Neolithic Pottery from the Near East – Production, Distribution and Use

Rana Özbal is associate professor of archaeology and the history of art at Koç University in Istanbul. Mücella Erdalkiran is assistant professor in the Department of Archaeology at Ege University in Bornova, Turkey. Yukiko Tonoike is associate research scientist and coordinator for the InterAsia Initiative at the Council on East Asian Studies at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University.

• 1)Introduction to the Volume and a Celebration of Olivier Nieuwenhuyse’s Research-Rana Özbal, Yukiko Tonoike, and Mücella ErdalkiranPART I: CERAMIC PRODUCTION AND TECHNOLOGY2)White Ware or “Vaiselle Blache” in the Chrono-Cultural and Technological Context of the First Ceramic Productions in Tell Halula (Euphrates Valley)-Miquel Molist, Anna Gómez-Bach, Josep Faura, Mercè Gangonells, Cristina López, Adria Breu, and Quim Sisa3)Akarçay Tepe In South Eastern Turkey: A Key Site on the Origins of the First Pottery Productions in the Near East-Walter Cruells and Miquel Molist4)A Technological Approach to Pre-Halaf Pottery of Tell Halula: A Chaîne Opératoire Overview-Silvia Calvo, Anna Gómez Bach, Josep Miquel Faura and Miquel Molist5)Organization of Ceramic Production at Neolithic Ulucak -Çiler Çilingiroglu6)Preforms for Sequential Slab Construction?-Frank Hole and Yukiko Tonoike7)Neolithic Potting Traditions at Çukuriçi Höyük-Clare Burke and Barbara HorejsPART II: USING AND DECONSTRUCTING CATEGORIES8)Experience in Creating a Descriptive System for Morphology of Halafian Painted Pottery from Yarim-Tepe 2 (Iraq)-Shahmardan N. Amirov9)Boundaries and Regional Pottery Tradition in the Mid Sixth Millennium cal BCE: From Levant to Northern Zagros-Anna Gómez Bach10)Not Only Painted – A Re-Examination of the Pottery Assemblage from the Site of Hajji Muhammad: A Techno-Morphological Approach-Luca Volpi11)Hybrid Styles: Categorizing Painted Pottery at 6th Millennium Fistikli Höyük-Nolwen Rol12)Reassessment of Halaf Fine Ware from Yunus, Gaziantep -Mücella Erdalkiran13)Neolithic Potsherds from Tell Hassuna: The Collection of the University Museum, the University of Tokyo-Takahiro OdakaPART III: ARCHAEOMETRIC AND EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES14)Potting on the Edge of the Painted Traditions: Ceramic Regionalism and the Role of Craft Production during the Neolithic of the Central Levant-Kamal Badreshany and Graham Philip 15)Animal Residues From 7th and 6th Millennia BCE Pottery at Tell Halula -Adrià Breu, Anna Gómez-Bach, Josep-Miquel Faura, Antoni Rosell, and Miquel Molist16)Neolithic Pottery Technology of the Sinjar Valley, Northern Iraq (Proto-Hassuna and Archaic Hassuna Periods) -Natalia Petrova17)A First Assessment of Technological and Functional Traces on Late Neolithic Husking Trays from the Near East-Sergio Taranto, Vanessa Forte, Anna Gómez-Bach, Cristina Lemorini, and Miquel MolistPART IV: POTTERY IN SOCIAL AND RITUAL CONTEXTS18)Bull Symbolism in Anatolian Neolithic Pottery and Religious Life in Neolithic Society-Serap Özdöl-Kutlu19)Peopling Pots and Potting People: Anthropomorphic Vessels in the Halaf Culture and Chalcolithic Anatolia -Ellen H. Belcher20)Narrative Scenes on the Late Neolithic Pottery of Domuztepe -Halil Tekin21)What Can One Room Tell Us? The Pottery Assemblage of Room C70 in Building CI at Tel Tsaf, Middle Jordan Valley, Israel-Tamar Shooval and Danny RosenbergPART V: ENRICHING REGINAL REPERTOIRES THOUGH NEW DISCOVERIES22)New Data on the Late Neolithic Pottery from the Northern Upper Tigris Region: The Ambar Dam Reservoir-Tuba Ökse23)An Evaluation of the Late Neolithic Pottery Assemblages from the Kuseyr Plateau in Hatay Region (Turkey)-Canan Karatas Yüksel and Hatice Pamir24)The Early Pottery from Ugurlu on the Island of Gökçeada, Northeastern Aegean -Burçin Erdogu and Çigdem Atakuman