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Ceramics before farming : the dispersal of pottery among prehistoric Eurasian hunter-gatherers / Peter Jordan, Marek Zvelebil, editors

Published
Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, [2009]
Copyright Date
©2009
Physical Description
1 online resource (589 pages) : illustrations, maps
Additional Creators
Jordan, Peter, 1969- and Zvelebil, Marek
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Ex oriente lux: the prehistory of hunter-gatherer ceramic dispersals / Peter Jordan and Marek Zvelebil -- Long-term innovation: the appearance and spread of pottery in the Japanese archipelago / Simon Kaner -- Pottery making in prehistoric cultures of the Russian Far East / Irina S. Zhushchikhovskaya -- Hunter-gatherer ceramics of neolithic Korea / Daeyoun Cho and Ilhong Ko -- Review of early hunter-gatherer pottery in eastern Siberia / Hugh G. McKenzie -- Early hunter-gatherer ceramics in the Urals and western Siberia / Natal'ia M. Chairkina and Lubov' L. Kosinskaia -- Early pottery makers in eastern Europe: centres of origins, subsistence and dispersal / Pavel M. Dolukhanov, Andrei M. Mazurkevich and Anvar M. Shukurov -- Early hunter-gatherer ceramics in Karelia / Konstantin German -- Ceramic anthropomorphic sculptures of the east European forest zone / Ekaterina Kashina -- Pottery of the stone age hunter-gatherers in Finland / Petro Pesonen and Sirpa Leskinen -- Ceramics as a novelty in northern and southern Sweden / Ole Stilborg and Lena Holm -- 'All change'? Exploring the role of technological choice in the early northern Comb Ware of Finnmark, Arctic Norway / Marianne Skandfer -- 'Tiny islands in a far sea'- on the seal hunters of Åland, and the northwestern limit in the spread of early pottery / Fredrik Hallgren -- The pitted ware culture in eastern middle Sweden: material culture and human agency / Mats Larsson -- Pitted ware culture ceramics: aspects of pottery production and use at Ottenby Royal Manor, Öland, Sweden / Ludvig Papmehl-Dufay -- Hunter-gatherers and early ceramics in Poland / Marek Nowak -- Early pottery in hunter-gatherer societies of western Europe / Philippe Crombé -- Ceramic trajectories: from figurines to vessels / Transregional culture contacts and the neolithization process in northern central Europe / Detlef Gronenborn -- Discussion: living at the edge / William K. Barnett -- Hunter-gatherer pottery: an emerging 14C chronology / Peter Hommel.
Summary
A long-overdue advancement in ceramic studies, this volume sheds new light on the adoption and dispersal of pottery by non-agricultural societies of prehistoric Eurasia. Major contributions from Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia make this a truly international work that brings together different theories and material for the first time. Researchers and scholars studying the origins and dispersal of pottery, the prehistoric peoples or Eurasia, and flow of ancient technologies will all benefit from this book.
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ISBN
9781598747881 (electronic bk.)
1598747886 (electronic bk.)
9781598742459 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1598742450 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1315432366
9781315432366
1315432374
9781315432373
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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