SECONDARY USE, REUSE AND RECYCLING OF
CERAMIC VESSELS: EVIDENCE FROM LATE
NEOLITHIC VINČA Cover Image

SEKUNDARNA UPOTREBA, PONOVNA UPOTREBA I RECIKLIRANJE KERAMIČKIH POSUDA: PODACI IZ KASNONEOLITSKE VINČE
SECONDARY USE, REUSE AND RECYCLING OF CERAMIC VESSELS: EVIDENCE FROM LATE NEOLITHIC VINČA

Author(s): Jasna Vuković
Subject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Филозофски факултет, Универзитет у Београду
Keywords: pottery;Vinča; secondary use; re-use;recycling; life-cycle; disposal areas

Summary/Abstract: Several ways of ceramic vessel’s secondary use, reuse and recycling were recorded in Late Neolithic Vinča. The first is represented by partly damaged vessels used as moulds in pottery forming sequence. Re-use refers to the vessels with shape modifications made after they lost their primary function. Recycling is considered as usage of pottery sherds: as tools, building material for oven foundations, and as temper for pottery making. Since the pottery was used in a variety of activities,their life-cycles were discussed and it is assumed that special disposal areas existed in the Neolithic settlement.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 111-126
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English, Serbian