Record Nr.

UNINA9910792882603321

Titolo

Painting pots, painting people : late Neolithic ceramics in ancient Mesopotamia / / edited by Walter Cruells, Inna Mateiciucová and Olivier Nieuwenhuyse

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Oxford ; ; Philadelphia : , : Oxbow Books, , 2017

ISBN

1-78570-440-0

1-78570-442-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (386 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

935/.01

Soggetti

Neolithic period - Iraq

Pottery, Prehistoric - Iraq

Painted pottery - Iraq

Excavations (Archaeology) - Iraq

Iraq Antiquities

Iraq History To 634

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Late Neolithic pottery studies in the ancient Near East / Olivier Nieuwenhuyse, Walter Cruells and Inna Mateiciucová -- Transitions and their chronologies in the pottery Neolithic of the Near East / Walter Cruells -- Dark and light colour in early Near Eastern pottery : from technique to decoration / Marie Le Mière, Mihriban Özbasaran and Maurice Picon -- Investigating painted, incised and impressed ware from the late Halaf period / Anna Gómez Bach -- The painted Halaf pottery from Tell Tawila and the Tell Chuera region / Jörg Becker -- The appearance and development of painted ceramics at seventh millennium Tell Halula (Syria) / Josep-Miquel Faura and Miquel Molist -- Analysis of paint on prehistoric pottery from late Neolithic Tell Arbid Abyad (north-eastern Syria) / Dalibor V©<U+0085>ianský and Inna Mateiciucová -- Late Neolithic pottery at Çatalhöyük East / Lech Czerniak and Joanna Pyzel -- Late Neolithic pottery traditions on the upper Tigris Valley / Halil Tekin -- Pots to be seen / Olivier Nieuwenhuyse -- De l'art ou du cochon? / Béatrice Robert with Loïc

Daverat -- Painted pottery and visual representations at Tell Kurdu / Rana Özbal -- Animal motifs on Halaf painted pottery / Mücella Erdalkiran -- What happened in prehistory : can sherds speak? / Petr Charvát -- More than just a pretty face : the meaningful use of painted pottery in the Halaf period / Marie Hopwood -- Decoration of Neolithic pottery in the northern Levant : a view from the Rouj Basin / Takahiro Odaka -- Exploring the data : the pottery of Umm Qseir / Frank Hole -- Was white ware always white? : looking into the world of painted plaster / Bonnie Nilhamn -- Weaving and potting during the late Neolithic period : are there textile patterns on the early painted pottery of Mesopotamia? / Catherine Breniquet.