{"id":159,"date":"2013-10-09T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/?p=159"},"modified":"2013-10-15T21:51:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T21:51:41","slug":"ceramics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/coverage\/global\/ceramics\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceramics"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_160\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-160\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cdn4.sci-news.com\/images\/2012\/07\/image_487_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-160\" alt=\"Model of a four-legged animal, possibly a horse or a deer, left, and an artifact with the finger impressions, highlighted in the white box. From Vela Spila, Croatia. Rebecca Farbstein \/ PLoS ONE. Rights Reserved \" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/files\/2013\/10\/WT_Wk2_CeramicFigure_RightsReserved-300x154.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/files\/2013\/10\/WT_Wk2_CeramicFigure_RightsReserved-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/files\/2013\/10\/WT_Wk2_CeramicFigure_RightsReserved.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Model of a four-legged animal, possibly a horse or a deer, left, and an artefact with the finger impressions, highlighted in the white box. From Vela Spila, Croatia.<br \/>Rebecca Farbstein \/ PLoS ONE. Rights Reserved<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A small ceramic figurine depicting a zoomorph was excavated in 2001 from Vela Spila, Croatia. Archaeologists typically associate the origins of ceramic technology with the first pots and vessels made by early sedentary, agricultural societies. However, this figurine was excavated from a horizon with typical late Upper Palaeolithic material culture, radiocarbon dated to c. 15,000 BP. This artefact allows analysis of the origins of ceramic, which appear to have been artistic rather than \u201cutilitarian.\u201d Moreover, it relates to broader issues of innovation, contact and continuity across social and geographic boundaries, and the impact of new materials on artistic expression.<\/p>\n<h2>Reading<\/h2>\n<p>Farbstein, R., D. Radic, D. Brajkovic, &amp; P. T. Miracle, 2012. First Epigravettian ceramic figurines from Europe (Vela Spila, Croatia). <i>PLoSONE<\/i>7(7): e41437. Doi: <a href=\"http:\/\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0041437\" target=\"_blank\">10.1371\/journal.pone.0041437\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vandiver, P., O. Soffer, B. Klima, &amp; J. Svoboda, 1989. The origins of ceramic technology at Dolni Vestonice, Czechoslovakia, <i>Science <\/i><b>246<\/b>(4933): 1002-1008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small ceramic figurine depicting a zoomorph was excavated in 2001 from Vela Spila, Croatia. Archaeologists typically associate the origins of ceramic technology with the first pots and vessels made by early sedentary, agricultural societies. However, this figurine was excavated from a horizon with typical late Upper Palaeolithic material culture, radiocarbon dated to c. 15,000 BP. This artefact allows analysis &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93695,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[529189,536885,537273,146326,537063,544559,543581,553501,527739],"tags":[554497,553802,553700,428648,155523,554816,548618,554067,554630,160,553921,554258,554955],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11000-3000-years-ago","category-farming","category-female-labour","category-global","category-keeping","category-lecture-4","category-object","category-rebecca-farbstein","category-taming-nature-and-laying-foundations","tag-agricultural","tag-artistic","tag-ceramic","tag-croatia","tag-figure","tag-material-culture","tag-palaeolithic","tag-pots","tag-sedentary","tag-technology","tag-utilitarian","tag-vessels","tag-zoomorph","column","threecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93695"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}