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Earliest Pottery on New Guinea Mainland Reveals Austronesian Influences in Highland Environments 3000 Years Ago

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
Austronesian speaking peoples left Southeast Asia and entered the Western Pacific c.4000-3000 years ago, continuing on to colonise Remote Oceania for the first time, where they became the ancestral populations of Polynesians.
Dylan Gaffney   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Towards a New Reference Dataset for Northwest Arabian Pottery: A Preliminary Characterization of the Fabrics, Techniques, Shapes and Decoration of the Pre‐Islamic Pottery From Dadan (Third Millennium bce–Early First Millennium ce)

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The site of Dadan, in the al‐ʿUlā valley, is one of the major and longest‐settled ancient oasis settlements in northwest Arabia. As part of the Saudi‐French Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/RCU/AFALULA), a study of its pre‐Islamic ceramic assemblage has been underway since 2020.
Shadi Shabo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pottery Making in the First Oases: Comparison Between Bat and Bisya Domestic and Tower Assemblages

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The earliest known significant pottery production in Oman appears in the first oases of the Hajar mountains southern foothills during the Umm an‐Nar period (ca. 2700–2000 bc) of the third millennium bc. Despite the history of ceramic research in southeast Arabia, the modalities of the establishment and organisation of this craft are little ...
Jennifer Swerida, Mathilde Jean
wiley   +1 more source

Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE

open access: yesAsia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
wiley   +1 more source

Pottery and non-sedentary communities: origins, technology and usage

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2021
The introduction of the skill of pottery-making has been recognized as the turning point in the human past from the very inception of the disciplines of archaeology/anthropology.
Jasna Vuković
doaj  

The Excavation of a Monastic Fishing Establishment at Oldstead Grange, North Yorkshire

open access: yesInternet Archaeology, 1999
Excavations directed by the writer in 1982-3 for the University of York Archaeological Society uncovered the foundations of a small structure on the shores of a fishpond that belonged to Byland Abbey in the 14th century.
Richard Kemp (with a pottery report by Wendy Sherlock)
doaj   +1 more source

Pottery of Ancient Egypt [PDF]

open access: yesArchaeological Journal, 1883
The Archaeological Journal, 40, 269 ...
openaire   +2 more sources

‘Missing persons’: Ancient legacies of human–environment interaction in tropical natural properties inscribed under the 1972 World Heritage Convention

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Cultural and natural values form the core of World Heritage designation. Properties displaying both values, however, comprise a fraction of inscriptions (currently c. 3%) to the World Heritage List. In 1992, when that fraction stood at c. 5%, adoption of the popular ‘cultural landscapes’ category of cultural heritage in 1992 was therefore ...
Ryan J. Rabett
wiley   +1 more source

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