Keeping an eye on your pots: the provenance of Neolithic ceramics from the Cave of the Cyclops,Youra, Greece |
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| Authors: | Patrick Quinn Peter Day Vassilis Kilikoglou Edward Faber Stella Katsarou-Tzeveleki Adamantios Sampson |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, Northgate House, West Street, Sheffield, S1 4ET, UK;2. Institute of Materials Science, NCSR ‘Demokritos’, Aghia Paraskevi 153 10, Attiki, Greece;3. Department of Archaeology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK;4. Ministry of Culture, Ephorate of Palaeoanthropology-Spelaeology, 36 Ardettou Street, Athens 11636, Greece;5. Department of Mediterranean Studies, University of the Aegean, 1 Dimokratias Avenue, Rhodos 85100, Greece |
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| Abstract: | Combined petrographic and chemical analysis of MN and LN ceramics from the Cave of the Cyclops on the island of Youra, Greece, has revealed a compositionally diverse assemblage with a range of different local and off-island sources. Ceramics deposited in Neolithic times on this barren, rocky outpost of the Sporades chain may have originated from a surprising number of possible origins, including from the Plain of Thessaly, Euboea and the volcanic northeast Aegean islands. This picture challenges traditional assumptions about Neolithic pottery production and indicates that significant movement of ceramics was already taking place within the northern Aegean as early as the beginning of the sixth millennium BC. The discovery of a persistent local pottery tradition, that is also found on the neighbouring island of Kyra-Panagia, indicates significant continuity in ceramic technology over some 1500 years. |
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| Keywords: | Neolithic Greece Aegean Ceramics Distribution Thin section petrography Geochemistry |
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