Pottery Classification and Activities in a City Centre

First Results from Pottery Analysis of Mughal to Modern Period Excavations at Gor Khuttree, Peshawar, Pakistan

Abstract

As every archaeologist knows, discarded pottery provides a broad range of information about the past. We use it to establish chronologies, identify groups of people, learn about ancient trading connections, and discover what activities took place in particular locations (Sinopoli 1991; Miller 2006). This is true of all time periods, the historic as well as the prehistoric, and in 2005, the first author, Miller, began to examine the Late Historic pottery from the site of Gor Khuttree to address such questions. . . .