Southampton Ceramics Research Group
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The group's research centres on the integration of scientific/empirical data and rigorous methodological and theoretical critique.
Ceramic studies at Southampton cover a timescale from the Neolithic to the contemporary and ethnographic, and focus on areas of the world as widespread as the Caribbean, Central and Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean, Egypt and the Sudan, India, Afghanistan, the Pacific and of course many areas of the UK. The members focus in particular on pottery as indicator of diet and subsistence; innovation and the transmission of skill in ceramic technology; cultural change as reflected in ceramic production and consumption; industrial ceramics; and contact, supply, trade and economic networks.
Intrinsically linked to the group's ceramics research is the work of members on stone artefacts, which crosses over with pottery studies at the borders of geology, petrology and other scientific techniques, and often makes use of the same facilities. Cross-fertilisation between these groups is regular and fruitful, both in theoretical and methodological terms.
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Avenue Campus
Highfield Road
Southampton
SO17 1BF
United Kingdom
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University of Southampton
University Road
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
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2024-06-19 14:17:31