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This work presents the most recent views on a subject of primordial importance for all students of history: the understanding of humankind's process of becoming, viewed through the study of the beginnings of pottery in the late forager, and early farmer societies of Europe.It is a collection of essays, by some of the prominent European scholars and young dynamic archaeologists whose works focus on the early European and Middle Eastern pottery, intended to present a new perspective on the rise of a new technology in prehistory.With the breadth, variety and novelty of the approaches presented, ""Early farmers, late foragers and ceramic traditions. On the beginning of pottery in Europe"" is a fascinating read for scholars, as well as for the public at large.

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'Archeaologists, especially those interested in ceramics, should read this book, which offers a great deal of information about ceramic traditions in the Neolithic of the Near East and Europe.' Raimond Thorn, European Journal of Archeaology, Sage Publications, 2010 If we wish to explain when, how and why communities first adopted pottery, context matters. Books such as these are therefore valuable contributions. This volume is recommended to everyone interested in the initial adoption of ceramics in Europe. Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse, Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies 23, 2007 The articles are presented in a geographically arranged order, from south to north, which also provides the book with a chronologically arrangement of the chapters... This structure works well. ...the book serves as a door opener to the ceramic traditions of Europe and opens up further reading due to interesting articles as well as rich reference lists. Lotte Eigeland and Steiner Solheim, Norwegian Archaeological Review, Vol 23, No. 1, November 2010

'Archeaologists, especially those interested in ceramics, should read this book, which offers a great deal of information about ceramic traditions in the Neolithic of the Near East and Europe.'Raimond Thorn, European Journal of Archeaology, Sage Publications, 2010'If we wish to explain when, how and why communities first adopted pottery, context matters. Books such as these are therefore valuable contributions.This volume is recommended to everyone interested in the initial adoption of ceramics in Europe.'Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse, Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies 23, 2007'The articles are presented in a geographically arranged order, from south to north, which also provides the book with a chronologically arrangement of the chapters... This structure works well....the book serves as a door opener to the ceramic traditions of Europe and opens up further reading due to interesting articles as well as rich reference lists.'Lotte Eigeland and Steiner Solheim, Norwegian Archaeological Review, Vol 23, No. 1, November 2010

'Archeaologists, especially those interested in ceramics, should read this book, which offers a great deal of information about ceramic traditions in the Neolithic of the Near East and Europe.'Raimond Thorn, European Journal of Archeaology, Sage Publications, 2010 If we wish to explain when, how and why communities first adopted pottery, context matters. Books such as these are therefore valuable contributions.This volume is recommended to everyone interested in the initial adoption of ceramics in Europe. Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse, Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies 23, 2007 The articles are presented in a geographically arranged order, from south to north, which also provides the book with a chronologically arrangement of the chapters... This structure works well....the book serves as a door opener to the ceramic traditions of Europe and opens up further reading due to interesting articles as well as rich reference lists. Lotte Eigeland and Steiner Solheim, Norwegian Archaeological Review, Vol 23, No. 1, November 2010

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Professor Dragos Gheorghiu is an anthropologist and experimental archaeologist whose studies focus on the process of cognition, and material culture, of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic societies of South Eastern Europe. His most recent research is concerned with the reconstruction of prehistoric kilns and wattle and daub buildings.Professor Gheorghiu is the author of multiple books on archaic technologies, he is the editor and co-editor of a series of publications on pyro-technologies, and has a sustained publication activity on prehistoric material culture in Europe.

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