Rocks and clay: Potters’ technological choices within the cultural dynamics of Bronze Age Kazakhstan

PLoS ONE, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 20(4), P. e0320140 - e0320140

Published: April 23, 2025

Through regular interactions with their neighbors, diverse groups inhabiting areas along the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor during Bronze Age formed dynamic interregional networks that saw proliferation and persistence of shared material cultures over vast geographic areas. In this paper we advocate for ceramics analyses combine both macro- micro-scale technological studies alongside those style, in order not to lose sight actual people who drove defining transformations Age. We present a petrographic study pottery from Zhetysu region, southeastern Kazakhstan, examine diachronic traditions special focus on routines selection raw processing. Our results demonstrate site-specific potting technologies as well traits transcend time space across episodes high genetic turnover human population.

Language: Английский

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The new chronology and material culture of a second millennium BC neolithic site in the heartland of the Tibetan Plateau: Qugong re-excavated

Archaeological Research in Asia, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 40, P. 100569 - 100569

Published: Nov. 1, 2024

Language: Английский

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Technological choices and practices of Early Bronze Age pottery production in the Central Plains: Focusing on the sites of Xinzhai and Huadizui

Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 59, P. 104803 - 104803

Published: Oct. 10, 2024

Language: Английский

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