Tracing the provenance of the earliest pottery with Sr and Nd isotopes
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F22%3A00129228" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/22:00129228 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14210/22:00129230
Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Tracing the provenance of the earliest pottery with Sr and Nd isotopes
Original language description
The essential components needed for creating a ceramic vessel are clay, water, and temper. Based on ethnographic studies, clay and temper sources are usually located no more than 20-100 minutes of walking distance from the site of creation, but was this the case in Prehistory? Our preliminary results within the NEOPOT project have shown that the first pottery in the northern parts of the Pannonian Basin appeared in the hunter- gatherers' context around 5600 calBC followed by the pottery of the first farmers around 5500 calBC. However, the pottery from both traditions sharply differs in terms of production technology. The origin of the pottery is usually studied through the traditional approach, evaluating the vessel shape, decoration, or manufacturing process. This paper will demonstrate a different approach using stable isotope analysis to trace the provenance of the earliest pottery in Slovakia. Several studies have shown a successful application of 87Sr/86Sr in solving problems of the provenance of various archaeological materials. Our approach is multiproxy, using radiogenic isotopes of strontium (87Sr/86Sr) and neodymium (143Nd/144Nd). The combination of two isotope systems enables us to pinpoint more precisely the origin of the earliest pottery and shed new light on the social networks during the process of Neolithisation. The work is supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic under contract No. GA20-19542S (Tracing the Neolithic transition through the first pottery; NEOPOT project).
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
O - Miscellaneous
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60102 - Archaeology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA20-19542S" target="_blank" >GA20-19542S: Tracing the Neolithic transition through the first pottery</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů