Description
Book SynopsisTracing Pottery-Making Recipes in the Prehistoric Balkans 6th–4th Millennia BC is a collection of twelve chapters that capture the variety of current archaeological, ethnographic, experimental and scientific studies on Balkan prehistoric ceramic production, distribution and use. The Balkans is a culturally rich area at the present day as it was in the past. Pottery and other ceramics represent an ideal tool with which to examine this diversity and interpret its human and environmental origins. Consequently, Balkan ceramic studies is an emerging field within archaeology that serves as a testing ground for theories on topics such as technological know-how, innovation, craft tradition, cultural transmission, interaction, trade and exchange. This book brings together diverse studies by leading researchers and upcoming scholars on material from numerous Balkan countries and chronological periods that tackle these and other topics for the first time. It is a valuable resource for anyone working on Balkan archaeology and also of interest to those working on archaeological pottery from other parts of the world.
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction: Tracing Pottery Making Recipes in the Prehistoric Balkans, 6th- 4th Millennium BC (Silvia Amicone)
1. Tempering Expectations: What Do West Balkan Potters Think They Are Doing? (Richard Carlton)
2. Making and Using Bread-Baking Pans: Ethnoarchaeological Research in Serbia (Biljana Djordjević)
3. On the Organisation of Ceramic Production within the Kodjadermen–Gumelniţa–Karanovo VI, Varna, and Krivodol–Sălcuţa–Bubanj Hum Ia Cultures (Petya Georgieva)
4. Clay Recipes, Pottery Typologies and the Neolithisation of Southeast Europe A Case Study from Džuljunica-Smărdeš, Bulgaria (Beatrijs de Groot)
5. Looking into Pots: Understanding Neolithic Ceramic Technological Variability from Western Hungary (Attila Kreiter, Tibor Marton, Krisztián Oross and Péter Pánczél)
6. Organic Residue and Vessel Function Analysis from Five Neolithic and Eneolithic Sites in Eastern Croatia (Miloglav Ina and Jacqueline Balen)
7. Technological Variances between Tisza and Vinča Pottery in the Serbian Banat (Neda Mirković-Marić and Silvia Amicone)
8. Pottery Technology and Identity: Some Thoughts from the Balkans (Laure Salanova)
9. Pottery Production at Neolithic Pieria, Macedonia, Greece (Niki Saridaki and Kostas Kotsakis, Dushka Urem-Kotsou, Trisevgeni Papadakou and Anna Papaioannou)
10. Some Aspects Concerning Pottery Making at Radovanu-La Muscalu, Romania (first half of the 5th Millennium BC) (Cristian Eduard Ștefan)
11. Petrological Analysis of Late Neolithic Ceramics from the Tell Settlement of Gorzsa (South-East Hungary) (György Szakmány, Katalin Vanicsek, Zsolt Bendő, Attila Kreiter, Ákos Pető, Zsuzsa Lisztes-Szabó and Ferenc Horváth)
12. Technology and Function: Performance Characteristics and Usage Aspects of the Neolithic Pottery of the Central Balkans (Jasna Vuković)
