Introduction to the Sphakia Survey
by Simon Price, Oxford University
Original text © 2001 Lucia Nixon, Jennifer Moody, Simon Price, and Oliver Rackham - The Sphakia Survey: Internet Edition
Bee Keeping
III. Beehive fabrics
You can also explore the different types of clay from which beehives in Region 8 were made (on our Fabric Families go to the Fabric Research section).
· Go back to the main menu for this database (by clicking on the back arrow).
· On the first line of Advanced Searches type in 8.07 (the site whose record you have already seen).
· And click the “Begin Search” button.
You will obtain 16 records for this site.
· Go back to the main menu for this database (by clicking on the back arrow).
· At the top of the page, pull down the menu on the “Choose field to sort by” and select “Fabric Family.”
· Click “Begin Search.”
· The same 16 records will now be sorted by Fabric Family.
· Click on “8.07” in the left-hand column to view an individual record (and its associated photographs and drawings, if any).
Possible question to think about:
- How do the fabrics for beehives compare with the fabrics for other pottery at a particular site (or for the Region as a whole)?
- What conclusions follow from this comparison (origins of the hives; functions of this range of fabrics)?
- What sort of site does 8.07 seem to be?
