Containers of change : ancient container technologies from Eastern to Western Asia / edited by Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse, Reinhard Bernbeck, Koen Berghuijs.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Intro -- Preface -- Reinhard Bernbeck, Koen Berghuijs -- The Ultimate Black Box -- An Introduction -- Olivier Nieuwenhuyse † -- Thinking inside the mask -- Clive Gamble -- Containing the flow: �Catalh�oy�uk -- Ian Hodder -- Clay, enamel & plastic. Three ethnographic studies on diversity and innovation in container usage -- Hans Peter Hahn -- Just an everyday story of pots? -- Thinking through the controversies, materialities and interdependencies of initial pottery and organic containers in the East Mediterranean -- Peter Tomkins -- Thinking inside the pot - improving Organic Residue Analysis

Bonnie Nilhamn -- Early pottery in Upper Mesopotamia -- Marie Le Mi�ere -- Imagined inceptions: Of pottery and basketry in the Upper Mesopotamian late Neolithic -- Koen Berghuijs and Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse -- Alternating mediums? -- The introduction of pottery to the southern Levant and its impact on the production of stone vessels: Sha'ar Hagolan as a case study -- Danny Rosenberg and Yosef Garfinkel -- Early pottery in the Southern Levant and beyond -- Kevin Gibbs -- A view from the northern forests: Container technologies of boreal hunter-gatherers -- Henny Piezonka

The affordances of portable containers in early village societies in the Kopet Dag region -- Susan Pollock -- Containers of collective memories -- A biographic-contextual approach to the chlorite vessels of the 10th millennium BCE of northern Mesopotamia -- Marion Benz -- Containers for spirits: symbolic meaning of early pottery and stone vessels discovered in Tell el-Kerkh -- Akira Tsuneki -- Clay containers and mobility in the final stage of Neolithisation: -- Storage bins and the earliest pottery at Tell el-Kerkh, northwest Syria -- Takahiro Odaka

Immovable and movable containers: evidence from the Syrian Euphrates in the mid-8th millennium cal. BCE -- Anna Bach G�omez, Adri�a Breu, Miquel Molist, Walter Cruells -- Lifting the lid on the materiality of containing and retrieving -- Carl Knappett -- Container cultures: A synthesis -- Reinhard Bernbeck -- Contributors -- Blank Page

Across Western Asia, the astonishing increase in the availability of durable ceramic containers in the seventh millennium BCE had significant societal repercussions - so much so that vital social, economic, and symbolic activities became dependent upon the availability of pottery containers. These early ceramic containers, however, established themselves alongside flourishing pre-existing container traditions, with vessels made in a wide range of materials inc.