The innovation of the potter's wheel: a comparative perspective between Mesopotamia and the southern Levant

Johnny Baldi (1) , Valentine Roux (2)

1 IFPO - Institut Français du Proche-Orient
2 PréTech - Préhistoire et Technologie

"The southern Levant and northern Mesopotamia are two areas in which the potter's wheel seems to have appeared independently. New data enable us to undertake a comparison between both regions."

Mots clés: potter's wheel; Late Chalcolithic; north Mesopotamia; southern Levant; innovation; diffusion; ceramics

Domaines: Archéologie et Préhistoire

Johnny Baldi, Valentine Roux. The innovation of the potter's wheel: a comparative perspective between Mesopotamia and the southern Levant. Levant: The Journal of the Council for British Research in the Levant , 2016, 48 (3), pp.1-18. ⟨10.1080/00758914.2016.1230379⟩. ⟨hal-01548537⟩