Early Neolithic pottery of Ifri n'Etsedda, NE-Morocco – Raw materials and fabrication techniques

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 200-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabrina Stempfle ◽  
Jörg Linstädter ◽  
Klaus G. Nickel ◽  
Abdeslam Mikdad ◽  
Patrick Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Raw Materials ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Neolithic Pottery

scholarly journals Some review on the results of technical and technological analysis of ceramics (on the example of the Rakushechny Yar settlement)

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 137-153
Author(s):  
Irina Nikolaevna Vasilieva
Keyword(s):  
Raw Materials ◽  
Steppe Zone ◽  
General Description ◽  
Technology Usage ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Pottery Technology ◽  
Long Term Study ◽  
Modeling Experiment ◽  
Don River ◽  
Neolithic Pottery

The article gives the results on the problem of pottery technology usage in the population which left a multilayered stratified settlement of the neo-Eneolithic Age of Rakushechny Yar. It is located on the island of Porechny in the riverbed of the Don river, which is near Razdorskaya village of Rostov Region in Russian Federation. This research is a long-term study concerning the problem of ancient pottery technology usage in Eastern European territory of Russia. The author found it is important to use both the historical and cultural approach and the method of A.A. Bobrinskiy. This method includes binocular microscopy, tracology and physical modeling experiment. The authors studied 294 samples of ceramics (separate vessels approximately) in Rakushechny Yar. Thus, the article describes the techniques and methods for selecting plastic raw materials, composing molding masses, making vessels, giving a general description of the Lower Don region Early Neolithic pottery. Moreover the author uses the comparative analysis to describe the new knowledge and give more information on the problem concerning the pottery technology usage in these regions. The author gives similar and different specific features of the neolithization process in the Don and the Volga regions as well as the questions concerning the origin and the development of early Neolithic pottery traditions in south steppe zone of the Eastern Europe.

scholarly journals Understanding Diversity in Early Neolithic Pottery Production

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 110-125
Author(s):  
Tanya Dzhanfezova ◽  
Chris Doherty ◽  
Małgorzata Grębska-Kulow
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
New Technology ◽  
European Regions ◽  
Pottery Production ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Scanning Electron ◽  
Neolithic Pottery

By recovering and interpreting the hidden technological variability in the first pottery at Ilindentsi-Massovets, this paper reveals the innovative adaptations to local conditions that the adoption of pottery production, as a new technology, must have involved. Seventy-one samples were analysed using low-resolution binocular microscopy and high-resolution petrographic and scanning electron microscopy. The variety established within each of the major components in pottery production at the site is interpreted in the context of the local raw materials (availability) and technological approaches (decision making), thus reaching beyond the traditional interpretative models that suggest large-scale uniformity in Early Neolithic pottery production across extensive European regions.

Excavations at South Cadbury Castle, 1969: A Summary Report

1970 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Alcock
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Summary Report ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Neolithic Pottery

SummaryContinued excavations at South Cadbury in July-August 1969 failed to confirm the Early Neolithic enclosed settlement hinted at in 1968, but added Late Neolithic pottery to the known cultural sequence. For the Iron Age, particular interest attaches to evidence for stake-built round houses; to a rich collection of iron and bronze arms and armour perhaps from a workshop; and to a rectangular shrine with animal sacrifices. The moment of the Roman Conquest is represented by a field oven with military bronzes. In the fifth-sixth centuries A.D. the plan of a timber hall was traced, and it was shown that timber and reused Roman masonry had played a large part in the rampart and gateway.

scholarly journals A Very Early “Fashion”: Neolithic Stone Bracelets from a Mediterranean Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 815-831
Author(s):  
Francisco Martínez-Sevilla ◽  
Emma L. Baysal ◽  
Roberto Micheli ◽  
Fotis Ifantidis ◽  
Carlo Lugliè
Keyword(s):  
Raw Materials ◽  
Mediterranean Area ◽  
Manufacturing Processes ◽  
Craft Specialization ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
European Continent ◽  
Use Wear ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract Ring-shaped objects, used mainly as bracelets, appear in the archaeological record associated with the first farming societies around the Mediterranean area. These bracelets, among other personal ornaments, are related to the spread of the farming economy in the Mediterranean (10th–6th millennium BC). In particular, stone bracelets, given their intricate technology, are linked with the early stages of craft specialization and the beginnings of complex social organization. Likewise, their frequency in Early Neolithic assemblages and the lithologies in which they were made have become an important element in the study of the circulation networks of goods, as well as the symbolic behaviors and aesthetic preferences of the first farming groups. This research provides the first overview of the stone bracelets of Neolithic groups in the Mediterranean. We compare the similarities and differences among these ornaments in different geographical zones across the region including Turkey, Greece, Italy, and Spain. Using all the information available about these ornaments – chronology, typology, raw materials and manufacturing processes, use-wear, repair, and alteration practices – we shed light on a complex archaeological trans-cultural manifestation related to the spread of the Neolithic lifestyle across the European continent.

Counting pots in Early Neolithic Greece

2004 ◽  
Vol 99 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paraskevi Yiouni
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Active Role ◽  
High Status ◽  
Regular Component ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Contextual Data ◽  
And Function

The present paper examines the quantity and function of the pottery found at the Greek Early Neolithic sites. Review of the quantitative, technological, typological, functional and contextual data suggest that Early Neolithic pottery was most probably a regular component of material culture. Thus, in contrast with the highly favoured hypothesis that Early Neolithic pots were used mainly for cult-related or socially related prospects, it is argued that pottery had, since this early period, a variety of functions. It is very probable that some vessels were used in ceremonies or were high-status objects. The majority of vessels, however, had an active role in daily life concerning the storage and transportation of supplies, the preparation of food (most probably excluding cooking) and the treatment of other raw materials.

scholarly journals Early Neolithic pottery of Western Belarus: current state of research and its perspectives

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 110-116
Author(s):  
Aleh Yurjevich Tkachou
Keyword(s):  
Local Development ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
The North ◽  
Current State ◽  
Local Variant ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Neolithic Pottery

The paper discusses the Early Neolithic pottery from the Western Belarus, pottery of Dubičiai type. The set of its most distinctive features includes organic temper in clay mass, a belt of deep round pits under a rim edge, strokes by round stick (hoofs), slantwise thin grooved lines or slantwise net ornament of such lines. Hypotheses on the origin of Dubičiai type pottery are under discussion as well. According to many scholars, the area of occurrence of Dubičiai type pottery includes Belarusian part of the River Neman region (except the River Viliya basin), the left-bank of the upper Prypiat River basin, the southern Lithuania, the part of the north-eastern Poland, and the northern part of Volhynia. At the same time D.Ya. Telegin, E.N. Titova, G.V. Okhrimenko distinguish the Volhynian culture in the region of the same name. It has many traits analogous to the Prypiat-Neman culture. The scale of differences between the Early Neolithic pottery from Western Polesia and Volhynia and Dubičiai type pottery from the River Neman region allows considering the Volhynian culture as not a separate culture but as a local variant of the Neman culture. Sokołwek type pottery has been discovered at the sites in Podlasie and in Belarusian part of the River Bug region. It is analogous to Dubičiai type pottery by morphology and ornamentation but has less of organic temper in clay mass. Most probably, it is a result of local development of the Early Neolithic traditions in the western part of Prypiat-Neman culture area.

scholarly journals A prehistoric cremation burial at Duns Law Farm, near Duns, Scottish Borders

2018 ◽  
Vol 147 ◽  
pp. 29-47
Author(s):  
Sue Anderson ◽  
Melanie Johnson ◽  
Ann Clarke ◽  
Mike Cressey ◽  
Mhairi Hastie
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Human Bone ◽  
Bone Sample ◽  
Pottery Production ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
Burial Practices ◽  
Water Main ◽  
Neolithic Pottery

A large prehistoric pit was uncovered during a watching brief on a water main installation. The pit was partially stone-lined and two small scoops were identified at the base. These contained one complete and one partial Beaker vessel. The fills of the pit produced a small quantity of cremated human bone which represented a minimum of four individuals (three adults and a juvenile). Also mixed into the fills were sherds of other Beaker vessels, a few lithics, a stone axehead, and fragments of Neolithic pottery. Radiocarbon determinations produced early Neolithic dates for four samples of human bone and a grain of wheat, and one human bone sample produced a Bronze Age date later than the generally accepted currency of Beaker pottery production in Scotland. Interpretation of this strange collection of material is discussed with reference to Neolithic and Bronze Age burial practices; the evidence for the use of this pit in the Neolithic for cremation burial is a rare find and provides a valuable contribution to our understanding of this period and type of monument.

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