Daily Life Ornamented: The Medieval Persian City of Rayy (Repost)
Daily Life Ornamented: The Medieval Persian City of Rayy
Publisher: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago | pages: 64 | 2007 | ISBN: 1885923511 | PDF | 50,5 mb
Publisher: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago | pages: 64 | 2007 | ISBN: 1885923511 | PDF | 50,5 mb
Archaeologists work with broken fragments to build pictures of life in past societies. In many excavations, the most abundant fragments we work with are broken pieces of ceramic vessels and objects (we call them "sherds"), which we find by the thousands in a typical dig. These sherds can tell us quite remarkable things about the past: when a site was occupied in history, what trade contacts it had, and what kinds of everyday activities people were doing there. We can also learn about technologies and how artisans learned and adopted technologies across large areas.