Description
Sheds light on the motivations that lay behind the adoption of pottery, the challenges that had to be overcome.
About the Author
Peter Jordan is Director of the Arctic Centre and holds the Chair in Arctic Studies at the University of Groningen. He is a specialist in Circumpolar hunter-gatherers and has published widely on the technology and lifeways of northern peoples past and present, particularly in Siberia. His recent books include: Ceramics before Farming (2010), Landscape and Culture in Northern Eurasia (2010), Technology as Human Social Tradition (2014) and The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers (2014). Kevin Gibbs is Assistant Researcher at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include early pottery technology and use, hunter-gatherer archaeology, and the Neolithic period. His recent research has been published in Nature, PNAS and Antiquity.
Reviews
'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, 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, Choice
Book Information
ISBN 9781107118249
Author Peter Jordan
Format Hardback
Page Count 246
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 690g
Dimensions(mm) 262mm * 183mm * 16mm