Holdridge, Genevieve2016-01-082016-01-082004http://hdl.handle.net/11693/18294Ankara : The Department of Archaeology and History of Art of Bilkent Univ., 2004.Thesis (Master's) -- Bilkent University, 2004.Includes bibliographical references leaves 159-177.The objective of this thesis is to research the invention and innovation of pottery technology in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, in particular the Late and Final PrePottery Neolithic B and Early Pottery Neolithic in the Near East. My approach will involve examining the various factors that are involved with the origins of clay vessel manufacture including: 1) the context of this event like the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B and Early Pottei7 Neolithic Societies; 2) the history of clay vessel manufacture such as the sporadic invention of pottery before its widespread adoption; 3) preceding technology; 4) circulation of goods and cultural and technological change; 5) settlement pattern change and movements of people; 6) domestication of animals and emergence of pastoralism; 7) ethno-archaeological comparisons; 8) ecological conditions; 9) social choice. The origins of pottery technology on a large scale are interrelated to all of these factors, and would not have emerged without all of these circumstances in place.xix, 261 leaves, illustrations, mapsEnglishinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPotteryTechnologyInventionInnovationPPNBEPNNear EastPastoralismDomesticationExchangeSettlement changeClay familiarityPlaster makingPyro-technologyClay vesselsGN799.P6 H65 2004Pottery, Prehistoric--Near East.Neolithic period--Near East.ThesisBILKUTUPB069294