Seminarium PCMA: Mobility and Transmission of Pottery Knowledge

Na kolejnym spotkaniu z serii „Pot Talks” wystąpi Ewa Czyżewska-Zalewska (CAŚ UW) z prezentacją: „Mobility and Transmission of Pottery Knowledge”

Abstrakt: The Early Makuria Research Project was a significant initiative focused on studying the period between the 4 th and 7 th centuries, known as Early Makuria, in the Dongola Reach (between the 3rd and 4 th Nile Cataracts) in ancient Nubia. Following the decline of the Meroitic State, this region transformed into an independent polity known as Makuria after its conversion to Christianity (5 th /6 th -14 th century AD). This study investigates pottery found in funerary contexts at early Makurian sites of El- Zuma, El-Detti, and Tanqasi, located in the Dongola Reach. The absence of settlement sites from this period limits direct evidence of pottery production use and distribution. Therefore, this research combines archaeological analysis of vessel assemblages from funerary contexts with ethnographic studies of modern Sudanese pottery-making traditions. By comparing ceramic production techniques and vessel forms, this study examines whether pottery traditions spread through the mobility of potters or local knowledge transmission. This approach explores how ancient potters may have worked and how their knowledge was spread.