Key PagesVorotan Home | Changes [Nov 20, 2012]obsidian If there
are problems opening photos, please refresh your screen. Pottery
is the most ubiquitous category of object that is collected on
the Vorotan Project, both through survey and excavation. During
the 2005 season, pottery material collected from survey and
excavation contexts was analyzed primarily by one of our project
co-directors, Mkrtich Zardaryan, in the field. This analysis
divided the pottery into rough chronological groups. During the
the 2006 season, the amount of pottery from excavation increased
exponentially, while survey produced much less material. M.
Zardaryan did analyze some of this pottery, but the majority
remains to be studied. Jen taking notes at one of the clay
sources. During the second half of the 2006 season, Dr. Jen
Gates began a secondary analysis of some of the 2005 excavated
pottery, during which she sorted the material according to
fabric and began to build a database according to fabric and
form. A local potter. Pottery