In:
Praehistorische Zeitschrift, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Vol. 94, No. 1 ( 2019-12-01), p. 1-30
Abstract:
40 potsherds and five other fired clay fragments from the prehistoric site of Nova Nadezhda in Bulgarian Thrace were analysed by archaeometric techniques. Twenty sherds and a daub fragment were analysed in thin section by optical microscopy; these thin sections, and thick sections of a further 24 sherds were also analysed by SEM-EDX. Results were used to describe the Early Neolithic chaîne opératoire at Nova Nadezhda, which was then compared to pottery production in roughly contemporaneous Starčevo-Criş communities in the central Balkans, to shed light on the Neolithisation process that took place in the 6th millennium BC. A variety of ceramic recipes was used to make different vessel shapes. Analyses of surface coatings were particularly enlightening in terms of provenance and the organisation of pottery production.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1613-0804
,
0079-4848
DOI:
10.1515/pz-2019-0007
Language:
Unknown
Publisher:
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Publication Date:
2019
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2050013-0
SSG:
6,11
