Modelling the diffusion of pottery technologies across Afro-Eurasia: emerging insights and future research. (17th May 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Jordan, Peter; Gibbs, Kevin; Hommel, Peter; Piezonka, Henny; Silva, Fabio; Steele, James
• Is Part Of: Antiquity. Volume 90:Number 351(2016)
• Page Start: 590
• Page End: 603
• Publication Date: 2016-05-17
• Subjects: Neolithic transition, -- hunter-gatherers, -- agriculture, -- pottery, -- statistical model, -- radiocarbon dating, -- diffusion; Archaeology -- Periodicals; Antiquities -- Periodicals; 930.05
• DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2016.68
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-598X

Abstract

Abstract: Abstract : Where did pottery first appear in the Old World? Statistical modelling of radiocarbon dates suggests that ceramic vessel technology had independent origins in two different hunter-gatherer societies. Regression models were used to estimate average rates of spread and geographic dispersal of the new technology. The models confirm independent origins in East Asia ( c . 16000 cal BP) and North Africa ( c . 12000 cal BP). The North African tradition may have later influenced the emergence of Near Eastern pottery, which then flowed west into Mediterranean Europe as part of a Western Neolithic, closely associated with the uptake of farming.