List of IllustrationsForeword, Brian Hayden Preface Part 1 Introduction 1. Ex Oriente Lux: The Prehistory of Hunter Gatherer Ceramic Dispersals - Peter Jordan and Marek Zvelebil Part 2 Early Ceramic Innovations And Dispersals 2. Long-Term Innovation: The Appearance and Spread of Pottery in the Japanese Archipelago - Simon Kaner 3. Pottery-making in Prehistoric Cultures of the Russian Far East - Irina S. Zhushchikhovskaya 4. The Hunter-Gatherer Ceramics of Neolithic Korea - Daeyoun Cho and Ilhong Ko 5. Review of Early Hunter-Gatherer Pottery in Eastern Siberia - Hugh McKenzie 6. Early Hunter Gatherer Ceramics in the Urals and Western Siberia - Natalia Chairkina and Lubov Kosinskaya 7. Early Pottery Makers in Eastern Europe: Centres of Origins, Subsistence and Dispersal - Pavel Dolukhanov, Andrei Mazurkevich and Anvar Shukurov 8. Early Hunter-Gatherer Ceramics in Karelia - Konstantin German 9. Ceramic Anthropomorphic Sculptures of the East European Forest Zone - Ekaterina Kashina 10. Pottery of the Stone Age Hunter-Gatherers in Finland - Petro Pesonen and Sirpa Leskinen 11. Ceramics as a Novelty in Northern and Southern Sweden - Ole Stilborg and Lena Holm 12. All Change: Exploring the Role of Technological Choice in the Early Northern Comb Ware of Finnmark, Arctic Norway - Marianne Skandfer 13. Tiny Islands in a Far Sea: On the Seal Hunters of Aland, and the North-Western Limit in the Spread of Early Pottery - Fredrik Hallgren14. The Pitted Ware Culture in Eastern Middle Sweden: Material Culture and Human Agency - Mats Larsson 15. Pitted Ware Culture Ceramics: Aspects of Pottery Production and Use at Ottenby Royal Manor, Oland, Sweden - Ludvig Papmehl-Dufay Part 3 Early Pottery In Forager-Farmer Interaction Zones 16. Hunter-Gatherers and Early Ceramics in Poland - Marek Nowak 17. Early Pottery in Hunter-Gatherer Societies of Western Europe - Philippe Crombe 18. Ceramic Trajectories: from Figurines to Vessels - Mihael Budja 19. Transregional Culture Contacts and the Neolithization Process in Northern Central Europe - Detlef GronenerPart 4 Ceramic Dispersals In World Perspective 20. Discussion: Living at the Edge - William K. Barnett21. Hunter Gatherer Pottery: an Emerging 14C Chronology - Peter Hommel Index