Prehistoric Pottery of the ancient Near East
Department Archaeology of the ancient Near East
Masaryk University, Brno, Tsjech Republic
Background Reading
Monday 18 – Introduction & History Pottery Studies
Orton, C, P. Tyers & Vince, A.
1993 “History of Pottery Studies”, in: C. Orton, P. Tyers, and A, Vince, Pottery in
Archaeology, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 3–22.
Wednesday 20 – First pottery in the Near East
Nieuwenhuyse, O.P., Akkermans, P.M.M.G. & Van der Plicht, J.
2010 “Not so coarse, nor always plain – the earliest pottery of Syria”, Antiquity 84: 71-85
Nieuwenhuyse, O.P.
2009 “The Late Neolithic ceramics from Shir: a first assessment”, Zeitschrift für Orient
Archäeologie 2: 310-356.
Hayden, B.
1995 “The emergence of prestige technologies and pottery”, in: Barnett, W. K. and Hoopes,
J.W. (eds.), The Emergence of Pottery: Technology and Innovation in Ancient
Societies (The Emergence of Pottery. Technology and Innovation in Ancient Societies,
Washington, Smithsonian: 257-265.
Nishiaki, Y. & LeMiere, M.
2005 “The oldest Pottery Neolithic of Upper Mesopotamia: new evidence from Tell Seker-alAheimar,
the Khabur, northeast Syria”, Paléorient 31/2: 55-68.
Thursday 21 – Pottery becomes firmly established
Akkermans, P.M.M.G., Cappers, R., Cavallo, C., Nieuwenhuyse, O.P., Nilhamn, B., & Otte, I.
2006 “Investigating the Early Pottery Neolithic of northern Syria: new evidence from Tell
Sabi Abyad”, American Journal of Archaeology 110-1: 123-156.
Nieuwenhuyse, O.P. & Dooijes, R.
2008 “A new life for old pots. Early pottery repairs from 7th
millennium Tell Sabi Abyad
(northern Syria), Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies 24: 159-170.
Tuesday 26 – Painted pottery
Nieuwenhuyse, O.P.
2008 “Feasting in the steppe: Late Neolithic ceramic change and the rise of the Halaf”, in:
Córdoba, J., Molist, M., Carmen Pérez, M., Rubio, I. & Martinez, S. (eds.), Proceedings
of the Fifth International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East,
Madrid, UAM: 691-708.
Bernbeck, R.
2008 “Taming time and timing the tame”, in: Córdoba, J., Molist, M., Carmen Pérez, M.,
Rubio, I. & Martinez, S. (eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress on the
Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Madrid, UAM: 709-728.
Wednesday 27 – Organization
Nieuwenhuyse, O.P.
2010 “A household affair? Pottery production in the Burnt Village at Late Neolithic Tell Sabi
Abyad”, in: Bolger, D. & Maguire, L. (eds.), The Development of Pre-state Communities
in the Ancient Near East: Studies in Honour of Edgar Peltenburg, Oxford, Oxbow: 97-
105.
Van der Leeuw S.E., Spruijt A.J. and Shelton-Bunn V.A.
1987 “Ceramic production Assendelver polders”, in: Brandt R.W., Groenman-van
Waateringe W. and Van der Leeuw S.E. (eds.), Assendelver Polder Papers 1,
Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam Press: 225-352.
Peacock, D.P.S.
1982 Pottery in the Roman World. An Ethnographic Approach, London, Longman.
Thursday 28 – Styles
Garfinkel, Y.
1998 "Dancing and the Beginning of Art Scenes in the Near East and South-East Europe”,
Cambridge Archaeological Journal 8: 207-237
Watson, P.J. & LeBlanc, S. A.
1973 “A comparative statistical analysis of painted pottery from seven Halafian sites”,
Paléorient 1-1: 117-133.
Yoffee, N.
1993 “Mesopotamian Interaction spehers”, in: Yoffee, N. And Clarke, J.J. (eds.), Early
Stages in the Evolution of Mesopotamian Civilization. Soviet Excavations in Northern
Iraq, Tuscon, University of Arizona Press.
Campbell, S.
2010 “Understanding Symbols: putting meaning into painted pottery”, in: Bolger, D. &
Maguire, L. (eds.), The Development of Pre-state Communities in the Ancient Near East:
Studies in Honour of Edgar Peltenburg, Oxford, Oxbow: 144-152.
Friday 29 – Surveys and settlement & Pottery repairs
Nieuwenhuyse, O.P. and Wilkinson, T.J.W.
2007 “Late Neolithic settlement in the area of Tell Beydar, (NE Syria)”, in: Lebeau, M. &
Suleiman, A. (eds.), Beydar Studies I, Turnhout, Brepols (SUBARTU XXI): 268-303.
Dooijes, R. & Nieuwenhuyse, O.P.
2007 “Ancient repairs: techniques and social meaning”, in: Benz, M. & Kästner, U. (eds.),
Konservieren oder restaurieren, die Restaurierung griechischer Vasen von der Antike
bis heute, Munich, Beck Publishers: 17-22.
Dooijes, R. & Nieuwenhuyse, O.P.
2009 “Ancient repairs in archaeological research; a Near Eastern perspective”, in: Ambers,
J., Higgit, C., Harrison, L. & Saunders, D. (eds.), Holding it all together, London,
Archetype: 8-12.