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

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