The site of Tell Sabi Abyad in Syria offers a superb stratified sequence passing from the aceramic (pre-pottery) to pottery-using Neolithic around 7000 BC. Surprisingly the first pottery arrives fully developed with mineral tempering, burnishing and stripey decoration in painted slip. The expected, more experimental-looking, plant-tempered coarse wares shaped by baskets arrive about 300 years later. Did the first ceramic impetus come from elsewhere?

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Not so coarse, nor always plain - the earliest pottery of Syria

Architecture as material culture: Building form and materiality in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of Anatolia and Levant

Les premieres ceramiques apparaissent au Proche-Orient dans la deuxieme moitie du IXe millenaire BP, c'est-a-dire lorsque tous les autres elements qui participent au processus de la neolithisation sont deja en place. Malgre la rarete des donnees disponibles, il semble possible d'esquisser un tableau general des debuts de la technique ceramique dans cette region, en distinguant plusieurs grandes etapes. L'etude du contexte technologique dans lequel apparait la ceramique, au travers des usages divers de l'argile, et celle des caracteres techniques des ceramiques neolithiques anciennes permettent d'aborder la question d'une elaboration locale de la technique ceramique au Proche-Orient. Seront traitees les raisons possibles qui ont conduit a l'usage de cette technique, en particulier le developpement des usages culinaires et non culinaires de la ceramique.

Les débuts de la céramique au Proche-Orient

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Diffusion of Anatolian and Caucasian obsidian in the Zagros Mountains and the highlands of Iran: Elements of explanation in 'least cost path' models

Resume : La ceramique Proto-Hassuna a longtemps ete consideree comme la plus ancienne du bassin du Khabur et de l'ensemble de la Haute Mesopotamie (Sotto, Umm Dabaghiyah...). Les donnees fournies par les fouilles recemment effectuees a Tell Seker al-Aheimar remettent en cause cette vision. Elles demontrent qu 'une phase ceramique a precede le Proto-Hassuna, se distinguant de celui-ci par la ceramique aussi bien que par l 'architecture et la technologie lithique. La sequence longue et continue de Tell Seker al-Aheimar, qui commence peut-etre au PPNB Moyen et s 'acheve au Proto-Hassuna, montre que cette entite culturelle, appelee provisoirement « Pre-Proto- Hassuna », s 'est developpee a partir d'un facies local du PPNB du Taurus oriental et a progressivement evolue vers le Proto-Hassuna. Les datations radiocarbone indiquent pour cette phase le debut du VIIIe millenaire BP, une periode anterieure a celle des sites Proto- Hassuna aussi bien de Syrie du Nord-Est que d'Iraq du Nord. Dans la mesure ou aucun site vraiment comparable au « Pre-Proto- Hassuna » n 'est connu en Iraq du Nord, ces nouvelles donnees soulignent la necessite de reconsiderer le Neolithique de Haute Mesopotamie dans son ensemble.

The oldest pottery Neolithic of Upper Mesopotamia : New evidence from Tell Seker al-Aheimar, the Khabur, northeast Syria

Ginnig est un petit site prehistorique du Nord de la Djezireh en Iraq. Sa couche superieure a ete l'objet de fouilles de sauvetage. Bien que les fouilles aient ete limitees, on a cependant decouvert la plus grande partie d'une construction a l'architecture inhabituelle, comprenant des depots ď«ouverture» et de «fermeture» peut-etre rituels, bien que le reste du materiel semble de nature domestique. La ceramique est apparentee a celle des sites neolithiques ceramique ancien du type Umm Dabaghiyah, mais, selon toutes apparences, semble le preceder, tandis que Г industrie lithique trouve ses meilleurs paralleles dans les sites neolithiques aceramiques. Y a-t-il possibilite de continuite entre le neolithique ceramique et aceramique de cette region et quelle serait alors la nature d'une telle transition ?

Excavations at Ginnig. The Aceramic to Early Ceramic Neolithic Sequence in North Iraq.

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Excavations at Ginnig. The Aceramic to Early Ceramic Neolithic Sequence in North Iraq.