White Ware
White Ware or "Vaisselle Blanche", effectively a form of limestone plaster used to make vessels, is the first precursor to clay pottery developed in the Levant that appeared in the 9th millennium BC, during the pre-pottery (aceramic) neolithic period.[1][2][3] It is not to be confused with "whiteware", which is both a term in the modern ceramic industry for most finer types of pottery for tableware and similar uses, and a term for specific historical types of earthenware made with clays giving an off-white body when fired.
History
White Ware was commonly found in
Dark Faced Burnished Ware, the first real pottery, came as a development from this limestone prototype.[9]
Manufacturing
This crumbly form of proto-pottery was manufactured by pulverizing
basketry on the exterior of some vessels suggest that some were shaped into large basket shapes.[13] It is likely these larger vessels were mainly used for dry goods storage.[1][2] Some of the White Ware vessels found were decorated with incisions and thick stripes of red ochre.[12][14] Other uses of this material included plastering of skulls and as a floor or wall covering.[15] Some lime plaster floors were also painted red, and a few were found with designs imprinted on them.[16]
See also
References
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- ^ Moore, A.M.T. (1978). The Neolithic of the Levant. Oxford University, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis. pp. 346–349 & 436–442.
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