Discussions of boundaries have enjoyed a renaissance in anthropological archaeology of
recent years, especially as conversations surrounding forced migration and border walls …

A representative collection of Early Islamic glazed ceramics from eleven sites in southern
Kazakhstan were characterized by compositional (n= 95) and lead isotope analysis (n= 33) …

Thirty samples of the unglazed ceramics selected from a range of medieval sites within the
Shu-Talas interfluve, Southern Kazakhstan, were used in the methodical study aimed to …

A representative group of lead-glazed ceramics excavated from the Medieval city of Aktobe,
in what is today southern Kazakhstan, was analyzed to reconstruct the production …

Compositional analysis of Chinese porcelain often uses the production region as an
analytical unit, whereas the possible compositional similarities and differences between …

This paper presents composition and microstructural analysis of seventy-four glazed
ceramics from the recently excavated tortkul sites of Arna, Talapty, and Zhargul in the lower …

This study draws on archaeological, stylistic, and technological evidence to explore ceramic
and brick production of the medieval Islamic period in the southern Karakum region in …

Blue‐white stonepaste wares were an outgrowth of the bursting innovations of Near Eastern
potters striving to imitate Chinese products during the Islamic period. Building on the results …

This article presents the results of a combined neutron activation analysis (NAA) and laser
ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) analysis of 243 locally …

The first glazes applied to small objects or to quartz or steatite beads were found in
archeological contexts dating from the fifth millennium, in Egypt, Mesopotamia and in the …