19th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists
4 - 8 septembre 2013
Pilsen (République tchèque)
http://www.eaa2013.cz/programme/academic-programme/list-of-sessions-round-tables/#a
When the potters make the story: what can pottery tell us about
the people who made and used it?
Laure SALANOVA (CNRS, Nanterre, France) & Alison SHERIDAN (National Museums
Scotland, Edinburgh, UK)
Pottery is the main component of many archaeological assemblages and, for over a century, it
has been one of the principal tools used to define cultural identity and to characterize culture
change. But the simplistic equation of ‘Pots = people’ has rightly been challenged, and in the
meantime a huge ethnohistoric literature has grown up around the question of what technical
and stylistic traditions actually mean to the people who make and use pots. Such studies
indicate that several different aspects of identity can indeed be conveyed through the design
and manufacture of pottery – and that there is also much more that pottery can tell us about
society (e.g. through examining its uses, the organization of its production, its symbolism, its
movement, etc.). These studies also make it clear that choices in the chaîne opératoire of
pottery manufacture are not all, or always, determined by the function of the end product –
something that was illustrated during the 17th Annual Meeting of the EEA in Oslo, in a
session that focused on the link between function and ceramic technology.
Pottery clearly does have a role to play in helping us to understand the nature of prehistoric
society. This session poses the question: are we, as archaeologists, making the most of what
pottery can tell us about its makers and users? Are we asking the right questions and using the
correct approaches when we study it? Can we enhance its heuristic value? What kind of
history does the study of pottery reveal to us? Examples of informative approaches will be
presented, extending from prehistory to the present to offer a longue durée perspective. This
session will be a joint initiative of the Société Préhistorique Française and the Prehistoric
Society.
19th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists
4 - 8 septembre 2013
Pilsen (République tchèque)
http://www.eaa2013.cz/programme/academic-programme/list-of-sessions-round-tables/#a
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
When the potters make the story of Sai Island (Upper Nubia, Sudan) from 7000 BC to 2600
BC. Elena Garcea (University of Cassino and Southern Latium, Italy)
Raw material management in the earliest manufacture of ceramics in the river basin of the
Mediterranean: initial results and considerations relating to a broader evaluation. Xavier
Clop García (University Autónoma of Barcelona, Spain)
The adoption of pottery in south-eastern Europe: social or economic factors? Julien Vieugue
(Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, France & University of Thessaloniki, Greece),
Kostas Kotsakis (University of Thessaloniki, Greece), Laure Salanova (CNRS, France) and
Giorgos Toufexis (Archaeological Museum of Larissa, Greece)
Pottery as a memory item at Catalhöyük. E. Nurcan Yalman (Istanbul University, Turkey)
Bull symbolism on Neolithic pottery in Anatolia. Necmi Karul (Istanbul University, Turkey)
New advances in west Mediterranean Early Neolithic pottery sourcing and technology.
Didier Binder (CNRS, France), Marzia Gabriele (Università di Pisa, Italy), Jean-Marc
Lardeaux (Université de Nice, France) and Chrystèle Vérati (Université de Nice, France)
Cultural and chronological features of Early Neolithic pottery in the settlements of south-east
Albania. Edlira Andoni (Center of Albanian Studies, Albania)
Ceramic production during the emergence of the first Neolithic in Central Europe: a
technological approach to early Neolithic pottery assemblages in Hungary (first half of the
6th millennium). Louise Gomart (Fondation Fyssen, France & ELTE Institute of
Archaeological Sciences, Hungary) and Pál Raczky (ELTE Institute of Archaeological
Sciences, Hungary)
The earliest ceramic traditions of Eastern Europe: technology, morphology and decoration.
Andrey Mazurkevich (The State Hermitage Museum, Russian Federation) and Ekaterina
Dolbunova (The State Hermitage Museum, Russian Federation)
Meeting the first potters of Britain and Ireland: Carinated Bowls as elements of identity?
Hélène Pioffet (Université de Rennes 1, France & Durham Universities, UK), Luc Laporte
(CNRS, France) and Chris Scarre (Durham University, United Kingdom)
Relationships between Tuscany and Provence during the Chassey period: insights from
pottery. Cédric Lepère (CNRS, France)
Lessons learned about the makers of Early to Middle Neolithic ‘Peterborough Ware’ in
England and Wales, from applying a French technological perspective to studying the châine
opératoire. Vincent Ard (ATER Université Toulouse 2 - Le Mirail , France)
19th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists
4 - 8 septembre 2013
Pilsen (République tchèque)
http://www.eaa2013.cz/programme/academic-programme/list-of-sessions-round-tables/#a
Getting pots to write their autobiographies of use: the analysis of organic residues. Lucy
Cramp (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
Contact, coexistence, co-action: first thoughts about interaction as reflected by the ceramic
material from Polgár-Csőszhalom, Hungary. Katalin Sebők (Eötvös Loránd
University/Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Hungary) and Márton Szilágyi (Eötvös Loránd
University/Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Hungary)
In the heat of kilns: assessing the technology of Iberian potters at the end of the Iron Age.
Nicolas Frèrebeau (University of Bordeaux 3, France), Alexis Gorgues (University of
Bordeaux 3, France), José Antonio Benavente Serrano (Consorcio Patrimonio Ibérico de
Aragón, Spain) and Charlotte Sacilotto (University of Bordeaux 3, France)
Pottery telling: From the mind of the potter to the people who used it. Maria Giuseppina
Gradoli (University of Leicester (UK), Italy)
New stories about a Middle Bronze Age pile of sherds in Eastern Romania. Neculai Bolohan
(Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Romania)
Same people, changing fashions: negotiating identities in NE Aegean. Peter Pavúk (Charles
University, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic), Luca Girella (Università Telematica
Internazionale Uninettuno, Italy) and Miloš Gregor (Slovak National Museum, Slovak
Republic)
Tradition and innovation: analysis of Early Iron Age ceramics in the Carpathian Basin.
Szabolcs Czifra (Hungarian National Museum, Hungary), Attila Kreiter (Hungarian National
Museum, Hungary) and Péter Pánczél (Hungarian National Museum, Hungary)
Mixed-Style pottery in Western Sicily: a multicultural response to social entanglement.
William Balco (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, United States)
Bowls as document: a consideration of Coba bowls, serial production and personal
consumption in proto-historic Northern Mesopotamia Johnny Samuele Baldi (Institut
Français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo) & Maison de l'Archéologie et de l'Ethnologie René
Ginouvès, France)
Prussian pottery traditions in the Early Middle Ages. Malgorzata Karczewska (University of
Bialystok, Poland)
19th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists
4 - 8 septembre 2013
Pilsen (République tchèque)
http://www.eaa2013.cz/programme/academic-programme/list-of-sessions-round-tables/#a
POSTERS
New insights from a combination of typological, technological and radiocarbon analysis of
Neolithic ceramics in the Volga-Kama region. Aleksander Vybornov (Samara State Academy
of Social Sciences and Humanities, Russian Federation)
Decorated pottery in the study of La Tène art – methodological insights and interpretative
proposals. Gadea Cabanillas de la Torre (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid / Ecole Normale
Supérieure, France)
The Story of a Sherd: types of information revealed by Eneolithic pottery from Sultana-Malu
Roșu. Theodor Ignat (Museum of Bucharest, Romania), Vasile Opris (National History
Museum of Romania, Romania) and Catalin Lazar (National History Museum of Romania,
Romania)
Comprehensive analysis of the Early Metal Age pottery from the Kola Peninsula: preliminary
results. Anton Murashkin (Saint-Petersburg State University, Russian Federation)
Analyzing the connections between Roman pottery and erotic art. Cyril Dumas (Musée des
Baux, France)
Employing a chaîne opératoire approach to the distribution of Early Bronze Age 'Bowl
tradition pottery'. Ros O Maolduin (NUI Galway, Ireland)