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Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology (Longacre 1991; Costin 2000) has been particularly useful, among other aims, for understanding all the stages and parameters involved in pottery production, such as raw materials selection or paste recipes used by the potters. Moreover, analysing modern pottery-making communities that exploit their natural resources can provide an insight into the raw materials available in the area that could have also been used in the past. Ethnoarchaeological case studies were also used in order to test hypotheses in provenance studies (Arnold et al.1991; Arnold et al.2000). More recently, Buxeda i Garrigós et al.(2003) have proposed the term “ethnoarchaeometry” for this type of approach.
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We are grateful to the village of Pabillonis that hosted us very kindly. In particular, we would like to thank G. Piras and his family for sharing their knowledge with us, and the mayor of the village (Dott. Marco Dessì) for his support. Special thanks are also due to Sara Santoro, co-director of the project, to the entire team working on the Sardinian materials, and to B. Annis and P. van Dommelen for their interest in our research. This research is part of the Spanish–Italian Action (HI2005-0067) funded by Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia and MIUR and also of the project Poblamiento y cerámica en las Islas Baleares durante la Antigüedad tardía: el caso de Mallorca (CERPOANTAR), HUM2005-0996/HIST, funded by Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, now Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, also with FEDER funding.
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Cau, M.A., Montana, G., Pagliarello, D., Tsantini, E. (2011). Ethnoarchaeometric Study of the Traditional Cooking Ware Production Centre of Pabillonis (Sardinia): Investigating Raw Materials and Final Products. In: Turbanti-Memmi, I. (eds) Proceedings of the 37th International Symposium on Archaeometry, 13th - 16th May 2008, Siena, Italy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14678-7_6
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