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This class comprises types of groupings of pottery as established by appropriate experts on the basis of visual macro- and/or microscopic inspection of the clay matrix and inclusions. Fabric group types are declared in order to reflect characteristics of the raw materials used as well as the manufacturing procedures adopted for the creation of groups of pottery materials. A pottery fabric type can therefore be tied to specific production locations. They may be modified by post-depositional processes, which introduces uncertainty in the type assignment rather than a change of type.  The substance of an instance of Fabric is a conceptual classification created for scientific analysis. 

An instance of Fabric comes into being upon its declaration and continues to exist thereafter even if disproven or superseded, so long as it remains an object of discourse in scientific literature.

 

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