Professor Dragos Gheorghiu is an anthropologist and experimental archaeologist whose studies focus on the process of cognition, and material culture, of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic societies of South Eastern Europe. His most recent research is concerned with the reconstruction of prehistoric kilns and wattle and daub buildings.Professor Gheorghiu is the author of multiple books on archaic technologies, he is the editor and co-editor of a series of publications on pyro-technologies, and has a sustained publication activity on prehistoric material culture in Europe.

'Archeaologists, especially those interested in ceramics, should read this book, which offers a great deal of information about ceramic traditions in the Neolithic of the Near East and Europe.'Raimond Thorn, European Journal of Archeaology, Sage Publications, 2010'If we wish to explain when, how and why communities first adopted pottery, context matters. Books such as these are therefore valuable contributions.This volume is recommended to everyone interested in the initial adoption of ceramics in Europe.'Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse, Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies 23, 2007'The articles are presented in a geographically arranged order, from south to north, which also provides the book with a chronologically arrangement of the chapters... This structure works well....the book serves as a door opener to the ceramic traditions of Europe and opens up further reading due to interesting articles as well as rich reference lists.'Lotte Eigeland and Steiner Solheim, Norwegian Archaeological Review, Vol 23, No. 1, November 2010

Professor Dragos Gheorghiu is an anthropologist and experimental archaeologist whose studies focus on the process of cognition, and material culture, of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic societies of South Eastern Europe. His most recent research is concerned with the reconstruction of prehistoric kilns and wattle and daub buildings.Professor Gheorghiu is the author of multiple books on archaic technologies, he is the editor and co-editor of a series of publications on pyro-technologies, and has a sustained publication activity on prehistoric material culture in Europe.

'Archeaologists, especially those interested in ceramics, should read this book, which offers a great deal of information about ceramic traditions in the Neolithic of the Near East and Europe.'Raimond Thorn, European Journal of Archeaology, Sage Publications, 2010'If we wish to explain when, how and why communities first adopted pottery, context matters. Books such as these are therefore valuable contributions.This volume is recommended to everyone interested in the initial adoption of ceramics in Europe.'Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse, Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies 23, 2007'The articles are presented in a geographically arranged order, from south to north, which also provides the book with a chronologically arrangement of the chapters... This structure works well....the book serves as a door opener to the ceramic traditions of Europe and opens up further reading due to interesting articles as well as rich reference lists.'Lotte Eigeland and Steiner Solheim, Norwegian Archaeological Review, Vol 23, No. 1, November 2010

Professor Dragos Gheorghiu is an anthropologist and experimental archaeologist whose studies focus on the process of cognition, and material culture, of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic societies of South Eastern Europe. His most recent research is concerned with the reconstruction of prehistoric kilns and wattle and daub buildings.Professor Gheorghiu is the author of multiple books on archaic technologies, he is the editor and co-editor of a series of publications on pyro-technologies, and has a sustained publication activity on prehistoric material culture in Europe.

'Archeaologists, especially those interested in ceramics, should read this book, which offers a great deal of information about ceramic traditions in the Neolithic of the Near East and Europe.'Raimond Thorn, European Journal of Archeaology, Sage Publications, 2010'If we wish to explain when, how and why communities first adopted pottery, context matters. Books such as these are therefore valuable contributions.This volume is recommended to everyone interested in the initial adoption of ceramics in Europe.'Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse, Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies 23, 2007'The articles are presented in a geographically arranged order, from south to north, which also provides the book with a chronologically arrangement of the chapters... This structure works well....the book serves as a door opener to the ceramic traditions of Europe and opens up further reading due to interesting articles as well as rich reference lists.'Lotte Eigeland and Steiner Solheim, Norwegian Archaeological Review, Vol 23, No. 1, November 2010