Seventy Years of Pottery Studies in the Archaeology of Mesolithic and Neolithic Sudan

D'Ercole, Giulia (2021): Seventy Years of Pottery Studies in the Archaeology of Mesolithic and Neolithic Sudan. In: African Archaeological Review, Bd. 38, Nr. 2: S. 345-372

Abstract

This review article examines seventy years of research and methodological approaches to the analysis of Mesolithic and Neolithic pottery in Sudan. It begins with the studies done by A. J. Arkell at the end of the 1940s, leading to the definition of the Khartoum Mesolithic and Khartoum Neolithic ceramic traditions. The article then discusses the application of the concepts of ware, fabric, decorative technique, and chaine operatoire to the analysis of pottery and the use of new classification tools and archaeometric methodologies. The implication of the concepts of cultural encounter and the communicative role of material culture for ceramic studies and the insights that ceramics can provide for understanding the interrelationships between humans and the landscape are also discussed.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Kulturwissenschaften > Department für Kulturwissenschaften und Altertumskunde
• Themengebiete: 900 Geschichte und Geografie > 900 Geschichte
• ISSN: 0263-0338
• Sprache: Englisch