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Zhang Chi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The discovery of early Pottery in China
Documenta Praehistorica, 2002Co-Authors: Zhang ChiAbstract:During the transitional period from the Upper Pleistocene to the onset of the Holocene, there were two different cultural traditions in southern and northern China. The Pottery appeared in both cultures. The earliest Pottery in southern China might be dated back to 16 000 b.p. The early Pottery found in the North is later than the earliest Pottery in southern China, the Russian Far East, and Japan, but its character bears some similarity with the early Pottery from other areas, especi- ally from the Russian Far East and Japan.
Shinji Kato - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Early Pottery from the Lingjing site and the emergence of Pottery in northern China
Quaternary International, 2017Co-Authors: Dai Kunikita, Shinji KatoAbstract:Abstract In the Chinese context, Pottery that predates ca. 9000 14 C BP is referred to as “early Pottery”. Research on the early Pottery of China had been conducted mostly in central and southern China; in contrast, research in northern China has been restricted, and only 5 sites had been discovered to date. Therefore, additional data is needed to foster the progress of research on early Pottery in northern China. Given this situation, there is great value in the investigation of the many potsherds associated with microblade industry that have been found in secondary sediments of Layer 5 of the Lingjing site in Henan Province, on the Huang-Huai Plain at the southern end of the North China Plain. Based on AMS 14 C dates (ca. 9.8 cal ka), typological features of the Pottery, and features of the other artifacts found at Lingjing, these potsherds are argued by this paper to be examples of early Pottery, meaning that Lingjing constitutes a new site yielding early Pottery in northern China. Other than these archaeological results, our research on Lingjing Pottery has also yielded primary data on stable carbon/nitrogen isotope analysis and starch residue analysis. On the basis of archaeological research on early Pottery, including examples from Lingjing, it appears that Pottery in northern China generally emerged at the beginning of the Holocene (11.7 cal ka). Therefore, this emergence of Pottery was likely related to the rapid warming just after the end of the last glacial period, after the Younger Dryas. The archaeological evidence also indicates increasing utilization of plant resources and diversification of food resources beginning prior to that time, suggesting that early Pottery may have played a major role in this change in subsistence strategy in northern China. Archaeological comparisons between the early Pottery of northern and central/southern China show substantial differences. Based on its association with microblade technology and on characteristic features such as vessels with a flat base, this early Pottery from northern China may be related to that from regions further north, such as the Russian Far East.
Friederike Jesse - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Early Pottery in Northern Africa – An Overview
Journal of African Archaeology, 2010Co-Authors: Friederike JesseAbstract:The emergence of Pottery is a compelling issue for archaeologists. In Africa, Pottery appeared in what is now the southern part of the Sahara and the Sahel at different localities and in different contexts in the 10 th millennium bp. This paper aims to give an overview of the available data concerning early Pottery in Northern Africa. The radiocarbon evidence is considered as well as technological features of the Pottery, the decoration and the site context. The areas of the earliest appearance of Pottery in Northern Africa were uninhabited during the hyperarid phase at the end of the Pleistocene. Intriguing questions are therefore the origin of the Early Holocene occupants and of their knowledge of potting and of course the role of early Pottery in the prehistoric groups.
Laurinda Dugay - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Specialized Pottery Production on Bronze Age Cyprus and Pottery Use-wear Analysis
Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 1997Co-Authors: Laurinda DugayAbstract:Cypriot archaeological Pottery analysis has been characterized largely by descriptive, classificatory and chronological research. Furthermore, early analyses were biased geographically towards the north of the island and were almost totally reliant on material excavated from tombs. This paper investigates the question of specialized Pottery production for funerary internment. The clarification of Prehistoric Bronze Age (c. 2400-1700 BC) Pottery production will help elucidate arguments for increasing social complexity which frequently incorporate the specialized production of funerary or ritual Pottery. Use-wear analysis is proposed as the most appropriate means of investigating the question of the specialized production of funerary Pottery. Red Polished Pottery from cemetery and settlement sites of the Prehistoric Bronze Age in Cyprus is studied and compared for the presence and patterning of use-wear. The results suggest a domestic origin for much of the Red Polished Pottery recovered from Prehistoric Bronze Age tombs, a result that offers a far greater corpus of potential information about society at this period than initially perceived. The implications of these results also affect currently proposed models of Pottery production and social behaviour in funerary contexts.
Cecilia Assis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Sanan Rai : patrimóniu ne'ebé besik lakon iha Timor-Leste = Sanan Rai : um património em extinção em Timor-Leste = Sanan Rai : a vanishing heritage in Timor-Leste
2014Co-Authors: Jean-christophe Galipaud, Cecilia AssisAbstract:Pottery is an important cultural marker of ancient societies all around the world. In Island South-East Asia and Oceania, Pottery-making techniques diffused ca. 4000 to 3000 years ago when Austronesian-speaking communities spread through the region. In Timor-Leste, Pottery was introduced at least 3500 years ago and the traditional Pottery still produced in some villages across the country reflect this very ancient tradition. Since the 1970', researchers who recorded Pottery techniques and productions in Timor-Leste pointed to the urgent need of documenting a rapidly vanishing tradition. In 2014, the situation is alarming: out of more than 30 villages where Pottery was known to be produced in the 1970', only a few are still producing today and the techniques are not being transmitted to the younger generation anymore. This book presents examples of communities in Timor-Leste where traditional Pottery-making still occurs. The book is part of a global project implemented by the State Secretariat of Arts and Culture with support from the French Institute for Research and Development (IRD), to raise awareness on Pottery-making practices in Timor-Leste and to promote potters' communities, in order to ensure a successful transition of this important heritage into a modern and more sustainable economy.
