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  • The social context of early pottery in the Lingnan region of south China

  • Richard Pearson
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 79 / Issue 306 / December 2005
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    10 March 2015, pp. 819-828
    Print publication:
    December 2005

  • Late Pleistocene and early post-Pleistocene communities in East Asia experimented with pottery production and the domestication of plants and animals. What was the nature of the social organisation of these early small-scale societies? Some North American writers consider pottery making to be a ‘prestige technology’ sponsored by aggrandising individuals. However, examples from south of the Nanling Mountains and other areas have simple tool assemblages and site plans showing very little evidence of social differences. Judging from recent debates about social agency, there are more appropriate explanations for the earliest pottery making, which focus on the collective rather than the individual.