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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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Over the past fifty years or so early pottery complexes in the wider region of West Asia have hardly ever been investigated in their own right. Early ceramics have often been unexpected by-products of projects focusing upon much earlier aceramic or later prehistoric periods. In recent years, however, there has been a tremendous increase in research in various parts of West Asia focusing explicitly on this theme. It has generally become accepted that the adoption of pottery in West Asia happened relatively late in the history of ceramics. Several regions are now believed to have developed pottery significantly earlier. Thus, pottery occurs in Eastern Russia, in China and Japan by 16,500 cal. BC and in north Africa it is known in the 10th millennium cal. BC.However, while the East Asian examples in particular do mark chronologically earlier instances, the picture in West Asia is actually rather more complex, in part because of the tyranny of the Aceramic/Ceramic Neolithic chronological divide. For the first time, The Emergence of Pottery in West Asia examines in detail the when, where, how and why of the arrival of the first pottery in the region.0A key insight that emerges is that we must not confuse the reasons for pottery adoption with the long-term consequences. Neolithic peoples in West Asia did not adopt pottery because of the many uses and functions it would gain many centuries later and the development of ceramic technology needs to be examined in the context of its original cultural and social milieu
Pottery --- Neolithic period --- Ceramic art --- Ceramics (Art) --- Chinaware --- Crockery --- Earthenware --- Pottery, Primitive --- Ceramics --- Decorative arts --- House furnishings --- Firing (Ceramics) --- Saggers --- Middle East --- Antiquities.
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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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Pottery --- Ceramic art --- Ceramics (Art) --- Chinaware --- Crockery --- Earthenware --- Pottery, Primitive --- Ceramics --- Decorative arts --- House furnishings --- Firing (Ceramics) --- Saggers
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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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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 inc
Néolithique --- Culture matérielle --- Récipients --- 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
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The subject of climate change could hardly be more timely. In Climate and Cultural Change in Prehistoric Europe and the Near East, an interdisciplinary group of contributors examine climate change through the lens of new archaeological and paleo-environmental data over the course of more than 10,000 years from the Near East to Europe. Key climatic and other events are contextualized with cultural changes and transitions for which the authors discuss when, how, and if, changes in climate and environment caused people to adapt, move or perish. More than this publication of crucial archaeological and paleo-environmental data, however, the volume seeks to understand the social, political and economic significance of climate change as it was manifested in various ways around the Old World. Contrary to perceptions of threatening global warming in our popular media, and in contrast to grim images of collapse presented in some archaeological discussions of past climate change, this book rejects outright societal collapse as a likely outcome. Yet this does not keep the authors from considering climate change as a potential factor in explaining culture change by adopting a critical stance with regard to the long-standing practice of equating synchronicity with causality, and explicitly considering alternative explanations.
Paleoclimatology --- Paleoecology --- Prehistoric peoples. --- Human beings --- Climatology --- Acclimatization --- Medical climatology --- Cavemen (Prehistoric peoples) --- Early man --- Man, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric archaeology --- Prehistoric human beings --- Prehistoric humans --- Prehistory --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Palaeoecology --- Ecology --- Paleobiology --- Geologic climate --- Palaeoclimatology --- Paleoclimate --- Climatic changes --- Effect of climate on. --- Climatic factors --- Primitive societies
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