Starčevo ceramic technology: the first potters of the Middle Danube Basin / von Michela Spataro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spataro, Michela, author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie ; Band 341.

Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie ; Band 341

Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie ; Band 341. Neolithikum und Chalkolithikum in Südosteuropa ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Starčevo culture.

Balkan Peninsula--Antiquities.

Balkan Peninsula.

Neolithic period--Balkan Peninsula.

Neolithic period.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

459 pages : many illustrations (partly color) ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

Bonn : In Kommission bei Verlag Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH, 2019.

Summary:

Early Neolithic Star?evo groups made the first ceramics and fired clay cult objects in the Middle Danube basin during the 6th millennium BC. These groups were also the first farmers in the region. This study of Star?evo everyday pottery, ceramic figurines and four-legged vessels from Slavonia, Serbia and Romania shows that the same pottery chaîne opératoire was used throughout this region, at sites located in different geological settings, where potters could have used a wider range of raw materials. Starcevo potters were not specialists, but some later Starcevo ceramics were more sophisticated, particularly in decoration techniques. The similarity of pottery technology throughout the Middle Danube basin shows the ongoing connectedness and intermixing of Starcevo communities, while the use of one chaîne opératoire for almost a millennium, and the lack of technological exchange with contemporaneous Adriatic Impressed Ware pottery, reveals a con-servative society, in which intergenerational transmission of technical skills and a strong network may have helped to maintain social stability over time.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-459).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783774942349

377494234X

OCLC:

1138878739

Publisher Number:

9783774942349