Hunter-fisher-gatherer pottery production and use at the Neolithic shell-midden of Riņņukalns, Latvia. (December 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Hunter-fisher-gatherer pottery production and use at the Neolithic shell-midden of Riņņukalns, Latvia. (December 2021)
- Main Title:
- Hunter-fisher-gatherer pottery production and use at the Neolithic shell-midden of Riņņukalns, Latvia
- Authors:
- Spataro, Michela
Oras, Ester
Lucquin, Alexandre
Bērziņš, Valdis - Abstract:
- Abstract: ABSTRACT: The shell-midden site of Riņņukalns in northern Latvia offers a rare opportunity to study long-term trends in ceramic production and function at a European hunter-fisher-gatherer site. Riņņukalns was occupied from the sixth millennium BC, with the midden developing from the later fourth millennium. Here, the authors discuss the chaîne opératoire and function of the Riņņukalns material, showing that pottery was used in both the pre-midden and midden phases primarily to cook aquatic and porcine resources. The technology used to produce these cooking vessels, however, changed over time, with new firing techniques associated with a shift to the use of shell temper. The results have implications for understanding prehistoric technology and subsistence in other parts of the world.
- Is Part Of:
- Antiquity. Volume 95:Number 384(2021)
- Journal:
- Antiquity
- Issue:
- Volume 95:Number 384(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 95, Issue 384 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 95
- Issue:
- 384
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0095-0384-0000
- Page Start:
- 1446
- Page End:
- 1463
- Publication Date:
- 2021-12
- Subjects:
- Latvia -- Riņņukalns -- Neolithic -- hunter-fisher-gatherers -- chaîne opératoire -- organic residue analysis
Archaeology -- Periodicals
Antiquities -- Periodicals
930.05 - Journal URLs:
- http://antiquity.ac.uk/ ↗
- DOI:
- 10.15184/aqy.2021.127 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0003-598X
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