Networking through pottery characterisation at Takarkori rock shelter (Libyan Sahara, 10,200–4650 cal BP)

Eramo, Giacomo; Muntoni, Italo M.; Aprile, Anna; Pallara, Mauro; Rotunno, Rocco; Zerboni, Andrea; Lernia, Savino di

doi:10.1007/s12520-020-01118-x

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“…Pottery form and decoration changes in the Pastoral period with vessels with a globular body and short neck or collar often being smoothed or burnished. Decoration shifts to the alternately pivoting stamp (APS) technique where a double-pronged implement is used in a rocker-like movement producing a variety of motifs, characterised by very regular patterns of rows of dots, incorporating paired lines, dashes or triangles (Caneva 1987;Eramo et al 2020).…”

Section: Takarkori and Uan Afuda Rockshelterpotterymentioning

confidence: 99%

Gone to seed? Early pottery and plant processing in Holocene north Africa

Dunne

2022

Quaternary International

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Section: Takarkori and Uan Afuda Rockshelterpotterymentioning

confidence: 99%

Gone to seed? Early pottery and plant processing in Holocene north Africa

Dunne

2022

Quaternary International

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“…Recently, there have been new publications on African ceramics by interdisciplinary teams who offer a 360degree perspective that combines traditional stylistic and technological analyses with archaeometry, including optical microscopy (OM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray fluorescence (XRF), instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA), and organic residue analysis. Although archaeometric studies of ceramics are increasingly popular in African archaeology (e.g., Dunne et al 2018;Eramo et al 2020;Fewlass et al 2020), these methodologies are not yet widespread, and some regions lag behind others (Ashley and Grillo 2015, p. 466).…”

Section: Ceramics and Ceramic Studies In The African Continentmentioning

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Seventy Years of Pottery Studies in the Archaeology of Mesolithic and Neolithic Sudan

D’Ercole

2021

Afr Archaeol Rev

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This review article examines seventy years of research and methodological approaches to the analysis of Mesolithic and Neolithic pottery in Sudan. It begins with the studies done by A. J. Arkell at the end of the 1940s, leading to the definition of the Khartoum Mesolithic and Khartoum Neolithic ceramic traditions. The article then discusses the application of the concepts of ware, fabric, decorative technique, and chaîne opératoire to the analysis of pottery and the use of new classification tools and archaeometric methodologies. The implication of the concepts of cultural encounter and the communicative role of material culture for ceramic studies and the insights that ceramics can provide for understanding the interrelationships between humans and the landscape are also discussed.

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“…In the Libyan Sahara, hunter-gatherer-fishers of the Late Acacus (ca. 10,200–8000 cal BP) adopted pottery during a humid period [ 7 ] with one study suggesting long-distance pottery circulation in the context of seasonally residentially mobile hunting and gathering [ 3 ]. Despite these scattered results from Holocene contexts, sourcing of late Pleistocene pottery produced and used by foragers have been rare and distribution mechanisms remain unclear.…”

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Late Pleistocene pottery production and exchange: Provenance studies of hunter-gatherer wares from southern Kyushu, Japan by neutron activation analysis

2022

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Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers in East Asia adopted pottery, yet the ability to reconstruct circulation, mobility, and exchange has been hampered, in part, due to problematic regional geochronology. The driving forces behind pottery adoption is unclear. The purpose of this study is to test our results of the first systematic petrographic pottery sourcing from the pre-Younger Dryas by utilizing neutron activation analysis. We examine samples from the Sankauyama I site on Tanegashima Island, southern Japan, dating to the Incipient Jomon, ca. 14,000/13,500–12,800 cal BP, with a well-defined geochronology. Our NAA results corroborate with the petrographic study suggesting that pottery was mainly produced in-situ, but some vessels were transported long distances from another island. Changing from high mobility, sedentary Incipient Jomon foragers made pottery, occasionally investing in long-distance ceramic vessel transportation and exchange likely involving ocean crossing. This may be associated with a risk-buffering strategy in the context of rising sea levels and isolation of Tanegashima.

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Networking through pottery characterisation at Takarkori rock shelter (Libyan Sahara, 10,200–4650 cal BP)

Cited by 9 publications

References 45 publications

Gone to seed? Early pottery and plant processing in Holocene north Africa

Gone to seed? Early pottery and plant processing in Holocene north Africa

Seventy Years of Pottery Studies in the Archaeology of Mesolithic and Neolithic Sudan

Late Pleistocene pottery production and exchange: Provenance studies of hunter-gatherer wares from southern Kyushu, Japan by neutron activation analysis

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