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- 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)
odemirci@palaeome.org
Özge Demirci
Groningen Institute of Archaeology, Arctic Centre - University of Groningen, Netherlands
ArchSci2020(ESR12): Regional variation in the use of the earliest pottery in Northwestern Europe
This research examines the different early ceramic traditions and the possible functional variation of pottery in the Swifterbant culture in intersite, regional, and interregional scale. Swifterbant culture is a Late Mesolithic-Early Neolithic (5000-2500 BC) hunter-gatherer-fisher society, located in the Netherlands and northern Germany (Lower Saxony), in the NW Europe.