Not meant to last: mobility and disposable pottery (Gibbs 2012) (original) (raw)

Discussions of the emergence of pottery have often focused on the development of durable vessels among sedentary societies. However, there is increasing appreciation of the fact that early pottery was sometimes used by mobile groups, such as Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers in East Asia and perhaps Late Neolithic pastoral nomads in the Near East. Pottery that was not intended to have a long use-life, i.e. disposable pottery, could have been used to resolve some of the conflicts between pottery production and a mobile way of life, including scheduling conflicts, length of production episodes, portability and scale of production. IZVLE∞EK -Diskusije o pojavu lon≠enine so bile pogosto usmerjene v ∏tudije o razvoju obstojnih posod med stalno naseljenimi dru∫bami. Vendar pa se v zadnjem ≠asu vedno ve≠ pozornosti posve≠a tudi dejstvu, da so lon≠enino uporabljale tudi mobilne skupnosti, kot so pozno-paleolitski lovci in nabiralci v vzhodni Aziji ter morda tudi pozno-neolitski pastoralni nomadi na Bli∫njem vzhodu. Lon-≠enina, ki ni bila izdelana z namenom dolge uporabe, tj. lon≠enina za kratkotrajno uporabo, je morda slu∫ila re∏evanju neskladnosti med proizvodnjo lon≠enine na eni in mobilnim na≠inom ∫ivljenja na drugi strani. Te neskladnosti so med drugim odpravljali z na≠rtovanjem dejavnosti, s kraj∏im ≠asom proizvodnje, prenosnostjo in z obsegom proizvodnje.