“It takes a village”: An integrated approach to pottery production in the early Neolithic settlements of the Aisne Valley (Picardy, France)
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9 novembre 2023
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Marzia Gabriele et al., « “It takes a village”: An integrated approach to pottery production in the early Neolithic settlements of the Aisne Valley (Picardy, France) », HAL-SHS : archéologie, ID : 10670/1.zwxony
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Using the concept of “chaîne opératoire”, the collaborative work presented in this paper aimed to reconstruct the sequences of technical gestures carried out by the early Neolithic pottery producers of the Aisne Valley (Picardy, France), from the selection and preparation of raw materials, through forming and finishing, to decoration and firing. Based on the analysis of pottery from 10 LBK settlements, this study combining petrographical, micro- and macroscopic surface and cross-section analyses (in particular using SEM and micro-tomography), reveals several technical traditions suggesting that pottery production was carried out by different groups of producers, and, for most part of the production, on a domestic scale. Putting these different technical traditions into spatial and temporal perspective enables us to identify distinct learning networks whose structure and development can be traced in the Aisne Valley throughout the LBK sequence up to the post-LBK transition, revealing the trajectories of the different groups of producers identified among the different settlements and houses.