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This work presents the most recent views on a subject of primordial importance for all students of history: the understanding of humankind's process of becoming, viewed through the study of the beginnings of pottery in the late forager, and early farmer societies of Europe.
It is a collection of essays, by some of the prominent European scholars and young dynamic archaeologists whose works focus on the early European and Middle Eastern pottery, intended to present a new perspective on the rise of a new technology in prehistory.
With the breadth, variety and novelty of the approaches presented, Early farmers, late foragers and ceramic traditions. On the beginning of pottery in Europe is a fascinating read for scholars, as well as for the public at large.
List of Illustrations ix
List of Tables xvii
Contributors xviii
Preface xx
Acknowledgements xxi
Introduction Early Pottery: A Concise Overview Dragos Gheorghiu 1
Chapter 1 Earliest Use of Pottery in Anatolia Mehmet Öet;zdoğan 22
Chapter 2 Variations on the Neolithic Transition in Eastern and Western Hungary Eszter Bánffy 44
Chapter 3 Cultural Diversities: The Early Neolithic in the Adriatic Region and Central Balkans. A Pottery Perspective Michela Spataro 63
Chapter 4 Early Neolithic Ceramics in Southern Italy: Relationships between Pottery Technology and Production Organization Italo M. Muntoni 87
Chapter 5 From Galicia to the Iberian Peninsula: Neolithic Ceramics and Traditions M. Pilar Prieto-Martínez 116
Chapter 6 The Pottery of Hunter-Gatherers in Transition to Agriculture Illustrated by the Swifterbant Culture, the Netherlands Jutta Paulina de Roever 150
Chapter 7 First Appearance of Pottery in Western Europe: The Questions of La Hoguette and Limburg Ceramics Anne Hauzeur 167
Chapter 8 What Is the Evidence and Consequences of Exchanging Bone and Antler and Pottery Designs Between Ertebφlle and TRB Danubian Communities? George Nash 189
Chapter 9 Early Pottery among Hunter-horticulturalists and Hunter-gatherers in Central Fenno-Scandinavia Fredrik Hallgren 215
Chapter 10 Pots, Pits and People: Hunter-Gatherer Pottery Traditions in Neolithic Sweden Åsa M. Larsson 239
Index 271
Overview
This work presents the most recent views on a subject of primordial importance for all students of history: the understanding of humankind's process of becoming, viewed through the study of the beginnings of pottery in the late forager, and early farmer societies of Europe.
It is a collection of essays, by some of the prominent European scholars and young dynamic archaeologists whose works focus on the early European and Middle Eastern pottery,...