This document discusses several methods used to analyze ancient ceramics, including provenance studies and production techniques. It mentions optical mineralogy, neutron activation analysis, laser ablation coupled with plasma mass spectrometry, scanning electron microscopes, x-ray diffraction, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Case studies are presented on Phoenician bichrome ware and Middle Bronze Age jars. The document also describes an online database called The Levantine Ceramics Project for sharing ceramic analyses and research.

2. • Shape and function
• Provenance of paste and
technology of production
• Provenance of Slip and technology
of production
• Characterization of post
depositional Process

3. Collecting Visual Records Using Cheap Optics

4. Provenance of Paste and Technology of
Production
Optical
mineralogy

5. Method of presentation

6. Tel Dor Local Manufacture and Imports

7. Geological Layout of Phoenician Sites

8. Geological Layout of Phoenician Sites
Phoenician Bichrome ware

9. Provenance of Slip and Technology of
Production

10. Provenance of Slip and Technology of
Production

11. Provenance of Slip and Technology of
Production
A Achziv Local ProductionB Lebanese Provenance

12. Provenance of Slip and Technology of
Production

13. Characterization of Post Depositional Process
Middle Bronze Age
Jar, 40 Liter, found at
sea near Atilt

14. Characterization of Post Depositional Process
Middle Bronze Age
Jar, 40 Liter, found at
sea near Atilt

15. Processing and Distributing data in this Digital
Age

16. Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA)
Laser Ablation Coupled with Plasma
Mass Spectrometry (LA–ICP–MS)
Scanning Electron Microscopes with
Energy-Dispersive Spectroscopy
(SEM-EDS)
Methods of Exacting Chemical data for
Provenance and Technology of Production

17. X-Ray Diffraction
(XRD)
Fourier Transform
Infrared Spectroscopy
(FT-IR)
Additional mineralogical methods for
Provenance and Technology of Production

18. Additional mineralogical methods for
Provenance and Technology of Production
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR)
FT-IR done by Shlomo Shoval, the Open University

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Comparison Between Stylistic Aspects
and suggested Provenance
Paula Anna
Additional mineralogical methods for
Provenance and Technology of Production
Typology and style research: Anna Georgiadou, University of Cyprus

20. The Levantine Ceramics Project (LCP)
An open, interactive
website focused on
ceramics produced in
the Levant from the
Neolithic era (c. 5500
B.C.E.) through the
Ottoman period
(c. 1920 C.E.).
Professor Andrea Berlin of Boston University

21. The Levantine Ceramics Project (LCP)
Professor Andrea Berlin of Boston University
Here you can submit and find
information—whether long published or
newly discovered—about ceramic wares,
shapes, specific vessels, scientific
analyses, kiln sites, and chronology. The
LCP makes it simple to access, share,
use, and refine data, to link scholars and
to foster collaborative research.

22. The Tell Keisan
excavation project and
Jean-Baptiste Humbert
The Achziv
publication project;
Eran Arie, Michael
Press & Assaf Yasur-
Landau
Richard Jones

23. Circulation of IR1b 30 liter jars
Vol. calculations
according to
Zapassky,
Finkelstein and
Benenson 2006
Shape and function