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- Title
Pottery Invention and Innovation in East Asia and the Near East.
- Authors
Gibbs, Kevin
- Abstract
The invention of ceramic objects made from fire-hardened clay represents an important and early step in the development of pyrotechnology. This paper examines pottery invention and innovation by hunter-gatherers in East Asia and by farmers in the Near East to examine how prehistoric communities in different socio-economic systems came to rely heavily on fired-clay containers. Drawing on advances in archaeological science, it examines from a comparative perspective early pottery's broader entanglements related to technology and use and argues that early pottery production by farmers in the Near East can be viewed as a process of innovation in a longer tradition of container technology, while the first hunter-gatherer pottery production in East Asia provides a better case for independent invention.
- Subjects
POTTERY; HISTORY of pottery; INVENTIONS; HUNTER-gatherer societies; EAST Asian civilization; CERAMICS; PREHISTORIC containers; HISTORY
- Publication
Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2015, Vol 25, Issue 1, p339
- ISSN
0959-7743
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0959774314001139