Early pottery mobility: The case of early Neolithic Thessaly, Greece
Early pottery mobility: The case of early Neolithic Thessaly, Greece
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早期陶器的流动性:以希腊新石器时代早期色萨利为例
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10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.01.008
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2017
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A. Dimoula
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A. Dimoula
The earliest ceramic vessels in Greece have been identified in archaeological layers dated to the initial Neolithic, ie the mid-7th millennium BCE, in a series of Neolithic sites in Thessaly (Reingruber, 2008) in central-northern Greece, in the cave of Franchthi in the Peloponnese (Vitelli, 1993b) and in Knossos in Crete (Tomkins and Day, 2001, Tomkins et al., 2004). Recent archaeological field research in northern Greece, and particularly in the region of Macedonia, has brought to light a new series of early Neolithic sites which have yielded dated and contextualized early pottery, currently analysed (Kotsakis, 2014, Maniatis, 2014, Dimoula, in press, Saridaki et al., in press)(Fig. 1).The presence of baked clay masses or even ceramic sherds in Paleolithic or Mesolithic contexts indicate that ceramic materials were not unknown to the earlier inhabitants of Greece (Galanidou and Perlès, 2003). However, in the subsequent early Neolithic period pottery appears as a fully developed craft, characterized by effective technological choices in all stages of manufacture (Vitelli, 1995). Moreover, there is a complete lack of evidence related to possible experimentations with this innovative then technique. This has led to the assumption that pottery technology was part of the so-called ‘Neolithic package’, an accumulation of materials, techniques and knowledge, believed to have transferred from the Near East to the Aegean and the Balkans through demic or cultural diffusion (Ammerman and Biagi, 2003). In this context, the common morphological characteristics of pots throughout broad geographic regions are considered as evidence of such processes (Brami and Heyd, 2011).