The elements such as the clay, additive, form, rim, handle, surface applications, pattern, polish that which compose a pottery individually or in the aggregate have the potential to describe the place where is produced, its history, production tecniques, technological developments, local customs, circulation networks, types of production, consumption and storage, interaction between settlements and settlement itself and finally a chronology (Orton & Hughes, 2013, p. 4). For this reason pottery can be considered as an indicator of the social, economic and cultural constitution of a community. Nevertheless to be able to reach the potential which is mentioned on the condition that the pieces or a complete of the pottery which formed by the combination of a great numbers of elements has been analyzed at a high standards (Hunt, 2017; Orton & Hughes, 2013; PCRG et al., 2016). The predominant objective of this high standard of analysis is a research on the phases from production, usage/reusage, or if there is any spread of the pottery and finally to the transformation to waste production (Tite, 1999, 2008). Especially after 1960, many new analytical methods have emerged in pottery studies through the complex and advanced archaeometric methods that progressed in parallel with the new perspectives and technological development (Orton & Hughes, 2013, p. 12; Schiffer, 1989; Shepard, 1956; Sinopoli, 1991). These new methods give an answer for the basic questions such as “Provenance”, “Production Technologies”, “Function”, “Dating”. The Provenance, which will be discussed in this study, is one of these basic questions. With the results to be obtained from the provenance-oriented pottery researches, various questions such as the technological level of the communities that produced them, their cultural connections and the economic interactions between the communities can be found.

Keywords: Provenance, Pottery, Chemistry, Mineralogy, Archeometry