2018
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2018.54
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The discovery of the earliest specialised Middle Neolithic pottery workshop in western Thessaly, central Greece

Abstract: Disparity in recorded Neolithic activity between the eastern and western Thessaly plain in central Greece is being redressed by the ‘Long Time No See’ landscape project. A recently discovered pottery kiln complex at Magoula Rizava tell site offers exciting new evidence for intra-regional pottery production and circulation during the Middle Neolithic period.

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“…The possibility that these built features are actual kilns used for specialized pottery production this early in the Neolithic is significant. The uncovering of similar evidence in another recently excavated site, roughly 30 km to the west in the Municipality of Karditsa (Krachtopoulou, Dimoula, Livarda, & Saridaki, ), further enhances the potential of Imvrou Pigadi containing evidence of pyrotechnology and specialized production. So far, no other Neolithic excavations have produced comparable evidence of such potential in Greece, where only a very few isolated examples of suspected kilns have been identified.…”
Section: Site and Physical Locationmentioning
confidence: 77%
“…The possibility that these built features are actual kilns used for specialized pottery production this early in the Neolithic is significant. The uncovering of similar evidence in another recently excavated site, roughly 30 km to the west in the Municipality of Karditsa (Krachtopoulou, Dimoula, Livarda, & Saridaki, ), further enhances the potential of Imvrou Pigadi containing evidence of pyrotechnology and specialized production. So far, no other Neolithic excavations have produced comparable evidence of such potential in Greece, where only a very few isolated examples of suspected kilns have been identified.…”
Section: Site and Physical Locationmentioning
confidence: 77%
“…It is generally assumed that Neolithic pottery was fired in bonfires, but early examples of pottery kilns are known; for instance, from Thessaly in Greece (Krahtopoulou et al . 2018). It is unlikely, however, that the oven from Kortrijk functioned as a pottery kiln, as a single construction phase is observed for the dome—multiple phases would be expected, due to removal of the dome after each firing in order to access the ceramics.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The surface colour and hardness of the earliest ceramics suggest that firing methods were rather irregular. Most commonly clay objects would have been baked in open bonfires (Moore, 1995: 47), something that has in many cases also been confirmed by scientific analysis (Rice, 2005: 152–158; Tomkins et al, 2004: 54; Vitelli, 1989), although new evidence for the use of kilns has recently come to light (Krahtopoulou et al, 2018; Laviano and Muntoni, 2006). In addition, clay ovens, probably used for baking bread and other foodstuff, are known from Pre-Pottery Neolithic in SW Asia (e.g.…”
Section: On Technical Ensemblesmentioning
confidence: 99%