Cooking vessels from Cabrera d’Anoia: Production strategies in a medieval kiln site
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https://doi.org/10.17561/aytm.v18i0.1480Keywords:
Craftsmen's Workshop, Medieval Kiln Site, Cooking wares, Archaeometric CharecterizationAbstract
The medieval kiln site of Cabrera d’Anoia (Barcelona) was set up as a high impact producing centre specialized in utilitarian cooking wares fired in a reducing atmosphere during the main centuries of Medieval Ages.The recent approach from ananalytical standpoint to the vast amount of pottery sherds rescued from the wasters’ dump implied a significant improvement for the knowledge of such vessels scarcely characterized in the Iberian Peninsula, broadly speaking. This piece of research, including the chemical, mineralogical and petrographic characterization by means of X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF), X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) and observation of thin-sectioned samples under polarising microscope, has allowed the creation of a reference group for the kiln.The whole consideration of these data joined to the excavation results from the fieldwork carried out in late eighties offers a deep insight which facilitates the comprehension of the production and landscape exploitation strategies within this singular producing centre, active during more than three centuries.
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