Not so coarse, nor always plain � the earliest pottery of Syria

• Autores: Olivier Nieuwenhuyse, Peter M.M.G. Akkermans, Johannes Van der Plicht
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 84, Nº 323, 2010, págs. 71-85
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The site of Tell Sabi Abyad in Syria offers a superb stratified sequence passing from the aceramic (pre-pottery) to pottery-using Neolithic around 7000 BC. Surprisingly the first pottery arrives fully developed with mineral tempering, burnishing and stripey decoration in painted slip. The expected, more experimental-looking, plant-tempered coarse wares shaped by baskets arrive about 300 years later. Did the first ceramic impetus come from elsewhere?