COLOMBO , Marta

The analysis of decorative pottery styles is one of the pillars on which scenarios for the diffusion of the agropastoral eco-nomy in the Western Mediterranean are based. In the history of research, Luigi Bernabò Brea's pioneering work has, since the 1950s,highlighted impressed decorations as the signature of a cultural unity of the first...

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The series of actions carried out by the first farmers during the manufacturing of their pottery, an essential part of their economic package, can act as a powerful proxy of their spatial and temporal trajectories. This proxy is based on the demonstration in social anthropology of an unequivocal link between the chaîne opératoire of a ceramic...

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