Kilns in East and North Asia: The adoption of ceramic industries (International)

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on the BAR Digital platform.0The start of ceramic industry is an important stage in mass production and is closely related to social complexity and social exchanges including the immigration of specialists. The introduction of high-temperature operations and varying firing regimes is a technological breakthrough in ceramic production. This book discusses the introduction and the background of kilns and advanced technology in the wider area of East Asia, covering the early appearances of the typical East Asian kiln technology in China, and its distribution to the Russian Far East, the Korean peninsula, and the central Japanese archipelago. Using both scientific and archaeological analysis, this book tries to help better understand the introduction factors of kilns, management of kilns by each regime, and the development of technology. An extensive glossary at the end of the book orientates readers not familiar with research in East Asia or languages referenced in this book Front Cover Title Copyright Archaeology of East Asia Other Titles in the Archaeology of East Asia Subseries Of Related Interest Contents List of Figures List of Tables Map of Study Area Part I: Overview: Kilns and kiln research in East Asia 1. Introduction 2. Kilns in East Asia and Their Characteristics 3. The Basic Concept and Appearance of Tunnel Kilns: Ethnoarchaeology and Sue-Ware Kilns from the Po 4. An Essay on Interdisciplinary Kiln Research and Agile Research Design 5. Provenance Studies and Beyond Part II: Advances of Kiln Manufacture in China 6. Porcelain Manufacturing of the Pre-Qin Period in Zhejiang 7. Value Construction of Proto-Porcelain Skeuomorphs in the Yue State in Southeast China 8. Tile Kilns and Roof-Tile Production in Ancient China 9. Pottery and Long-Distance Trade in East Asia: Coastal Areas Around the East China Sea and Yellow Part III: Spread to the North and the Northeast 10. Introduction and Deployment of the Ceramic Industry in the Xiongnu Empire 11. Ceramics-Firing Kilns of the Southern Russian Far East: Technological and Temporal Dynamics 12. Pottery Kilns of the Khitans in Mongolia 13. The Production System of Kiln-Fired Pottery in the Korean Peninsula 14. Social Background to the Kilns and Pottery Production Systems of the Ancient Korean Peninsula Part IV: Developments on the islands of the eastern periphery 15. The Beginning of Stoneware in the Japanese Archipelago 16. Structure of Sue-Ware Tunnel Kilns on the Japanese Archipelago 17. Nakadake Sanroku: The Southernmost Sue-Ware Kiln Site Center in Ancient Japan 18. Production at the Kamuiyaki Kiln Site Cluster and the Connection of the Ryūkyū Archipelago to Su Glossary Back Cover