The Early Pottery Research Group (EPRG) is an international team researching the reasons for the innovation and dispersal of ceramic container technology in prehistory using biomolecular science.
Current projects
Recent publications
Taché, K., Jaffe, Y., Craig, O.E., Lucquin, A., Zhou, J., Wang, H., Jiang, S., Standall, E., and Flad, R.K. (2021). What do 'barbarians' eat? Integrating ceramic use-wear and residue analysis in the study of food and society at the margins of Bronze Age China. PLoS One, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0250819
Breu, A., Gómez-Bach, A., Heron, C., Rosell-Melé, A. and Molist, M. (2021). Variation in pottery use across the Early Neolithic in the Barcelona plain. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 13(3), p.53. DOI:10.1007/s12520-021-01296-2
Drieu, L., Orecchioni, P., Capelli, C., Meo, A., Lundy, J., Sacco, V., Arcifa, L., Molinari, A., Carver, M. and Craig, O. E. (2021). Chemical evidence for the persistence of wine production and trade in Early Medieval Islamic Sicily. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(10): e2017983118. DOI:10.1073/pnas.2017983118