Université de Fribourg

Clay resources and technical choices for neolithic pottery (Chalain, Jura, France): chemical, mineralogical and grain-size analyses

Martineau, R. ; Walter-Simonnet, A.-V. ; Grobéty, Bernard ; Buatier, M.

In: Archaeometry, 2007, vol. 49, no. 1, p. 23–52

Many authors have considered pottery manufacturing constraints and sociocultural elements as factors in change in past civilizations over time. The main issue of this research is to better understand the reasons for changes, or choices, in pottery raw materials. The very precise and detailed stratigraphy and cultural succession of occupations is based on dendrochronological data from the...