- Never before or since has anyone come to create metal band and strap on clay vessels. Crazy! says

- The pottery is archeology best tool in the construction of human cultural history. There are societies where the division of human groups performed on the type of pottery they make, says Siv Kristoffersen, archaeologist at the Archaeological Museum, the University of Stavanger.
The new book Pail shaped vessel. Development and variety that she has written with archaeologist Bente Magnus, will help provide a clearer picture of how people lived and worked in the migration period in Norway. A bucket-shaped vessel is a type of pitcher that stands out in a European context, both in form and using a particular clay mix. The camp is in fact made with finely grated asbestos or soapstone as the main ingredient. - Ceramic Output disappears abruptly at the end of the 500's. It has been speculated that this may have had something to do with asbestos, but even if it was harmful as well, so wiped it enough not all potters in Norway. Cessation of pottery linkrich production are sufficient together with other natural and social phenomenon, says Kristoffersen.
Pottery in the Migration Period The prehistoric ceramic production in Norway is the European perspective linkrich rather simple and rough, take note if you ignore the migration period, from around AD 300 to mid 500's. During these years are the potter part of the society appearance in Norway. - The production is local, but it shows that we are part of a Germanic community. We can see in some of the decorative linkrich forms, says Kristoffersen. The shape of the vessels, with straight walls, flat bottom and no handle on the side, making sure they are like buckets or flower pots. The men are in most cases decorated and fired in an oven. The camp was rolled out into a thin wafer, which was then placed around a shape and joined together at the sides, explains Kristoffersen. The base was put on the end, and then the guys decked out, upside down, with combs, pins and pistons, or with fingers and nails. Sometimes they also had a metal band around the edge with a carrying device which enabled them to be carried around like a basket.
- Never before or since has anyone come to create metal band and strap on clay vessels. Crazy! says Kristoffersen. Pottery wheel and the turntable linkrich was at this time invented by the Romans, but did not get a foothold among the Germanic and Scandinavian tribes. It took potter mostly by hand. - What caused this, it is not easy to say. It might have with handicraft making, that leave much of their identity in the creation of men, says Kristoffersen.
Archaeology in early computer age Kristoffersen was interested in men when she worked on his doctoral linkrich thesis, Sword and buckle, which was released in 2000, and referred to animal ornamentation in southern and western Norway in the Migration Period. - Migration period is a complex and lively period because there is so much spatial variation in it. The graves are dyreornamentikkmateriale often found with container-shaped vessel. It lacked, however updated lists of what actually existed of such vessels. That is, there was partial overviews and analyzes made by respectively Håkon Shetelig linkrich and John Boe, but they were obsolete, says Kristoffersen. Archaeologist Bente Magnus began in the 1970s a major effort to analyze the bucket-shaped clay pots. At the time she worked at the Archaeological Department at Stavanger Museum, and she started a collaboration with the Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, now Uni Digital, Bergen. Work on the bucket-shaped vessels were made possible by a three-year Humanities Scholarship. - Magnus made impressive analytical forms of all findings of bucket-shaped vessel in Norway. The men were analyzed, and numerous data checked manually. IT department Pønsj so the data. Imagine: This was a very modern research methods in the 1970s, says Kristoffersen. After a year, however, clear that there was a large disparity linkrich between the objective and subjective data recorded. Magnus linkrich lost his nerve and put down the work. Computer technology was simply not well enough developed. - When I contacted Magnus, they had unfinished analyzes lain untouched for decades. This was the beginning of a very rewarding relationship. Our book took twelve years to complete, says Kristoffersen. Magnus is now retired archaeologist, living in Stockholm. linkrich The book Pail shaped vessel. Development and variation represents much needed basic research on the prehistoric development of the bucket-shaped vessels in Norway. - By itself it is not book so exciting. But it is a useful reference work and foundation for those who want to conduct further research vessels. Our goal has been to create a typological classification of the bucket-shaped vessels and show a trend over time, says Kristoffersen. The book, which is co-funded by the Research Council, contains besides lists of decorative patterns and shapes a great plansjedel illustrating the different types of bucket-shaped vessel. Rogaland is the area where it is found far the most