A long-overdue advancement in ceramic studies, this volume sheds new light on the adoption and dispersal of pottery by non-agricultural societies of prehistoric

Throughout prehistory the Circumpolar World was inhabited by hunter-gatherers. Pottery-making would have been extremely difficult in these cold, northern enviro

Predominantly on rice cultivation and pottery in Middle East and East Asian countries.

This work presents the most recent views on a subject of primordial importance for all students of history: the understanding of humankind’s process of becomi

Essays by leading specialists on a central issue of European history: the transition to farming.