Modelling the Diffusion of Pottery Technologies across Afro-Eurasia: Emerging Insights and Future Research
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2016
Publication Title
Antiquity
Volume
90
Issue
351
First page number:
590
Last page number:
603
Abstract
Where did pottery first appear in the Old World? Statistical modelling of radiocarbon dates suggests that ceramic vessel technology had independent origins in two different hunter-gatherer societies. Regression models were used to estimate average rates of spread and geographic dispersal of the new technology. The models confirm independent origins in East Asia (c. 16000 cal BP) and North Africa (c. 12000 cal BP). The North African tradition may have later influenced the emergence of Near Eastern pottery, which then flowed west into Mediterranean Europe as part of a Western Neolithic, closely associated with the uptake of farming. Copyright © 2016 Antiquity Publications Ltd.
Keywords
agriculture; diffusion; hunter-gatherers; Neolithic transition; pottery; radiocarbon dating; statistical model
Language
English
Repository Citation
Jordan, P.,
Gibbs, K.,
Hommel, P.,
Piezonka, H.,
Silva, F.,
Steele, J.
(2016).
Modelling the Diffusion of Pottery Technologies across Afro-Eurasia: Emerging Insights and Future Research.
Antiquity, 90(351),
590-603.
http://dx.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.68