Walter Cruells - Painting Pots, Painting People: Late Neolithic Ceramics in Ancient Mesopotamia

PAINTING POTS PAINTING PEOPLE

L ATE N EOLITHIC C ERAMICS IN A NCIENT M ESOPOTAMIA

edited by

WALTER CRUELLS, INNA MATEICIUCOV AND OLIVIER NIEUWENHUYSE

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Front cover: Late Neolithic vessel from Tell Arbid Abyad, Syria. Photographs courtesy Dalibor Viansk and Archive of Centre of Prehistoric Archaeology of the Near East, Masaryk University, Brno.

Cover design: Inna Mateiciucov and Maximilian Wilding.

Becker, Joerg

Seminar for Oriental Archaeology and Art History, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Halle, Germany.

Beuger, Claudia

Institute for Ancient Studies, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany.

Breniquet, Catherine

EA 1001-CHEC/Universit Blaise-Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Charvt, Petr

Department of Near Eastern Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of West Bohemia, Plze, Czech Republic.

Cruells, Walter

GRAMPO. Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

Czerniak, Lech

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, University of Gdask, Gdask, Poland.

Daverat, Loc

ANTEA Bureau dtudes Archologie, Mulhouse, France.

DAnna, Maria Bianca

Freie Universitt, Berlin, Germany.

Erdalkran, Mucella

Department of Archaeology, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.

Faura, Josep-Miquel

MNAC/GRAMPO , Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

Franz, Ingmar

Institut fr Archologische Wissenschaften, Albrecht-Ludwigs-Universitt Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

Gmez Bach, Anna

GRAMPO. Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

Hole, Frank

Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States.

Hopwood Marie

Department of Anthropology, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, Canada.

Jacob, Simon

Aleppo University, Aleppo, Syria.

Joanidis, Sotiris

Rejvz, Zlat Hory, Czech Republic.

Kubelkov, Hana

Centre of Prehistoric Archaeology of the Near East, Department of Archaeology and Museology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

Kubkov, Barbora

Centre of Prehistoric Archaeology of the Near East, Department of Archaeology and Museology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

Le Mire, Marie

Archorient (UMR 5133 CNRS), Lyon, France.

Levenson-Geitel, Felix

Institut fr Vorderasiatische Archologie, Freie Universitt Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Lpez Snchez, Fernando

University of Oxford, Oxford, The United Kingdom.

Mateiciucov, Inna

Centre of Prehistoric Archaeology of the Near East, Department of Archaeology and Museology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

Mateiciucov, Marie

Boarding house Chata Dolina , Rejvz, Zlat Hory, Czech Republic.

Matouek, Jakub

Department of Archaeology and Museology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

Meakes, Alison

University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.

Mikolciov, Lucia

Centre of Prehistoric Archaeology of the Near East, Department of Archaeology and Museology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

Molist, Miquel

GRAMPO. Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

Navajas, Ana

University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Nieuwenhuyse, Olivier

Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Nilhamn, Bonnie

Department of Cultural Heritage, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.

Odaka, Takahiro

The University Museum, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

zbal, Rana

Ko University, Department of Archaeology and History of Art, Istanbul, Turkey.

zbaaran, Mihriban

Istanbul University, Prehistory Department, Istanbul, Turkey.

Picon, Maurice

Archomtrie et archologie (UMR 5138 CNRS), Lyon, France.

Pyzel, Joanna

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, University of Gdask, Gdask, Poland.

Robert, Beatrice

TRACES, Universit Jean-Jaurs, Toulouse Equipe Prhistoire rcente du Bassin Mditerranen, Toulouse, France.

Sedlkov, Radka

Archeologia Mesopotamica (non-profit organisation), Brno, Czech Republic.

Struhrov, Veronika

Centre of Prehistoric Archaeology of the Near East, Department of Archaeology and Museology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

vidrnoh, Petr

Boarding house Chata Dolina,

Rejvz, Czech Republic.

Tekin, Halil

Department of Archaeology, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.

Tencer, Tom

Department of Archaeology and Museology, Faculty of Art, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

Tkov, Lenka

Centre of Prehistoric Archaeology of the Near East, Department of Archaeology and Museology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

Trvnkov, rka

Department of Archaeology and Museology, Faculty of Art, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

Vanek, Mirko

Czech Geological Survey, Prague, Czech Republic.

Viansk, Dalibor

Department of Geological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

Wilding, Maximilian

Centre of Prehistoric Archaeology of the Near East, Department of Archaeology and Museology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

This book offers a range of perspectives on current research on Neolithic pottery in ancient Mesopotamia. It was produced by members of a working group established during its founding meeting in Brno and Rejvz (Czech Republic) in January 2012. For this first meeting the group adopted the working title Painting Pots Painting People. Participants attending the workshop personally knew each other from previous work, and represented academic institutions from several countries in Europe, the Middle East and Turkey, the United States and Japan (). They habitually met in the field, at regular conferences such as the ICAANE or the EAA, and at more specialized workshops such as: Interpreting the Late Neolithic of Upper Mesopotamia (Nieuwenhuyse et al . 2013), Beyond the Ubaid (Carter and Phillip 2010) or The Emergence of Pottery in Western Asia (Tsuneki et al . 2017). Notwithstanding this frequent interaction, the group felt that there was a need for a platform for specialists working on Neolithic ceramics from the Middle East to come together to exchange information and emerging insights, and to discuss key issues regarding technology, terminology, classification, function and interpretation.