Manufacturing traces and pot-forming processes during the Early Neolithic at Cueva de El Toro (Málaga, Spain, 5280-4780 BCE)
Cámara Manzaneda, Javier (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Prehistòria)
Clop i Garcia, Xavier (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Prehistòria)
García Rosselló, Jaume (Universitat de les Illes Balears. Departament de Ciències Històriques i Teoria de les Arts)
Camalich Massieu, María Dolores (Universidad de La Laguna. Departamento de Geografía e Historia)
Martín-Socas, Dimas (Universidad de La Laguna. Departamento de Geografía e Historia)

Data:	2021
Resum:	This paper reports the results of forming processes used in pottery manufacture at La Cueva de El Toro (Málaga, Spain) during the Early Neolithic (5280-4780 cal. BCE). La Cueva de El Toro is one of the most important sites of reference on the southern Iberian Peninsula for providing extensive and systematised data on early farming practices. The identification of manufacturing traces on pottery has enabled the assessment of the variability of forming techniques used by the communities of herders that seasonally inhabited the cave during the Early Neolithic. Forming processes were also compared with characteristic features of pottery products (typology, decorations) that are representative of the first pottery production in this area. Furthermore, this study provides new insights into the distribution of the first pot-forming processes in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, which suggest the use of similar techniques to the forming-sequences documented at other Early Neolithic sites (the use of coils and circular patches) and other forming processes (moulding process and the use of discs) which are still unknown in the Western Mediterranean.
Ajuts:	Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017/SGR-1302) Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad HAR2017-88304-P Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad HAR2016-78197-P
Nota:	Altres ajuts: acords transformatius de la UAB
Nota:	Javier Cámara is a predoctoral researcher with a FI-DGR 2017 grant (No.: 00567) funded by Generalitat de Catalunya. The authors wish to thank Dr. L. Gomart (CNRS, UMR 8215 Trajectoires) for her helpful comments and observations to identify the new technologies discovered in the ongoing researches on prehistoric pottery. The authors also wish to thank the comments and criticisms made by anonymous reviewers, which improved the earliest version of the paper.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Pottery forming processes ; Ceramic technology ; Manufacturing traces ; Early Neolithic ; Andalusia ; Iberian Peninsula
Publicat a:	Journal of archaeological science: reports, Vol. 37 (june 2021) , p. 102936, ISSN 2352-4103

DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.102936

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