Painting pots, painting people late Neolithic ceramics in ancient Mesopotamia / edited by Walter Cruells, Inna Mateiciucová, and Olivier Nieuwenhuyse.

Other author Cruells, Walter.
Other author Mateiciucová, Inna.
Other author Nieuwenhuyse, Olivier.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoOxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2017.
Description224 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Neolithic period--Iraq.
Pottery, Prehistoric--Iraq.
Painted pottery--Iraq.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Iraq.
Iraq--Antiquities.
Iraq--History. --To 634.

Contents Late Neolithic pottery studies in the ancient Near East / Olivier Nieuwenhuyse, Walter Cruells and Inna Mateiciucová -- Transitions and their chronologies in the pottery Neolithic of the Near East / Walter Cruells -- Dark and light colour in early Near Eastern pottery : from technique to decoration / Marie Le Mière, Mihriban Özbasaran and Maurice Picon -- Investigating painted, incised and impressed ware from the late Halaf period / Anna Gómez Bach -- The painted Halaf pottery from Tell Tawila and the Tell Chuera region / Jörg Becker -- The appearance and development of painted ceramics at seventh millennium Tell Halula (Syria) / Josep-Miquel Faura and Miquel Molist -- Analysis of paint on prehistoric pottery from late Neolithic Tell Arbid Abyad (north-eastern Syria) / Dalibor V¿ianský and Inna Mateiciucová -- Late Neolithic pottery at Çatalhöyük East / Lech Czerniak and Joanna Pyzel -- Late Neolithic pottery traditions on the upper Tigris Valley / Halil Tekin -- Pots to be seen / Olivier Nieuwenhuyse -- De l'art ou du cochon? / Béatrice Robert with Loïc Daverat -- Painted pottery and visual representations at Tell Kurdu / Rana Özbal -- Animal motifs on Halaf painted pottery / Mücella Erdalkiran -- What happened in prehistory : can sherds speak? / Petr Charvát -- More than just a pretty face : the meaningful use of painted pottery in the Halaf period / Marie Hopwood -- Decoration of Neolithic pottery in the northern Levant : a view from the Rouj Basin / Takahiro Odaka -- Exploring the data : the pottery of Umm Qseir / Frank Hole -- Was white ware always white? : looking into the world of painted plaster / Bonnie Nilhamn -- Weaving and potting during the late Neolithic period : are there textile patterns on the early painted pottery of Mesopotamia? / Catherine Breniquet.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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LCCN 2016057996
ISBN9781785704390 (hardback)

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