WORKSHOP ANR CERASTONE : « Économic or social factors? The emergence of pottery in the Southern Levant » (18 novembre 2021)
The reason(s) why the Neolithic populations of the Southern Levant start to use pottery remain unclear. In the 1990s, some specialists invoked social factors to explain the emergence of pottery in this region insofar as the earliest ceramic vessels would have been mainly used as prestige goods. Others have argued for economic factors because the first fired-clay [...]