Breaking the Mould: Challenging the Past through Pottery: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Prehistoric Ceramics. University of Manchester, 6-8 October 2006

This book presents the proceedings of an international pottery conference organised by the author and held at the University of Manchester in 2006. Over 50 delegates from Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Sweden, Italy and the Republic of Macedonia presented papers on interdisciplinary ceramics research across the globe. The contributions fall into three themes: 1) advances in methodology, 2) issues of identity and 3) the contribution of the sciences. True to the theme of the conference, all the papers exemplify how careful analysis of the social, technological, economic and political context allows us to extract much information about how ceramics fit into the social matrix of a society and advance our interpretations.