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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 clay matrices 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 potentially be tied to specific production locations. Actual instances of clay matrices used to establish the declaration of an instance of U7 Fabric may be modified by post-depositional processes, which can introduce uncertainty into the type assignment of an instance of this class to a particular object.  The substance of an instance of U7 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An instance of Fabric comes into being upon its declaration and continues to exist thereafter even if disproven or superseded, so long as it remains an object of discourse in scientific literature.

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