Project quick links
- Early pottery function in NE Siberia investigated through organic residue analysis (2020-ongoing)
- TRADITION: Long-Term Coastal Adaptation, Food Security and Poverty Alleviation in Latin America (2019-2023)
- Exploring pottery use across the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Northern Europe (2017-2020)
- The Innovation, Dispersal and Use of Ceramics in NE Europe (2016-ongoing)
- Regional variation in the use of early pottery in Northwest Europe (2016-2019)
- The aquatic Neolithic of the Northern European Boreal Forest (2016-2019)
- The diet of the first farmers in Lithuania, 3200‐2400 cal BC: Biochemical investigation of food residues from ancient pottery (2016-2018)
- The adoption of pottery into the New World Arctic (2015-2019)
- First Ceramics of Atlantic Europe: Manufacture and Function (2015-2017)
- The innovation and development of pottery in East Asia (2014-2017)
- Early pottery use and subsistence economies of the Narva-stage in Estonia (2014-2016)
- PONTE- POttery iNnovation and Transition in East Asia: bridging expertise across continents (2014-2016)
- Early pottery use in North Eastern North America (2011-2013)
- Late foragers and early farmers of the Baltic (2007-2010)
Projects
2020-ongoing
The use of pottery by the hunter-gatherer cultures of Northeast Asia is a topic of increasing interest. Recent studies have highlighted that early pottery in Japan, the Russian far east, and Alaska was used to process aquatic resources.
2019-2023
TRADITION is an ERC-Consolidator Grant funded research project that will assess the long-term development of small-scale fisheries in South America, and their legacy to present day food security and poverty alleviation.
2017-2020
Abstract
2016-ongoing
A new research project led by the British Museum, University of York and the Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology (ZBSA), Schleswig, Germany will tackle the origins, adoption and use of pottery vessels by hunter-gatherers in NE Europe.
2016-2019
This research project examines the use of pottery dating to the Late Mesolithic Swifterbant culture from an inter-site, regional, and inter-regional perspective.
2016-2019
This PhD research project is one of 15 Marie Curie funded European Joint Doctoral Training awards as a part of the ArchSci2020, network.
2016-2018
Rationale
2015-2019
This PhD research project, led by Marjolein Admiraal of the University of Groningen, is focused on the evolution of the function of pottery and stone bowls in Southwest Alaska during the past 9,000 years.
2015-2017
This project is focused on the study of the role of pottery across the transition to farming in Southern Europe, specifically along the Atlantic coastline. The arrival of farming had important consequences on many aspects of human society, from health to ideology, and this process constitutes a key...
2014-2017
Ceramic cooking vessels represent one of the most significant innovations in human history and had a profound impact on the subsequent development of human culinary behaviour. Some of the world's earliest pottery derived from East Asia. What caused this innovation?
2014-2016
This project focused on the analysis of the earliest ceramics in Estonia, the so-called Narva-type pottery. A total of 12 sites covering different environments and settlement systems were sampled, including islands and inland sites as well as riverine estuaries and coastal regions.
2014-2016
Jōmon and beyond
2011-2013
Pottery production in Northeastern North America initially developed 3000 years ago. This project has demonstrated that the increasing use of pottery in that region was not an adaptive response to increased reliance on specific kinds of wild foodstuffs, as previously thought.
2007-2010
The aim of the ‘Late foragers and early farmers of the Baltic’ project was to investigate the origins, use, dating and social context of Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic pottery.