Perémi Ágota (szerk.): Hadak útján. Népvándorlás Kor Fiatal Kutatóinak XXIII. konferenciakötete (Veszprém, 2016)
Veninger Péter: Egy fazekasműhely feltárásán milyen alapanyagok, eszközök és szerszámok kerülhetnek elő?
Péter Véninger WHAT RAW MATERIALS, IMPLEMETS, TOOLS MAY TURN UP WHILE EXCAVATING A POTTER'S WORKSHOP? Potters usually used a relatively set technological order for making ceramics. We can assign a specific tool to each step. Every step leaves its mark on the object during pottery making. It's expedient to know the tools and the materials for describing the archaeological finds when excavating ancients workshops. On the base of my humble knowledge of the current, ethnological, and historical technology of pottery, I tried to summarize what tools were usually required for pottery making. I expanded partly this list with some that only were required under certain circumstances, but they might occur among the finds. Since extremely few finds of pottery making tools are known, I try to deliver ideas about which versions of the tools we know today might had been used, in theory. So if a new find without a modern equivalent turns up, it may be easier to decide whether it was used for pottery making or not. I used relatively many parallelisms from the modern age. Describing these is important not only for a comparision but because we don't always know (yet) since when the various tools are used by the potters (tool marks don't help in all cases). We know about tools made from organic materials - and which don't last - mostly by their marks on the pots. Although this is not enough to reconstruct the tool itself accurately. There were probably many tools (potter wheels, wooden knives, turning chisels) which we will never know the exact look of, the size and materials (the kind of wood) of theirs. Despite this, it's still possible (more or less) to re-enact the exact (technological) order of the making. What more, even that fact may be useful which nations did use wooden knives when throwing and which didn't, or which did use turning chisels and which didn't, and so on. Perhaps the comparison and analysis of tools (or to be more exact: of the tool marks) may let us know more where did the respective nations get their technological knowledge from and how did this knowledge change over time. 222
