ArticleNature human behaviour2023
The transmission of pottery technology among prehistoric European hunter-gatherers.
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- Selective culinary uses of plant foods by Northern and Eastern European hunter-gatherer-fishers.PloS one · 2026Article
- Bayesian analyses of radiocarbon dates suggest multiple origins of ceramic technology in Early Holocene Africa.Nature communications · 2025Article
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- Novel application of SANS provides quantitative non-destructive identification of forming techniques in late Roman and early medieval pottery from Pannonia.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Technology and provenience of the oldest pottery in the northern Pannonian Basin indicates its affiliation to hunter-gatherers.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Cultural attraction in pottery practice: Group-specific shape transformations by potters from three communities.PNAS nexus · 2024Article
- Culinary continuity in central Japan across the transition to agriculture.Archaeological and anthropological sciences · 2024Article
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- The impact of farming on prehistoric culinary practices throughout Northern Europe.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Parallel worlds and mixed economies: multi-proxy analysis reveals complex subsistence systems at the dawn of early farming in the northeast Baltic.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Pottery spread in ancient foragers.Nature human behaviour · 2023Article
- Diversified pottery use across 5th and 4th millennium cal BC Neolithic coastal communities along the Strait of Gibraltar.Archaeological and anthropological sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
Human history has been shaped by global dispersals of technologies, although understanding of what enabled these processes is limited. Here, we explore the behavioural mechanisms that led to the emergence of pottery among hunter-gatherer communities in Europe during the mid-Holocene. Through radiocarbon dating, we propose this dispersal occurred at a far faster rate than previously thought. Chemical characterization of organic residues shows that European hunter-gatherer pottery had a function structured around regional culinary practices rather than environmental factors. Analysis of the forms, decoration and technological choices suggests that knowledge of pottery spread through a process of cultural transmission. We demonstrate a correlation between the physical properties of pots and how they were used, reflecting social traditions inherited by successive generations of hunter-gatherers. Taken together the evidence supports kinship-driven, super-regional communication networks that existed long before other major innovations such as agriculture, writing, urbanism or metallurgy.
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