Western Mediterranean Impressed Wares (6th millennium BCE): new data, approaches and challenges

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The session organised by the Société préhistorique française, from 18 to 20 March 2019 in the premises of the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société Sud-Est in Nice, had as its main objective to bring together the actors of the " Western Mediterranean Impressed Wares " project, supported from 2015 to 2019 by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche, in order to report on and discuss its main results. The transdisciplinary approaches implemented in this context made it possible to develop new protocols and open up new methodological avenues for the study of the ceramic document, to contribute to a redefinition of chronological and cultural frameworks, and thus to nourish, and sometimes reorient, the issues relating to the social practices at work during the Neolithic transition in the Central and North-Western Mediterranean during the first half of the 6th millennium BCE. By using methods borrowed from different scientific fields, some of which are still not widely used in prehistoric archaeology, the authors of this book also wish to contribute to a change in the regime of evidence for the study of material cultures and ancient materials. By sharing the datasets acquired during this programme, they also demonstrate their commitment to Open Science.

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