CERAMICS IN CIRCUMPOLAR PREHISTORY Throughout prehistory the Circumpolar World was inhabited by hunter- gatherers. Pottery-making would have been extremely difficult in these cold,northernenvironments,andthecraftshouldneverhavebeenableto disperse into this region. However, archaeologists are now aware that pottery traditions were adopted widely across the Northern World and went on to play a key role in subsistence and social life. This book sheds lightonthehumanmotivationsthatlaybehindtheadoptionofpottery,the challengesthathadtobeovercomeinordertoproduceitandthesolutions that emerged. Including essays by an international team of scholars, the volume offers a compelling portrait of the role that pottery cooking technologies played in northern lifeways, both in the prehistoric past and in more recentethnographic times. PeterJordanisDirectoroftheArcticCentreandholdstheChairinArctic Studies at the University of Groningen. He is a specialist in Circumpolar hunter-gatherersandhaspublishedwidelyonthetechnologyandlifeways of northern peoples, past and present, particularly in Siberia. His recent books include: Ceramics before Farming, Landscape and Culture in Northern Eurasia,TechnologyasHumanSocialTraditionandTheOxfordHandbookofthe Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers. Kevin Gibbs is Assistant Researcher at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of AnthropologyattheUniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley.Hisresearchinter- estsincludeearlypotterytechnologyanduse,hunter-gathererarchaeology andtheNeolithicperiod.HisrecentresearchhasbeenpublishedinNature, PNASand Antiquity. 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CONTENTS List of Illustrations page vii List of Tables ix Notes on Contributors xi 1 COLD WINTERS, HOT SOUPS AND FROZEN CLAY: UNDERSTANDING THE ADOPTION OF POTTERY TRADITIONS INTO THE CIRCUMPOLAR NORTH 1 PeterJordanandKevinGibbs 2 WHY DID NORTHERN FORAGERS MAKE POTTERY?: INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF INCIPIENT JOMON CERAMICS WITHIN WIDER HUNTER-GATHERER SUBSISTENCE STRATEGIES IN PREHISTORIC JAPAN 17 JunzoUchiyama 3 VESSELS ON THE VITIM: “NEOLITHIC” CERAMICS IN EASTERN SIBERIA 37 V.M.VetrovandP.N.Hommel 4 MARITIME NOMADS OF THE BALTIC SEA: CERAMIC TRADITIONS, COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES AND PREHISTORIC CUISINE 63 SvenIsaksson,KevinGibbsandPeterJordan 5 THE PARADOX OF POTTERY IN THE REMOTE KURIL ISLANDS 81 ErikGjesfjeld 6 UNDERSTANDING THE FUNCTION OF CONTAINER TECHNOLOGIES IN PREHISTORIC SOUTHWEST ALASKA 104 MarjoleinAdmiraalandRickKnecht v vi CONTENTS 7 ETHNOGRAPHIC AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE USE LIFE OF NORTHWEST ALASKAN POTTERY 128 ShelbyL.Anderson 8 AN EXPLORATION OF ARCTIC CERAMIC AND SOAPSTONE COOKWARE TECHNOLOGIES AND FOOD PREPARATION SYSTEMS 152 LiamFrinkandKarenG.Harry 9 CERAMIC USE BY MIDDLE AND LATE WOODLAND FORAGERS OF THE MARITIME PROVINCES 168 MichaelDeal,ThomasFarrell,LatoniaHartery,AlisonHarris andMichaelSanders 10 PRESTIGE FOODS AND THE ADOPTION OF POTTERY BY SUBARCTIC FORAGERS 193 MatthewBoyd,MeganWady,AndrewLints,ClarenceSurette andScottHamilton 11 USE OF CERAMIC TECHNOLOGIES BY CIRCUMPOLAR HUNTER-GATHERERS: CURRENT PROGRESS AND FUTURE RESEARCH PROSPECTS 216 BrianHayden Index 227 ILLUSTRATIONS 1.1 Location map of case studies presented in the book. page 6 2.1 Location map of Torihama with LGM vegetation zones 18 and site stratigraphy. 2.2 Histograms showing composition of faunal assemblages at Torihama. 23 2.3 Comparison of archaeological materials recovered from Kenshojo 28 and Torihama. 2.4 Location of Incipient Jomon sites in Shikoku Island; examples of stone figurines from Kamikuroiwa; correlation between the timing of 29 megafaunal extinction in Japan and past climatic conditions. 3.1 Location of the Ust’-Karenga site. 38 3.2 Map of the Ust’-Karenga complex and generalized stratigraphic 41 section. 3.3 Summary of modeled radiocarbon dates for the dated cultural layers at Ust’-Karenga XII. 43 3.4 Early vessels of the Ust’-Karenga cultural phase. 45 3.5 Motifs on Ust’-Karenga culture ceramics. 47 3.6 Location map of Ust’-Karenga and the Ust’-Yumurchen cultures. 52 3.7 Selected vessels of the Ust’-Yumurchen cultural phase. 55 4.1 Reconstructed vessels from Högmossen, Sweden. 65 4.2 View over the Baltic Sea from Väddö in the Stockholm archipelago. 67 4.3 Location map of sites mentioned in text. 71 5.1 Map of the Kuril Islands. 82 5.2 Estimate of population density in the Kuril Islands. 84 5.3 Classification scheme for Kuril ceramics. 88 5.4 Association of radiocarbon dates with diagnostic pottery types. 90 5.5 Body/neck shapes in the Kuril pottery assemblage. 91 5.6 Histogram of temper abundance and coarseness. 92 5.7 Chromatograms of lipid residues from selected Kuril pottery sherds. 97 6.1 Location map of Southwest Alaska study area. 105 6.2 Stone bowl fragment. 108 6.3 Stone bowl fragment. 108 6.4 Aleutian stone lamp. 108 6.5 Griddle stone fragment. 110 6.6 Norton Smelt Creek pottery. 113 6.7 Norton Brooks River Weir pottery. 113 6.8 Norton pottery profiles. 114 vii viii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 6.9 Thule pottery. 116 6.10 A typical Koniag pot. 120 7.1 Location map of Northwest Alaska study area. 129 7.2 Examples of Northwest Alaskan ceramic surface decorations. 131 7.3 Northwest Alaskan sourcing study area. 134 8.1 Location map of North American Arctic. 154 8.2 Inuit woman and child inside a snow house on Baffin Land (1909). 159 8.3 Reproduced Eastern soapstone cooking pot. 160 8.4 Reproduced Western Thule ceramic pot. 161 9.1 Map of study area indicating approximate boundaries of Native 169 territories at contact. 9.2 Reconstructed rim and neck segment of Vessel 3 from Fulton Island. 173 9.3 Recovery of Vessel lot 2, Feature 6, End of Dyke site, Gaspereau Lake (2012). 178 9.4 Interior view of mended vessel from Feature 6, End of Dyke 179 site, Gaspereau Lake. 10.1 Location map of study region. 196 10.2 Example of Blackduck (Late Woodland) mortuary pot. 197