ARCHEOL 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Montmorillonite, Clay Minerals, Silt
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A ceramic is an inorganic, nonmetallic solid prepared by the heating or cooling of a plastic raw material, such as glass or clay. May have a crystalline (pottery) or an amorphous (glass) structure. Short-lived , but (once broken) relatively durable, unusable, and not very valuable. Migration of people, pots, or their contents (trade), or ideas (culture) Munsell: organized color of pottery in a systematic fashion. Clay: invisibly small particles of layered silicates formed by mechanical and chemical. Temper: non-plastic filler added to clay to prevent excessive shrinkage--sand, silt, Paste: anthropogenic rather than geological, raw material. Fabric: artificial geological material of a ceramic vessel. Kaoline and hallyosite clays are 1:1 clays. Smectite and montmorillonite clays are 2:1 clays volcanic ash, etc. Environment / changes in the environment (landscape archaeology) On remains of wild plants / animals. Flowers: evolutionarily advantageous because they coevolve with their pollinators. Wild: animal or plant going through complete life cycle without human intervention.
