Painting pots, painting people : : late Neolithic ceramics in ancient Mesopotamia / / edited by Walter Cruells, Inna Mateiciucova and Olivier Nieuwenhuyse.

• TeilnehmendeR: Cruells, Walter,; Mateiciucova, Inna,; Nieuwenhuyse, Olivier,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford ;, Philadelphia : : Oxbow Books,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (386 pages) :; illustrations, maps

Table of Contents

Late Neolithic pottery studies in the ancient Near East / Olivier Nieuwenhuyse, Walter Cruells and Inna Mateiciucova -- Transitions and their chronologies in the pottery Neolithic of the Near East / Walter Cruells -- Dark and light colour in early Near Eastern pottery : from technique to decoration / Marie Le Miere, Mihriban Ozbasaran and Maurice Picon -- Investigating painted, incised and impressed ware from the late Halaf period / Anna Gomez Bach -- The painted Halaf pottery from Tell Tawila and the Tell Chuera region / Jorg Becker -- The appearance and development of painted ceramics at seventh millennium Tell Halula (Syria) / Josep-Miquel Faura and Miquel Molist -- Analysis of paint on prehistoric pottery from late Neolithic Tell Arbid Abyad (north-eastern Syria) / Dalibor Viansky and Inna Mateiciucova -- Late Neolithic pottery at Catalhoyuk East / Lech Czerniak and Joanna Pyzel -- Late Neolithic pottery traditions on the upper Tigris Valley / Halil Tekin -- Pots to be seen / Olivier Nieuwenhuyse -- De l'art ou du cochon? / Beatrice Robert with Loic Daverat -- Painted pottery and visual representations at Tell Kurdu / Rana Ozbal -- Animal motifs on Halaf painted pottery / Mucella Erdalkiran -- What happened in prehistory : can sherds speak? / Petr Charvat -- More than just a pretty face : the meaningful use of painted pottery in the Halaf period / Marie Hopwood -- Decoration of Neolithic pottery in the northern Levant : a view from the Rouj Basin / Takahiro Odaka -- Exploring the data : the pottery of Umm Qseir / Frank Hole -- Was white ware always white? : looking into the world of painted plaster / Bonnie Nilhamn -- Weaving and potting during the late Neolithic period : are there textile patterns on the early painted pottery of Mesopotamia? / Catherine Breniquet.