Early Pottery Technologies Among Foragers in Global Perspective: Cultural Transformations Through Material Practice

本書提供了關於前農業創新在物質實踐、資源強化和新興技術方面的最新觀點，特別是陶器製造。它包含了基於第一手挖掘和實驗室分析的來自世界不同地區的採集者最早陶器生產的原創研究。其廣泛的地理範圍涵蓋北歐和中歐、東亞（中國不同地區）、北非、西非和南非，以及東南北美，包含了之前被忽視的世界部分（非洲不同地區），並延伸至舊世界以外，即北美。它還考慮到陶器在食物生產之前出現的不同年代，這些年代不僅限於晚更新世和早全新世，還延伸至中全新世（例如，在南非）。

本卷提供了一個新穎且尚未探索的全球跨文化和互動討論，關於陶器的出現。通過繪製最新的發現和各種方法論的途徑，它旨在捕捉從更新世末期到早期/中期全新世之間的文化過程中的變異性和共同特徵，其中陶器的生產和使用在狩獵採集者中扮演了重要角色。本書對於理解物質實踐在全球晚期史前文化轉型中的角色，以及對於當地敘事如何反映不同社會身份、意義和/或功能的辯論，提供了根本性的貢獻，這些反映取決於特定的經濟背景、定居系統和文化景觀。它強調了變革性技術如何可能在人的生活和相互互動的方式上創造根本性的變化。最終，本卷包含了對於全球採集者陶器研究未來的寶貴反思和期待。

Giulia D'Ercole is a senior researcher and lecturer (Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany). She has a PhD degree in Prehistory from the University La Sapienza of Rome, Italy and is specialized in African archaeology. Her research interests focus on the study of Nubian and Sudanese cultures and their ceramic traditions from later prehistory until historical times. She is an expert of laboratory methodologies for the characterization, technology of production, and provenance of ceramic materials. She has been working in North Africa since 2006 taking part in numerous international fieldwork projects in both Egypt (Farafra, Elephantine) and Sudan (Sai Island, Amara West, Attab and Ferka region, Jebel Sabaloka). She is interested in the concepts of cultural identity and encounters, as well as in the dynamics of social learning and cultural transmission expressed through material culture among prehistoric societies. She has been a post-doctoral researcher for the ERC Starting Grant Project "Across ancient borders and cultures: An Egyptian microcosm in Sudan during the 2nd millennium BC" (2013-2016) and for the ERC Consolidator Grant Project "Cultural diversity in the Middle Nile Valley. Reconstructing biographies in the periphery of urban centres in northern Sudan during the Bronze Age" (2020-2024).

Elena A.A. Garcea is a Full Professor in Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Cassino and Southern Latium, Italy. She has undertaken fieldwork and coordinated archaeological research in Sudan since 1986, conducted research projects in Libya from 1990 to 2010, and was field director of the Gobero Archaeological Project in Niger in 2005 and 2006. She is the author and editor of nine books and over 260 journal articles and book chapters on African prehistoric archaeology.

Lenka Varadzinová is senior researcher at the Czech Institute of Egyptology (Faculty of Arts, Charles University). She focuses on prehistory of Northeast Africa and more specifically on human-environment interactions, resilience, and adaptations in late Pleistocene and early Holocene Sudan, with attention turned equally to human societies and human individuals with their singular biographies. She is the director of the interdisciplinary research project concerned with prehistoric occupation in Jebel Sabaloka at the Sixth Nile Cataract in central Sudan (since 2009) and participates in the Shaqadud Project focused on late prehistoric adaptations in non-aquatic environments of the Eastern Sahel (since 2020). Since 2006, she has engaged in several surveys in Egypt, Libya, and the Sudan focused on study of rock art in the context of landscape and archaeology.

Ladislav Varadzin is senior researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. He is specialized in prehistory of Northeast Africa and the medieval period in Central Europe. He has directed more than 40 archaeological excavations in the Czech Republic and in Africa. Currently he is the director of the archaeological explorations of prehistoric occupations in Jebel Shaqadud (Eastern Sudan) and of the residence of medieval rulers at Vysehrad (Czech Republic). He takes part in the investigations of prehistoric occupations in Jebel Sabaloka at the Sixth Nile Cataract (Sudan)

Giulia D'Ercole 是德國慕尼黑路德維希-馬克西米利安大學的高級研究員及講師（埃及和蘇丹考古學）。她擁有意大利羅馬拉薩比恩扎大學的史前學博士學位，專注於非洲考古學。她的研究興趣集中在努比亞和蘇丹文化及其陶瓷傳統的研究，涵蓋從晚期史前時代到歷史時期。她是陶瓷材料特徵、製作技術和來源的實驗室方法專家。自2006年以來，她一直在北非工作，參與了多個國際田野考古項目，包括埃及（法拉法、象島）和蘇丹（賽島、阿馬拉西、阿塔布和費爾卡地區、薩巴洛卡山）。她對文化身份和文化交融的概念感興趣，並關注史前社會中通過物質文化表達的社會學習和文化傳承的動態。她曾擔任歐洲研究理事會啟動資助項目「跨越古代邊界和文化：公元前第二千年埃及微觀世界在蘇丹」的博士後研究員（2013-2016），以及歐洲研究理事會整合資助項目「中尼羅河谷的文化多樣性：重建公元前青銅時代北蘇丹城市中心邊緣的傳記」的博士後研究員（2020-2024）。

Elena A.A. Garcea 是意大利卡西諾和南拉齊奧大學的史前考古學全職教授。自1986年以來，她在蘇丹進行田野考古工作並協調考古研究，從1990年到2010年在利比亞進行研究項目，並於2005年和2006年擔任尼日爾戈貝羅考古項目的現場主任。她是九本書籍及超過260篇有關非洲史前考古學的期刊文章和書籍章節的作者和編輯。

Lenka Varadzinová 是捷克埃及學研究所（查爾斯大學文學院）的高級研究員。她專注於東北非的史前時代，特別是人類與環境的互動、韌性和適應，研究晚更新世和早全新世的蘇丹，並同樣關注人類社會及其獨特傳記的個體。她是關注中央蘇丹第六尼羅河瀑布薩巴洛卡山史前居住的跨學科研究項目的負責人（自2009年起），並參與聚焦於東薩赫勒非水域環境的晚期史前適應的Shaqadud項目（自2020年起）。自2006年以來，她參與了在埃及、利比亞和蘇丹的多次調查，專注於在景觀和考古學背景下研究岩畫。

Ladislav Varadzin 是捷克科學院考古學研究所的高級研究員，專注於東北非的史前時代和中世紀中歐。他在捷克共和國和非洲指導了超過40次考古挖掘。目前，他是東蘇丹薩卡杜德山史前居住地考古探索的負責人，以及捷克共和國維謝赫拉德中世紀統治者居住地的負責人。他參與了在第六尼羅河瀑布的薩巴洛卡山的史前居住地調查。