carination

Lawton defines carination as "an angled inflection in the vessel wall forming a ridge on the outer surface," which may occur at the widest diameter of the pot/bowl or at the base of the neck (25).

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

The third site, Massingir 4/75, only 35 km upstream from the others, contained what author Ricardo Duarte described as "an essentially different pottery," 23 including globular vessels with straight-walled necks, no carination, and a fairly distinct set of decorative patterns.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

Although he makes the point that the periphery is "hardly to be called keeled", to me "carinated", "angular" and "keeled" all mean more or less the same thing, especially when the degree of carination is variable.

Archive 2007-02-01 AYDIN 2007

Although he makes the point that the periphery is "hardly to be called keeled", to me "carinated", "angular" and "keeled" all mean more or less the same thing, especially when the degree of carination is variable.

Anguispira alternata angulata AYDIN 2007

These include soot-covered cooking pots of simple form, but also fragments of highly polished vessels with a sharp carination at mid body.

Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2008 - Field Note 2 2002

The mottled brown polished pottery with the carination, or sharp angled turn of the body, indicates an early Naqada I or possibly Badarian (4000 B.C.) occupation of the area.

Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2008 - Field Note 2 2002