Product Description: A long-overdue advancement in ceramic studies, this volume sheds new light on the adoption and dispersal of pottery by non-agricultural societies of prehistoric Eurasia. Major contributions from Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia make this a truly international work that brings together different theories and material for the first time...read more

Product Description: This book explores the emergence of ceramics in the Late Palaeolithic of China, Japan and Eastern Siberia, and the adoption and dispersal of this technology by hunter gatherer groups of Northern Eurasia. This book examines the practical impact of this had on forager communities, their health and diet, and assesses the role of ceramics as symbolic expression and a focus of social relations...read more

Product Description: 13 papers, from a conference held by the Prehistoric Society in Sheffield in 1999, look at the subject of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition and the ethnoarchaeology of hunter-gatherers. The result is a diverse set of papers which are broadly grouped around issues of space, social change and material culture, with case studies taken from Britain, Siberia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Italy, Greece, Papua New Guinea and America...read more

Product Description: An international conference held in Poland in 1992 investigated the condition of the later Mesolithic communities in the Baltic region and on the genesis of the Neolithic. The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition has traditionally been studied using evidence from western Europe, but this conference focused upon the previously poorly known evidence from the former Eastern Bloc countries of the Baltic and adjacent areas...read more