Ceramics Before Farming: The Dispersal of Pottery Among Prehistoric Eurasian Hunter-Gatherers (UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1598742450 ISBN 13: 9781598742459

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

A long-overdue advancement in ceramic studies, this volume sheds new light on the adoption and dispersal of pottery by non-agricultural societies of prehistoric Eurasia. Major contributions from Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia make this a truly international work that brings together different theories and material for the first time. Researchers and scholars studying the origins and dispersal of pottery, the prehistoric peoples or Eurasia, and flow of ancient technologies will all benefit from this book.

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Review:

"Readers will welcome this major advance in solving the enduring question of why pottery emerged in various parts of the world only towards the end of the prehistoric period It has been a great pleasure to peruse the contributions of this volume and become acquainted with the most recent developments in the quest to understand the origins of pottery--a phenomenon, as Jordan and Zvelebil note, too long equated with the Neolithic revolution."

--From the Foreword by Brian Hayden, Simon Fraser University

About the Author:

Peter Jordan is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen.

Merek Zvelebil is a Professor of Archaeology at the University of Sheffield.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1598742450
• ISBN 13: 9781598742459
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 589
• Editor: Jordan Peter, Zvelebil Marek