Description
Decorations and surface treatments on early Neolithic ceramics continue to play a key role in models of the spread of farming to Europe. ‘Waves’ of ceramic styles such as dark-faced-burnished ware and red-monochrome ware have been used as chrono-typological guide-fossils, contributing to still active discussions concerning the location of migration routes an networks. Recent research has looked more closely at the techniques to produce the red slip layer of Early Neolithic monochrome ware in the Balkans, revealing technological variation within the same types of surface treatments (e.g. Spataro 2016, de Groot 2019). Determining the spatio-temporal variation of different techno-styles further can contribute to understanding the processes of imitation, experimentation, learning and interaction that underpin visual similarities in material culture.This talk provides an initial theorisation of how variation in techniques underpinning ‘similar’ decorations and surface developed during the Neolithic in western Anatolia, the Aegean and the Balkans. By drawing on a number of case-study sites, it will consider the spatio-temporal of techno-styles within dark-faced burnished ware, red-burnished ware, and calcareous encrusted decorations and discuss how future research can complement current views on social interaction, technological change and creativity underpinning the development of similarities in Neolithic ceramic styles.
| Period | 9 Sept 2021 |
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| Event title | EAA annual meeting: European Association of Archaeologists |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | KielShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |