THE YASSIHÖYÜK STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCE:
Basic Ware Descriptions YHSS 10-7

	Buff Common	Buff Fine	Cooking Ware	Early Iron Age Handmade	Early Iron Age Buff
FREQUENCY YHSS 7 YHSS 8 YHSS 9 YHSS 10	% % % %	% % % %	% % % %	% % % %	% % % %
COLOR
Surfaces	Buff	Buff	Buff	Greys to Browns to Black	Buff
Core	Buff	Buff	Buff	Greys to Black	Buff
CLAY PREPARATION
Temper	Medium to fine grit	None	Medium to fine grit, chaff, mica	Medium grit	Medium to fine grit
Pores	Many, medium	None	Many, medium	Medium	Many, small
Compaction	Medium	High	Medium	High	High
Fracture	Relatively straight	Sharp, straight	Jagged	Ragged	Relatively straight
Hardness	Hard	Hard	Moderate	Quite friable	Relatively ard
Lime Spalling and Particles	Occasional	None	None	None	Typical
	Buff Common	Buff Fine	Cooking Ware	Early Iron Age Handmade	Early Iron Age Buff
FIRING
Atmosphere	Oxidizing	Oxidizing	Oxidizing	Reducing	Oxidizing
Kiln	Kiln	Kiln?	Open	Kiln?	Kiln
Temperature	700-900 C	800-900 C	<700-800 C?	<500-700 C	700-900 C
FORMING METHODS AND TOOLS
Primary	Wheel, tournette, coiling, moulding, slabs	Wheel	Coiling	Handforming (moulding, coiling)	Wheel, tournette, coiling, moulding
Secondary	Beating,scraping, rib	Turning?	.	Beating?	Turning
SURFACE TREATMENT
Finish	Smoothing, burnishing	Self-slip	Poorly smoothed	Burnished	Smoothed, (self-)slipping (some micaceous slip)
Decoration	Ridges, grooves	.	.	Incised	.
VESSEL FORMS
Number	Moderate	Few	One	Few	Limited [AT GORDION]
Variability	Low-moderate	Low	Moderate	High	Moderate
Effort per Vessel	Low - moderate	Moderate	Low	High	Moderate
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION
	Buff Common	Buff Fine	Cooking Ware	Early Iron Age Handmade	Early Iron Age Buff
Type of potter	Specialist	Specialist	Specialist?	Household	Specialist?
Scale of Production	Large	.	Moderate	Small	Moderate?
Organization	Workshop	Workshop	Workshop?	Household	Workshop?
Range of Distribution	Region	Region	Region	Household	Region?

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Related Bibliographic Information

Henrickson, Robert C.
1993 "Politics, Economics, and Ceramic Continuity at Gordion in the Late Second and First Millennia B.C." Social and Cultural Contexts of New Ceramic Technologies, edited by W. D. Kingery, pp. 89-176. Ceramics and Civilization VI. Westerville, OH: American Ceramic Society.

1994 "Continuity and Discontinuity in the Ceramic Tradition at Gordion during the Iron Age." Anatolian Iron Ages 3, Proceedings of the Third Anatolian Iron Ages Colloquium Held at Van, 6-12 August 1990, edited by D. French and A. Cilingiroglu, pp. 95-129. British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, Monograph No. 16. Ankara.

1995 "Hittite Pottery and Potters: The View from Late Bronze Age Gordion". Biblical Archaeologist 58(2) [June 1995]: 82-90. Text and illustrations online at American Schools of Oriental Research

1995 "A Comparison of Production of Large Storage Vessels in Two Ancient Ceramic Traditions." Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology IV, edited by P. B. Vandiver, J. Druzik, J. L. Galvan, I. A. Freestone, and G. S. Wheeler, pp. 553-572. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, Volume 352. Pittsburgh: Materials Research Society.

In press "The Craft of the Early Phrygian Potter." Türk Arkeoloji Dergisi.

Henrickson, Robert C., and Blackman, M. James
1996 "Large-Scale Production of Pottery at Gordion: A Comparison of the Late Bronze and Early Phrygian Industries." Paléorient 22(1): 67-87.

1999 "Hellenistic Production of Terracotta Roof Tiles Among the Ceramic Industries at Gordion". Oxford Journal of Archaeology 18: 307-326.

Voigt, Mary M.
1994 "Excavations at Gordion 1988-89: The Yassihöyük Stratigraphic Sequence." Anatolian Iron Ages 3: Proceedings of the Third Anatolian Iron Ages Colloquium Held at Van, 6-12 August 1990, edited by D. French and A. Cilingiroglu, pp. 265-293. British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, Monograph No. 16. Ankara.

1997 "Gordion." The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, Volume 2, pp. 426-431. New York: Oxford University Press.

Voigt, Mary M.; DeVries, Keith; Henrickson, Robert C.; Lawall, Mark; Marsh, David; Gürsan-Salzman, Ayse; and Young, T. Cuyler, Jr.
1997 "Fieldwork at Gordion: 1993-1995." Anatolica (Annuaire international pour les Civilisations de l'Asie Anterieure) 23: 1-59.

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