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Spiralled patchwork in pottery manufacture and the introduction of farming to Southern Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2017

Louise Gomart ,
Allon Weiner ,
Marzia Gabriele ,
Gilles Durrenmath ,
Sabine Sorin ,
Lucia Angeli ,
Marta Colombo ,
Cristina Fabbri ,
Roberto Maggi  and
Chiara Panelli Open the ORCID record for Chiara Panelli [Opens in a new window]
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Louise Gomart*
Affiliation:
Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Cultures et environnements: Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen Âge, 24 avenue des Diables Bleus, 06357 Nice, France
Allon Weiner
Affiliation:
Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Valrose, Parc Valrose, 06108 Nice, France
Marzia Gabriele
Affiliation:
Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, GéoAzur, 250 Rue Albert Einstein, 06560 Valbonne, France
Gilles Durrenmath
Affiliation:
Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Cultures et environnements: Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen Âge, 24 avenue des Diables Bleus, 06357 Nice, France
Sabine Sorin
Affiliation:
Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Cultures et environnements: Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen Âge, 24 avenue des Diables Bleus, 06357 Nice, France
Lucia Angeli
Affiliation:
Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, Via Pasquale Paoli 15, 56126 Pisa, Italy
Marta Colombo
Affiliation:
Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, Via Pasquale Paoli 15, 56126 Pisa, Italy
Cristina Fabbri
Affiliation:
Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, Via Pasquale Paoli 15, 56126 Pisa, Italy
Roberto Maggi
Affiliation:
Istituto Internazionale di Studi Liguri, sezione Tigullia, via Costaguta 2, 16043 Chiavari, Italy
Chiara Panelli
Affiliation:
Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Cultures et environnements: Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen Âge, 24 avenue des Diables Bleus, 06357 Nice, France Università degli studi di Genova, Dipartimento di Antichità, Filosofia e Storia, via Balbi 2, 16126 Genova, Italy
Didier F. Pisani
Affiliation:
Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Valrose, Parc Valrose, 06108 Nice, France
Giovanna Radi
Affiliation:
Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, Via Pasquale Paoli 15, 56126 Pisa, Italy
Carlo Tozzi
Affiliation:
Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, Via Pasquale Paoli 15, 56126 Pisa, Italy
Didier Binder
Affiliation:
Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Cultures et environnements: Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen Âge, 24 avenue des Diables Bleus, 06357 Nice, France
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*Author for correspondence (Email: louise.gomart@cnrs.fr)
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Abstract

Pottery-manufacturing sequences can act as proxies for human migration and interaction. A good example is provided by the ‘spiralled patchwork technology’ (SPT) identified at two key early farming sites in the Ligurian-Provencal Arc in the north-west of the Italian peninsula. SPT is distinct from the ceramic technology used by early farmer communities in south-east Italy that shows technical continuity with the southern Balkans. Macroscopic analysis and micro-computed tomography suggests the presence of two communities of practice, and thus two distinct social groups in the northern Mediterranean: one of southern Balkan tradition, the other (associated with SPT) of as yet unknown origin. The identification of SPT opens up the exciting possibility of tracing the origins and migrations of a second distinct group of early farmers into Southern Europe.

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MediterraneanEarly NeolithicfarmingceramicsImpressed Waremicro-computed tomography

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Antiquity , Volume 91 , Issue 360 , December 2017 , pp. 1501 - 1514
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