Not all of them do, but a surprisingly a lot of them do, especially in England. I realized when I started talking in front of everyone that I probably shouldn't have started that up as it's a far longer answer. ::sigh::
I also think we give archaeologists more credit than we should. At least for pottery and what I've read. Perhaps you might have seen blaring mistakes they've made as well when you've been researching, but I don't honestly think it's their fault as they aren't potters and don't know all the various techniques, terms or forms. While I am digressing here, one of the biggest mistakes I noticed (and others have as well) was Egyptian/French/English archaeologist finding some blue beads and blue pottery (turquoise in color) in a tomb and thought "AH! Faience pottery!" And labeled it as such. It wasn't. Faience is another name for Maiolica/Tin glazed pottery. This was what us potters call Egyptian Paste, which is a self glazing clay (basically). It doesn't work the same as faience and to this day, it is still sometimes referred to by the wrong name (which makes me crazy). :3
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Date: 2012-02-14 08:38 pm (UTC)I also think we give archaeologists more credit than we should. At least for pottery and what I've read. Perhaps you might have seen blaring mistakes they've made as well when you've been researching, but I don't honestly think it's their fault as they aren't potters and don't know all the various techniques, terms or forms. While I am digressing here, one of the biggest mistakes I noticed (and others have as well) was Egyptian/French/English archaeologist finding some blue beads and blue pottery (turquoise in color) in a tomb and thought "AH! Faience pottery!" And labeled it as such. It wasn't. Faience is another name for Maiolica/Tin glazed pottery. This was what us potters call Egyptian Paste, which is a self glazing clay (basically). It doesn't work the same as faience and to this day, it is still sometimes referred to by the wrong name (which makes me crazy). :3