Valdis Bērziņš

Gazing into the voids: the morphology of shell temper reveals pottery-making practices and pottery exchange among hunter-fishers in north-east Europe

Stereomicroscopic examination of voids from dissolved bivalve shell in hunter-fisher-gatherer pottery from Latvia (4th mill. BC) reveals several distinct morphologies useful for characterisation of this tempering material, thus permitting new insights into pottery production and...