In Eurasia the invention of ceramic technology and production of fired-clay vessels has not necessarily been related to the dynamics of the transition tofarming. The invention of ceramic technology in Europe was associated with female and animal figurine making in Gravettian technocomplex. The fired-clay vessels occurred first in hunter-gatherer contexts in Eastern Eurasia a millennia before the agriculture. The adoption of pottery making in Levant seems to correlate with the collapse of the 'ritual economy', social decentralization and community fragmentation in the Levantine Pre-Pottery Neolithic. In South-eastern Europe the adoption of pottery making was closely associated with social, symbolic and ritual hunter-gatherers' practices.

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Budja, Mihael (2006). The transition to farming and the ceramic trajectories in Western Eurasia. Documenta Praehistorica, volume 33, issue 33, str. 183-201. URN:NBN:SI:DOC-N2N1FUVD from http://www.dlib.si

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Budja, Mihael. "The transition to farming and the ceramic trajectories in Western Eurasia." Documenta Praehistorica volume 33. issue 33 (2006) str. 183-201.
<http://www.dlib.si/?URN=URN:NBN:SI:DOC-N2N1FUVD>

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