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Neolithic period --- Pottery, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric pottery --- Industries, Primitive --- New Stone age --- Stone age --- Iraq --- Syria --- Antiquities. --- Industries, Prehistoric

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Archaeologists have recently made tremendous advances in understanding the early ceramic traditions of the prehistoric Near East. Over the past decade there has been a huge increase in research focusing on various aspects of ceramic production, its origins and evolution, distribution and consumption in the Late Neolithic (ca. 7000?5000 cal. BC). Fieldwork brings new and exciting finds every year while laboratory studies change our perspectives regarding ceramic technology. Near Eastern ceramic specialists actively engage with, and contribute to, current trends in theoretical archaeology. For the first time, the 19 papers presented here bring together specialists discussing Neolithic ceramics from the Near East in the broadest sense. There is a general focus on decorated pottery traditions. What raw materials and ceramic technologies did Late Neolithic peoples employ? How did they paint their designs? How may we analyze decorated ceramics to explore social networks and identities? What did these decorated pottery traditions mean socially? Essential reading to Near Eastern prehistorians, these collected papers provide new insights for anyone interested in the development of early pottery traditions and the social significance of ceramics in Neolithic societies

Neolithic period --- Pottery, Prehistoric --- Painted pottery --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Néolithique --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Iraq --- Irak --- Antiquities. --- History --- Antiquités --- Histoire --- Céramique préhistorique --- Faïence peinte --- Néolithique --- Céramique préhistorique --- Faïence peinte --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Antiquités

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Neolithic period --- Pottery, Prehistoric --- Painted pottery --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Hand-painted pottery --- Pottery --- Prehistoric pottery --- Industries, Primitive --- Iraq --- Antiquities. --- History --- Industries, Prehistoric

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Across Western Asia, the astonishing increase in the availability of durable ceramic containers in the seventh millennium BCE had significant societal repercussions - so much so that vital social, economic, and symbolic activities became dependent upon the availability of pottery containers. These early ceramic containers, however, established themselves alongside flourishing pre-existing container traditions, with vessels made in a wide range of materials including clay, bitumen, basketry, leather, wood, and stone. How did prehistoric people respond to the emergence of containers as a key factor in their lives? Building on Olivier Nieuwenhuyse's rich scholarly legacy, this volume brings together 18 papers by leading scholars in the field of container technology, discussing cases from eastern Asia to Africa, but with a focus on prehistoric Western Asia. Looking not just at pottery but also explicitly beyond, the contributions consider and address the cross-overs of different kinds of raw materials for containers and their crafting; the multiplicity of temporal scales in the production, use and discard of pottery; the social anchoring of vessels' use and deposition as evident in their specific contexts; and local as well as regional variations in early pottery.

Containers --- Containers --- Pottery, Ancient --- Pottery, Ancient --- Material culture --- Material culture --- History --- History --- History --- History --- To 1500 --- East Asia --- Middle East --- Moyen-Orient --- East Asia --- Middle East --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités.

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Sixteen contributions on cultural history, archaeological and textual remains of the Ancient Near East are devoted to the Assyriologist F.A.M. Wiggermann from Amsterdam. Dining and drinking in ritual, ceremonial and everyday contexts are considered. Black dogs and Seven demons are given attention, as well as Babylonian whirlwinds, Assyrian crown princes and the origin of maps.

Idols and images --- Art, Middle Eastern --- History --- Middle East --- Antiquities. --- Social life and customs. --- Civilization