Fig. 2. Microphotographs of the pottery paste of gypsum plaster vessels made with sequential application of elements technology (1, 3–6), and a gypsum plaster-coated ceramic vessel (2)

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4. Fig. 3. Fragment of a gypsum plaster vessel (sample No. 9) made with sequential application of elements (slabs) technology

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5. Fig. 4. A fragment of a ceramic vessel (sample No. 6) covered with gypsum plaster

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6. Fig. 5. Experiment to create a gypsum plaster vessel using sequential application of elements (slabs) technology

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7. Fig. 6. Spherulites in cross-polarized light from gypsum plaster (1, 2) and clay (3–6) vessels. Scale bar: 10 µm

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8. Fig. 7. Results of Raman spectroscopy

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9. Fig. 8. Maps of the elements distribution on microsamples of temper in the pottery paste

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