What are large‐scale Archaeometric programmes for? Bell beaker pottery and societies from the third millennium BC in Western Europe. (19th May 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Salanova, L.; Prieto‐Martínez, M. P.; Clop‐García, X.; Convertini, F.; Lantes‐Suárez, O.; Martínez‐Cortizas, A.
• Is Part Of: Archaeometry. Volume 58:Number 5(2016)
• Page Start: 722
• Page End: 735
• Publication Date: 2015-05-19
• Subjects: pottery -- bell beakers -- western europe -- decorated pottery -- domestic wares -- circulation mechanisms -- social organization; Archaeometry -- Periodicals; Archaeology -- Expertising -- Periodicals; 930.1
• DOI: 10.1111/arcm.12173
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-813X

Abstract

Abstract : Variability in clay processing recipes for pottery is still at a descriptive stage as far as prehistoric contexts are concerned. This paper intends to go beyond our traditional limits, based on the best‐documented case for prehistory, the Bell Beaker style, which spread throughout the whole of Europe during the third millenniumbc . The thousands of archaeometric analyses that have been carried out on the main concentrations from France, Spain and Portugal are taken into account in order to reconstruct the circulation mechanisms of the pottery and the social organization of the communities who used it.