Technology and Use of Neolithic Pottery from North Macedonia

北马其顿新石器时代陶器的技术与使用

• 批准号: EP/Y025113/1
• 负责人: Penny Bickle
• 金额: $ 25.55万
• 依托单位: University of York
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY025113%2F1
• 关键词: Technology; Use; Neolithic; Pottery; North

The Early Neolithic (EN) is a pivotal point in human history when mobile hunter-gather groups broadly transitioned to agriculturally based sedentary lifestyles, with aDNA and domesticate evidence indicating a relationship between, and movement of, Anatolian and European farming communities. A significant part of this was the widespread adoption and production of ceramic containers, which offer an important data source to examine development of new agricultural practices, such as dairying, the development of technical practices, and the creation of functional pottery classes related to different foodways such as cooking. Based at the University of York, TECUS will be the first interdisciplinary project utilising archaeological, experimental and lab-based methods to holistically investigate the production and use of EN pottery (6200-5500BC) from North Macedonia. This is a key area that lies within southern and northern routes of Neolithisation, connecting pioneer zones in Western Anatolia, to the Mediterranean and central Europe. However unlike neighbouring regions, EN ceramics from North Macedonia have not been subject to detailed material analyses using an integrated programme of lab-based methods, and as such, there are many open questions about the distribution and spread of technological knowledge, the raw material resources used by Neolithic potters in different landscapes, the ways in which ceramics containers were used, and the development of characteristic pottery styles in relation to current ideas of cultural identity and geographical boundaries. The unique combination of methods used in TECUS that include thin section petrography, scanning electron microscopy, organic residue, mechanical properties testing and use wear analysis will produce high quality multi facetted data to investigate how ceramic production and consumption relates to the daily activities, identity, and the dispersal of agricultural communities. The data will be used to contextualise the place of North Macedonia within broader narratives about the transition to Neolithic ways of living, and the technical and functional development of different pottery types.

新石器时代早期（EN）是人类历史上的一个关键点，当时流动的狩猎采集群体广泛过渡到以农业为基础的定居生活方式，DNA和驯化证据表明安纳托利亚和欧洲农业社区之间的关系和运动。其中一个重要部分是陶瓷容器的广泛采用和生产，它为研究新农业实践的发展（例如乳制品生产）、技术实践的发展以及与不同饮食方式相关的功能性陶器类别的创建提供了重要的数据源比如做饭。 TECUS 位于约克大学，是第一个利用考古、实验和实验室方法全面研究北马其顿 EN 陶器（公元前 6200-5500 年）生产和使用的跨学科项目。这是位于新石器化南部和北部路线上的一个关键区域，连接着安纳托利亚西部的先驱区与地中海和中欧。然而，与邻近地区不同的是，北马其顿的 EN 陶瓷并未使用基于实验室方法的综合程序进行详细的材料分析，因此，关于技术知识的分布和传播、原材料资源等存在许多悬而未决的问题。新石器时代陶艺家在不同景观中使用的陶瓷容器的使用方式，以及与当前文化认同和地理边界观念相关的特色陶器风格的发展。 TECUS 中使用的方法的独特组合包括薄片岩相学、扫描电子显微镜、有机残留物、机械性能测试和使用磨损分析，将产生高质量的多方面数据，以研究陶瓷生产和消费与日常活动、身份、以及农业社区的分散。这些数据将用于在有关向新石器时代生活方式的过渡以及不同陶器类型的技术和功能发展的更广泛叙述中将北马其顿的位置背景化。