THE YASSIHÖYÜK STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCE:
Sample Ware Descriptions YHSS 6-3

	Grey Common	Black Polished	Grey Burnished	Buff Fine	Greek Black Glazed
FREQUENCY YHSS 3 YHSS 4 YHSS 5 YHSS 6	[n.a.] 76 % 54 % 73 %	- 4 % 3 % -	[n.a.] 8 % 3 % 2 %	0 <<1 % 12 % 10 %	- - 1 % 1 %
COLOR
Surface	Greys	Black	Greys	Buff	Black
Core	Greys	Black	Greys	Buff	Orange
CLAY PREPARATION
Temper	Medium to fine grit	None	Medium to fine grit	Fine to none	None
Pores	Many, medium	None	Many, medium	Some, small	None
Compaction	Medium	High	Medium	High	High
Fracture	Jagged	Sharp, straight	Jagged	Sharp, straight	Sharp, straight
Hardness	Moderate	Hard	Moderate	Hard	Hard
Lime Spalling and Particles	Occasional	None	Rare	None	None
FIRING
	Grey Common	Black Polished	Grey Burnished	Buff Fine	Greek Black Glazed
Atmosphere	Reducing	Reducing	Reducing	Oxidizing	Reducing and Oxidizing
Kiln/Open?	Kiln	Kiln	Kiln?	Kiln	Kiln
Temperature	700-900 C	800-900 C	800-900 C	700-900 C	700-1000 C
FORMING METHODS AND TOOLS
Primary	Wheel, tournette, coiling, moulding, slabs	Wheel, moulding	Handforming (coiling, moulding etc)	Wheel	Wheel, moulding
Secondary	Beating,scraping, rib	Turning?	.	Turning, shaving	Turning
SURFACE TREATMENT
FINISH	Smoothing, slipping (some micaceous), burnishing	Slip/wash, polishing	Slip, burnish	Slip, burnish	'Glaze'
Decoration	Ridges, grooves	Incised, stamped	.	Paint, colored wash/slip	Added red or white paint
VESSEL FORMS
	Grey Common	Black Polished	Grey Burnished	Buff Fine	Greek Black Glazed
Number	Many	Few	Few	Few	Limited [AT GORDION]
Variability	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Low
Effort per Vessel	Low - moderate	High	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate - high
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION
Type of potter	Specialist	Specialist	Specialist	Specialist	Specialist
Scale of Production	Large	Small	Moderate	Moderate	Large
Organization	Workshop	Workshop	Workshop	Workshop	Workshop
Range of Distribution	Region	Region	Region	Region	'International'

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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 "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.

Sams, G. Kenneth.
1994 The Early Phrygian Pottery The Gordion Excavations 1950-1973: Final Reports, Vol. IV. Philadelphia: University Museum Press.

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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