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EMERGENCE OF POTTERY PB (Smithsonian Series in Archaeological Inquiry)

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A comprehensive, illustrated, scholarly, and accessible piece of work.

A terrific production from Smithsonian: hardback with cloth-covered hardback boards, 285 pp, with probably over 100 illustrations: maps, charts, drawings, photos, tables.

Extensive bibliographies at the end of each chapter.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Shape of Early Pottery Studies

The Old World
- First in the World: Jomon Pottery of Early Japan
- Few and Far Between: Early Ceramics in North Africa
- Inception of Potting in Western Asia
- Pots, Potters, and the Shaping of Greek Neolithic Society
- Starcevo Pottery in the Central Balkans
- Early Pottery in the Western Mediterranean
- The Linear Pottery Culture of Central Europe: Conservative Colonists?
- Pottery and the Introduction of Agriculture in Southern Scandinavia

The New World
- Early Pottery in the Amazon: 20 Years of Scholarly Obscurity
- Rocks vs. Clay
- Sites with Early Ceramics in the Caribbean Littoral of Columbia
- Valdivia Ceramics
- Monagrillo: Panama's First Pottery
- Interaction in Hunting and Gathering Societies
- Early Ceramics from El Salvador
- Reinventing Mesoamerica's First Pottery
- Social Contradictions of Traditional and Innovative Cooking in the Prehistoric American Southwest
- Ceramic Containers in the American Southwest

Theory and Critique
- The Emergence of Prestige Technologies and Pottery
- Social Strategies and Economic Change: Pottery in Context
- Why Did They Invent Pottery Anyway?