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This series, Archaeology of the North, will include new and groundbreaking work on the archaeology of the polar region. Works to be included in the series will be synthetic studies that should have an international audience, examining the development of social organization and economies, technological achievements, such as pottery and metallurgy, plant and animal domestication, and large-scale specialized hunting methods necessary for whaling and deep-water fishing, among other topics.

  • General Editors: Peter Jordan, Arctic Centre, University of Groningen, Neil Price, University of Aberdeen, Charlotte Damm, University of Tromsø

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Ceramics in Circumpolar Prehistory
  • Technology, Lifeways and Cuisine
  • Edited by Peter Jordan, Kevin Gibbs
  • Published online:
    19 November 2018
    Print publication:
    07 March 2019
  • Throughout prehistory the Circumpolar World was inhabited by hunter-gatherers. Pottery-making would have been extremely difficult in these cold, northern environments, and the craft should never have been able to disperse into this region. However, archaeologists are now aware that pottery traditions were adopted widely across the Northern World and went on to play a key role in subsistence and social life. This book sheds light on the human motivations that lay behind the adoption of pottery, the challenges that had to be overcome in order to produce it, and the solutions that emerged. Including essays by an international team of scholars, the volume offers a compelling portrait of the role that pottery cooking technologies played in northern lifeways, both in the prehistoric past and in more recent ethnographic times.