The Australian excavations at Pella in Jordan under the guidance of Professor Basil Hennessy (Sydney University, Australia) have over the past 13 years demonstrated the current range of methodologies used in pottery studies in the Levant. One feature of the Australian field team has been the continuing inclusion of this writer from the Archaeology Research Unit, Victoria College, Melbourne (ARU) as a ceramic technologist and potter. The ARU at Victoria College, which operates together with a practical pottery workshop and an Advanced Ceramic Materials Development Unit, uses a multidisciplinary team approach to look at excavated ancient pottery not primarily as archaeological artifacts but as pottery.