Painting Pot - Painting People. Investigating decorated ceramics from the Late Neolithic Near East
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Workshop |
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| Description | Over the past decades there has been a huge increase of research focusing on various aspects of ceramic production, distribution and consumption in the Neolithic (ca. 7000-5000 cal. BC). Each campaign of fieldwork brings new and exciting finds, ongoing laboratory studies keep changing our insights regarding ceramic technology, and young PhD’s embracing current trends in theoretical archaeology are changing our perspectives. Habitually the pottery specialists meet in the corridors of other conferences (e.g. ICAANE). Recently there have been specialized conferences/workshops concentrating upon particular aspects of the Neolithic (Leiden March 2009, Tsukuba-Tokyo October 2009). These conferences have shown that there is a need among ceramic specialists working in the Near East to come together on a more regular basis to exchange new information and emerging insights, and to discuss key issues regarding technology, terminology, classification, function and interpretation. The workshop in Brno – Rejvíz brings together specialists working on prehistoric ceramics from the Near East in the broadest sense. As a general focus the theme of Late Neolithic decorated pottery traditions was chosen. What raw materials and ceramic technologies did people employ? How did they paint their designs? How can we use decorated ceramics to explore social networks and identities? What did these decorated pottery traditions mean socially? |
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