Early Pottery Technologies among Foragers in Global Perspective : Cultural Transformations Through Material Practice

• Autore: D'Ercole Giulia
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (315 pages)
• Altri autori: GarceaElena A. A VaradzinováLenka VaradzinLadislav
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Research into Pottery among Foragers: An Introduction -- 1.1 State of the Art -- 1.2 Main Research Topics on Pottery among Foragers -- 1.3 Purpose of This Volume -- 1.3.1 Editorial Note -- References -- Chapter 2: Why Pottery? A Finnish View on the Adoption and Use of Early Pottery -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Organic Residue Analysis of Archaeological Pottery in Finland -- 2.3 The Hunter´s Game: Investigating Patterns of Animal Resource Use and Subsistence among Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic... -- 2.4 The Adoption of Pottery in Finland Was Not Steered by Subsistence -- 2.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: Pottery of Hunter-Gatherer Societies in Northeastern Central Europe from ca. 4800 to ca. 2000 BCE -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Two Earlier Histories (ca. 5350/4800-4000 BCE) -- 3.2.1 Early Farmers and Late Hunter-Gatherers in Northeastern Central Europe -- 3.2.2 Hunter-Gatherer Pottery in the Western Part of Northeastern Central Europe -- 3.2.3 Hunter-Gatherer Pottery in the Northeastern Fringes of Northeastern Central Europe -- 3.3 Two Later Histories (ca. 4000-2000 BCE) -- 3.3.1 Middle Neolithic Farmers and the Latest Hunter-Gatherers in Northeastern Central Europe -- 3.3.2 Pottery of the Latest Hunter-Gatherers in Northeastern Central Europe -- 3.4 Origins -- 3.5 Reasons and Mechanisms -- 3.6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4: Four Thousand Years of Pottery Technology by Foragers in Jebel Sabaloka, Middle Nile Valley (Sudan) -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Environmental Context -- 4.2.1 Present Environment -- 4.2.2 Early-Middle Holocene Environment -- 4.3 The Earliest Ceramic Complexes across Sudan -- 4.3.1 Early Khartoum -- 4.3.2 Khartoum Variant -- 4.3.3 Dotted Wavy Line/Laqiya -- 4.3.4 Atbai Ceramic Tradition. ; 4.4 The Early Khartoum Cultural Orbit in Jebel Sabaloka and the Site of Sphinx -- 4.5 Materials and Methods -- 4.6 Results -- 4.6.1 General Characterization of the Assemblage -- 4.6.2 Spatial Analysis -- 4.7 Discussion -- 4.8 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5: Boiling Energy: Socioecological and Spiritual Dimensions of Pottery Emergence in Later Stone Age Southern Africa -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Neolithic Origins in Southern Africa -- 5.3 Invention, Adoption and Diffusion: The Subcontinent´s Earliest Ceramics -- 5.4 `Strandlopers´, Khoekhoen and Clay: The Cape Ceramic Tradition -- 5.5 Why Did Southern African LSA Societies Adopt Pottery? -- 5.5.1 Climatic and Dietary Drivers -- 5.5.2 Social Explanations: Exchange and Prestige -- 5.5.3 Boiling Energy: Ontological Considerations -- 5.5.3.1 Raw Materials as `Rain´s Things´ -- 5.5.3.2 Fire, Transformation and Trance -- 5.5.3.3 Gender, Complementarity and Survival -- 5.6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6: Post-harvest Intensification and `Pottery Pre-Neolithics´: Endocuisine Evolution in Asia and Africa from Hunter-Gat... -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Intensification: Before or After Harvest -- 6.3 Defining an Endocuisine Neolithicity -- 6.4 A Framework of Phases in the Evolution of Ceramics -- 6.5 Early Pottery Evolution in China and the Impact of Agriculture -- 6.5.1 Earliest Ceramics in China: The Lingnan Region, or the Yangtze Valley? -- 6.5.2 Yangtze Valley Region -- 6.5.3 Lingnan Region -- 6.5.4 Subsistence in Lingnan and the Yangtze Valley -- 6.5.5 Northeast versus North China -- 6.5.6 Subsistence in North China -- 6.5.7 Northeast China: Subsistence, Cultivation and the Dispersal Phase -- 6.5.8 The Yellow River (North China) -- 6.6 Early Ceramic Traditions in Africa -- 6.6.1 Early Pottery along the Sudanese Nile. ; 6.6.2 The Long Lead of Pottery Before Millet in Woodlands of Ghana and Cameroon -- 6.6.3 Ounjougou, Early Pottery in Mali and the Advent of Pearl Millet -- 6.6.4 Pre-pastoral Pottery and Plant Use in the Tadrart Acacus, Central Sahara -- 6.6.5 Concluding Remarks on Early African Ceramics -- 6.7 Concluding Comparisons -- References -- Chapter 7: Mobile Pottery among Forager-Farmers: A Case of Pottery Transport in the Middle Jeulmun Pottery Period of Korea -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Archaeological Background -- 7.3 Geochemical Analysis of Middle Jeulmun Pottery Period Ceramics -- 7.3.1 Applications of pXRF on Archaeological Ceramics -- 7.3.2 Using pXRF to Infer Production Locations of Middle Jeulmun Pottery Period Ceramics -- 7.4 Sampled Sites -- 7.5 Materials and Methods -- 7.6 Results -- 7.6.1 Settlements -- 7.6.2 Settlements and Shell Middens -- 7.7 Discussion -- 7.8 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 8: A Pilot Study to Characterize Organic Residues of Earliest Pottery in the American Southeast -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Archaeological Background: Early and Classic Stallings Cultural Phases -- 8.2.1 The Enduring Tradition of Indirect-Heat Cooking -- 8.2.2 Late Archaic Foodways -- 8.3 Materials and Methods -- 8.3.1 Pottery Sampling -- 8.3.2 Methods and Analytical Techniques -- 8.3.3 GS/MS Analysis -- 8.3.4 Residue Interpretation -- 8.4 Results -- 8.4.1 Contamination -- 8.5 Discussion -- 8.6 Conclusions and Future Work Prospectus -- References -- Chapter 9: A Global Perspective on Early Pottery Technologies among Foragers -- 9.1 Pottery as a Transformative Technology -- 9.2 The Invention of Pottery and the Neolithic Paradigm -- 9.3 Pottery as a Storing and Cooking Technology and a Means of Culinary Traditions -- 9.4 Not Only a `Culinary Technology´ -- 9.5 Pottery among Foragers and Farmers: A Blended Story. ; 9.6 The Adoption of Pottery: Global Denominators and Local Narratives -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Early Pottery Technologies among Foragers in Global Perspective
• ISBN: 3-031-71777-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910906194803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: One World Archaeology Series