Ceramics in Circumpolar Prehistory (eBook, ePUB)

Technology, Lifeways and Cuisine
Redaktion: Jordan, Peter

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Throughout prehistory the Circumpolar World was inhabited by hunter-gatherers. Pottery-making would have been extremely difficult in these cold, northern environments, and the craft should never have been able to disperse into this region. However, archaeologists are now aware that pottery traditions were adopted widely across the Northern World and went on to play a key role in subsistence and social life. This book sheds light on the human motivations that lay behind the adoption of pottery, the challenges that had to be overcome in order to produce it, and the solutions that emerged. Including essays by an international team of scholars, the volume offers a compelling portrait of the role that pottery cooking technologies played in northern lifeways, both in the prehistoric past and in more recent ethnographic times.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108577502
• Artikelnr.: 54555122

Inhaltsangabe

1. Cold winters, hot soups and frozen clay: understanding the emergence of
ceramic traditions across the Circumpolar North Kevin Gibbs and Peter
Jordan; 2. Why did northern foragers make pottery?: Investigating the role
of incipient Jomon ceramics within wider hunter-gatherer subsistence
strategies in prehistoric Japan Junzo Uchiyama; 3. Vessels on the Vitim:
'Neolithic' ceramics in eastern Siberia V. M. Vetrov and P. N. Hommel; 4.
Maritime nomads of the Baltic Sea: ceramic traditions, collective
identities and prehistoric cuisine Sven Isaksson, Kevin Gibbs, and Peter
Jordan; 5. The paradox of pottery in the remote Kuril Islands Erik
Gjesfjeld; 6. Understanding the function of container technologies in
prehistoric SW Alaska Marjolein Admiraal and Rick Knecht; 7. Ethnographic
and archaeological perspectives on the use life of Northwest Alaskan
pottery Shelby Anderson; 8. An exploration of arctic ceramic and soapstone
cookware technologies and food preparation systems Liam Frink and Karen
Harry; 9. Ceramic use by middle and late woodland foragers of the Maritime
Foragers Michael Deal, Thomas Farrell, Latonia Hartery, Alison Harris and
Michael Sanders; 10. Prestige foods and the adoption of pottery by
Subarctic foragers Mathew Boyd, Megan Wady, Andrew Lints, Clarence Surette
and Scott Hamilton; 11. Use of ceramic technologies by circumpolar
hunter-gatherers: current progress and future research prospects Brian
Hayden.