| lintel | A horizontal beam of wood or stone that supports the wall above a doorway or window.
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| hieroglyph | Originally, the pictographic script of ancient Egypt; any depictive, art-related system of writing, such as that of Mesoamerica; may also refer to an individual symbol.
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| sherds | Broken pieces of pottery.
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| ceramic | Fired clay.
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| pottery | Ceramic container or vessel.
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| clay | A very fine-grained sediment, deposited in water and usually found in former lake or stream deposits; raw material for making pottery.
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| paste | Mix of clay and other materials used to make pottery.
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| temper | A nonplastic substance intentionally added to clay in order to reduce breakage caused by shrinkage and firing.
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| coil technique | Pottery vessel made by ropes of clay used to build up the walls of the vessel.
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| paddle-and-anvil technique | Use of two tools to press and shape the walls of a ceramic vessel.
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| slab technique | Pottery vessel made by rolling a single sheet of clay into a cylinder and attaching a base.
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| molded | Pottery produced by pressing clay into prepared molds.
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| wheel-thrown | Pottery produced on a wheel with distinctive manufacturing characteristics.
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| hand-thrown | Pottery made by hand.
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| burnishing | Decorative technique for pottery involving smoothing or polishing of the surface.
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| brushing | Decorative technique for pottery involving roughening of the surface.
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| impressing | Decorative technique for pottery involving impressions or incisions made with various small tools.
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| incising | Decorative technique for potteryinvolving cutting or carving lines and other designs in the surface of the clay.
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| cord-marked | Decorative technique for pottery involving impressions of cord-wrapping in the clay.
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| punctate | Decorative technique for pottery involving impressions of circular depressions in the surface of the clay.
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| appliqué | Decorative technique for pottery involving the addition of clay pieces to the original clay vessel.
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| slip | A coating of the surface of a ceramic vessel for decorative or functional reasons.
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| glaze | A metallic or glass mixture used to change the surface of the pottery vessel for decorative purposes.
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| resist | A decorative technique for pottery involving materials which disappear on firing and leave a negative color on the surface of the vessel.
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| kiln | Fire for making pottery; can be open or closed, updraft or downdraft.
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| waster | Pottery that broke or warped in the process of firing.
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| rim sherd | Fragment of broken pottery that includes part of the rim of the vessel.
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| body sherd | Fragment of broken pottery that does not include the rim of the vessel.
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| base | The lower part of a ceramic vessel.
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| shoulder | The transition zone where the body ends and the neck begins on a ceramic vessel.
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| neck | The upper zone on a pottery vessel between the shoulder and the rim.
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| collar | A vessel rim with added clay material.
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| orifice | The opening or mouth of a ceramic vessel.
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| profile | A cross-section of archaeological or geological deposits showing the stratigraphy, sequence of layers. Also, the cross-section of the walls of a ceramic vessel, a measure of shape.
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| coefficient of stylistic variability | A statistical measure of the strength of association among stylistic attributes.
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| ceramic petrography | Microscopic technique for study of the mineral composition of pottery.
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| obsidian | A glassy rock produced from sand in volcanic conditions, used for making stone tools in the past.
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| polychrome | Several colors; polychrome pottery is painted with at least two colors.
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