The beginnings of the glaze technology in Garb al-Andalus (south-west of the Iberian Peninsula) during the 9th-10th centuries: archaeometric analysis and historic interpretations

Abstract

This paper is aimed to clarify the beginnings of the glaze technology in the far west Islamic world, the garb al-Andalus. The scarcity of glazed ceramics for the early Islamic period suggests that they were not local productions, but imports. Five glazed ceramics found in the present-day south of Portugal have been analysed in order to determine their provenances