The origins of pottery technology and its connection with house-building technology in the Zagros Mountains (Western Asia)

IF 0.9 2区历史学 0 ARCHAEOLOGY

Archaeological Research in Asia Pub Date : 2025-01-15 DOI:10.1016/j.ara.2024.100588

Natalia Petrova , Anna Babenko , Hojjat Darabi , Tobias Richter

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Abstract

The earliest finds of clay vessels fragments in Western Asia date back to the end of the 10th millennium BCEE. They have already been present at the site Ganj Dareh in the Central Zagros no later than the end of 9th millennium BCEE. The purpose of our research is to look for possible specific ways that led to the emergence of pottery technology in the Central Zagros region. For this, we carried out technological and spherulite analyzes on clay vessels and building fragments from Ganj Dareh. Our research suggests that there is a strong similarity between the methods used to produce the earliest pottery and those used in the construction of buildings in the Zagros region (and probably Western Asia as whole). Our analysis also confirmed the presence of dung in both the pottery paste of clay vessels and clay elements used in construction activities. This provides further evidence for the early onset of animal herding in this region (Zeder and Hesse, 2000; Daly et al., 2021), as well as evidence for the effective use a wide range of products related to the exploitation of animals. In general, the origin of pottery is undoubtedly a local invention and is associated with a wide range of different skills that the population of Western Asia possessed in previous periods (domestication of animals and plants, technologies associated with the construction of dwellings and economic structures, and technologies for the use of fire).

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西亚扎格罗斯山脉陶器技术的起源及其与房屋建造技术的联系

最早在西亚发现的粘土器皿碎片可以追溯到公元前10世纪末。不迟于公元前9世纪末，他们已经出现在中央扎格罗斯的Ganj Dareh遗址。我们研究的目的是寻找可能导致中扎格罗斯地区陶器技术出现的具体途径。为此，我们对甘吉达的粘土容器和建筑碎片进行了工艺分析和球晶分析。我们的研究表明，生产最早陶器的方法与扎格罗斯地区（可能还有整个西亚）建筑中使用的方法有很强的相似性。我们的分析还证实，粘土容器的陶器糊和建筑活动中使用的粘土元素中都存在粪便。这为该地区动物放牧的早期开始提供了进一步的证据(Zeder和Hesse, 2000；Daly等人，2021)，以及有效利用与动物剥削有关的各种产品的证据。总的来说，陶器的起源无疑是当地的发明，并与西亚人在以前时期所拥有的各种不同技能（动物和植物的驯化，与建造住宅和经济结构有关的技术，以及使用火的技术）有关。

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Archaeological Research in Asia ARCHAEOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Archaeological Research in Asia presents high quality scholarly research conducted in between the Bosporus and the Pacific on a broad range of archaeological subjects of importance to audiences across Asia and around the world. The journal covers the traditional components of archaeology: placing events and patterns in time and space; analysis of past lifeways; and explanations for cultural processes and change. To this end, the publication will highlight theoretical and methodological advances in studying the past, present new data, and detail patterns that reshape our understanding of it. Archaeological Research in Asia publishes work on the full temporal range of archaeological inquiry from the earliest human presence in Asia with a special emphasis on time periods under-represented in other venues. Journal contributions are of three kinds: articles, case reports and short communications. Full length articles should present synthetic treatments, novel analyses, or theoretical approaches to unresolved issues. Case reports present basic data on subjects that are of broad interest because they represent key sites, sequences, and subjects that figure prominently, or should figure prominently, in how scholars both inside and outside Asia understand the archaeology of cultural and biological change through time. Short communications present new findings (e.g., radiocarbon dates) that are important to the extent that they reaffirm or change the way scholars in Asia and around the world think about Asian cultural or biological history.