Vroom J. Byzantine to modern pottery in the Aegean

An introduction and field guide. — Parnassus press, Bijleveld, 2005. — 223 р.Byzantine to modern pottery in the Aegean is the first general introduction and easy-to-use field guide for Medieval and Post-Medieval pottery in this part of the Mediterranean. It encompasses 76 wares most commonly found during excavations, surveys and in museums, dating from the 7 th century until the 20th century. This book opens up a neglected area of Mediterranean archaeology for fieldworkers and everybody interested in the history of the Aegean after the Roman era. Whether ceramic specialists involved in processing pottery, students or readers with a general interest, all will find here a much needed overview and indispensable reference work for Post-Classical ceramics in the Aegean region.
βυζαντινέ to modern pottery in the Aegean offers a detailed description of the most important wares from the Early Byzantine period, the Middle Byzantine period, the Late Byzantine/Frankish period, the Turkish/Venetian period to the Modern period. In addition it includes a discussion of the chronological problems, a historical time-line, an at-a-glance overview of the main shapes of table wares and kitchen wares in the Aegean, as well as a glossary of technical terms and the essential literature for each period.dr. joanita vroom is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of World Archaeology at the University of East Anglia, Norwich (uk).
She is active as pottery specialist for many field projects, and has studied almost all major collections of Medieval and Post-Medieval pottery in the Aegean.
Earlier she published her PhD-thesisd/ferdw- tiquity; Ceramics and Society in the Aegean from the yth to the 20th Century A.C. (2003) in the Archaeological Studies Series of Leiden University (nl).