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The emergence of pottery in Africa during the tenth millennium cal BC: new evidence from Ounjougou (Mali)

Huysecom, E. ; Rasse, M. ; Lespez, L. ; Neumann, K. ; Fahmy, A. ; Ballouche, A. ; Ozainne, S. ; Maggetti, Marino ; Tribolo, Ch. ; Soriano, S.

In: Antiquity, 2009, vol. 83, no. 322, p. 905-917

New excavations in ravines at Ounjougou in Mali have brought to light a lithic and ceramic assemblage that dates from before 9400 cal BC. The authors show that this first use of pottery coincides with a warm wet period in the Sahara. As in East Asia, where very early ceramics are also known, the pottery and small bifacial arrowheads were the components of a new subsistence strategy exploiting an...

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The Alps - a barrier or a passage for ceramic trade ?

Maggetti, Marino

In: Archaeometry, 2005, vol. 47, no. 2, p. 389-401

The Alps as a barrier: ceramic remnants of the so-called Laugen-Melaun culture (c. 11th to c. sixth centuries bc) can be found in the northern Italy (Trentino/Alto Adige)— eastern Switzerland—Liechtenstein and western Austria region. A petrographic study of 454 sherds from this area covering a time span of 500 years reveals the following. (1) The pottery from the Trentino/Alto Adige...