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  3. Ceramics in Circumpolar Prehistory
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      • Edited by Peter Jordan, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands, Kevin Gibbs, University of California, Berkeley
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      19 November 2018
      07 March 2019
      ISBN:
      9781316339374
      9781107118249
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316339374
      Dimensions:
      (253 x 177 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.69kg, 246 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Prehistory, Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Archaeology of Europe and The Near and Middle East, Archaeology
      Series:
      Archaeology of the North
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    Subjects:
    Prehistory, Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Archaeology of Europe and The Near and Middle East, Archaeology
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    Archaeology of the North
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    Throughout prehistory the Circumpolar World was inhabited by hunter-gatherers. Pottery-making would have been extremely difficult in these cold, northern environments, and the craft should never have been able to disperse into this region. However, archaeologists are now aware that pottery traditions were adopted widely across the Northern World and went on to play a key role in subsistence and social life. This book sheds light on the human motivations that lay behind the adoption of pottery, the challenges that had to be overcome in order to produce it, and the solutions that emerged. Including essays by an international team of scholars, the volume offers a compelling portrait of the role that pottery cooking technologies played in northern lifeways, both in the prehistoric past and in more recent ethnographic times.

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    ‘The book is well illustrated, and the references that follow each chapter are up to date. The book will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students in archaeology as well as researchers in the field.'

    M. J. O'Brien Source: Choice

    'This is an excellent book on a little-known archaeological fact that prehistoric and ethnographically known hunter-gatherers who lived in circumpolar regions produced pottery … The book is well illustrated, and the references that follow each chapter are up to date. The book will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students in archaeology as well as researchers in the field. It's written and edited to appeal to general readers with some knowledge of archaeology.'

    M. J. O'Brien Source: Choice

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