"The white ceramic project"

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The Levantine Groves Project, LCP, is a project designed to enable systematic information gathering on the pottery vessels (known by archaeologists and ceramics) located on archaeological sites in the Levant area. Interactive and scientificly, thus facilitate the archaeological research of scholars and archaeologists. The project was established in 2011 by Professor Andrea M. Berlin of Boston University.

The project
For the project two components: interactive site and periodic workshops. The project deals with all the karmic periods from the Neolithic period from 5500 BC to the end of the Ottoman period in 1920, including all areas of the Levant, areas located in Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, Palestine, Jordan, and Egypt. The aim of the project is to create a large digital database that will make it easier for researchers to collaborate and search for cold evidence.

The reservoir contains information about tools, forms, materials, and petrographic information that deals with identifying a manufacturing place based on the composition of the material from which the instrument is made. The project and the web site have been established to serve a new research tool, which beyond being a large-karmic database, will link researchers and encourage research.

The project holds one year a work workshop in which researchers meet, presenting their new discoveries, and discussing common topics. The workshops began in 2012. The first workshop took place in Athens, Greece. In addition, workshops were held in Israel, Jerusalem and Haifa, Belgium in Loon, France in Lyon, the United States in Khan Arbor in Michigan and Boston. The workshops are open to researchers and students, and anyone interested in studying pottery vessels from the Levant area.

The website is open to the general public for search and viewing. The site also features materials that have not yet been published and materials published many years ago. Researchers from around the world can upload new information to the site (after registering).

The main contributions of the project
Sharing information that is critical for archaeological research between researchers, who if not for the site and workshops, would probably not meet (for example, Israeli researchers and Syrian researchers).
Providing the ability to compare values on the site, identify errors, identify values that may be and should be unified. The site provides a very convenient platform for communication between different values, discussing the issues in the study, thus helping promote the study.
It is used as a data base accessible to everyone. Values can only be raised to researchers themselves, as well as open values for everyone. Researchers can filter the database by multiple parameters.

External links

The White ceramic project
Information about the project includes explanations on the American School of Study of the East
The Levantine Marriotts Project (LCP) Workshop, a project workshop at the Olavright Institute for Archaeological Research held in 2014.
The Levantine Marriotts Project, The CSA newsletter

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