This book is an introduction to the study of artefacts, setting them in a social context rather
than using a purely scientific approach. Drawing on a range of different cultures and …

This paper presents regional sequences of production, consumption and social relations in
southern Spain from the beginning of the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age (c. 5600–1550 …

In this book, Katina Lillios provides an up-to-date synthesis of the rich histories of the
peoples who lived on the Iberian Peninsula between 1,400,000 (the Paleolithic) and 3,500 …

From an analysis of over 3,000 beads and pendants from seven contemporary Late
Neolithic/Copper Age (3500–2500 BC) sites in the Portuguese Estremadura, two dominant …

This paper focuses on plain, stylistically unvaried pottery from three Late Neolithic sites from
the Mondego Plateau, Portugal, and investigates ceramic production and exchange among …

In this paper I explore the potential of cultural inheritance theory to address the specific
social contexts of craft production in prehistoric societies. Proponents of agency theory have …

Pottery from the Neolithic Mendandia site has been studied. The radiocarbon dating of the
site corresponds to a range of dates from 7488–7546 cal bc to 5283–5437 cal bc: the first …

This paper presents the characterisation of 48 ceramic samples from Cova d'En Pardo
(Alicante, Spain). Provenance and technology analysis are carried out on materials dated …

Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers in East Asia adopted pottery, yet the ability to reconstruct
circulation, mobility, and exchange has been hampered, in part, due to problematic regional …

La caracterización arqueométrica de un conjunto de materiales cerámicos procedentes de 6
yacimientos neolíticos de Madrid ha permitido identificar una nueva tradición tecnológica …