Modelling the diffusion of pottery technologies across Afro-Eurasia: Emerging insights and future research

Antiquity

Volumn 90, Issue 351, 2016, Pages 590-603

  Jordan, Peter ^a   Gibbs, Kevin ^b   Hommel, Peter ^c   Piezonka, Henny ^d   Silva, Fabio ^e   Steele, James ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d GERMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

agriculture; diffusion; hunter gatherers; Neolithic transition; pottery; radiocarbon dating; statistical model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983349826     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2016.68     Document Type: Article

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