TY - JOUR
T1 - Rocks and clay
T2 - Potters' technological choices within the cultural dynamics of Bronze Age Kazakhstan
AU - Doumani Dupuy, Paula N.
AU - Amicone, Silvia
AU - Frenken, Marcel
AU - Berner, Jack
AU - Hermes, Taylor
AU - Frachetti, Michael D.
AU - Kiyasbek, Galymzhan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 Doumani Dupuy et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2025/4
Y1 - 2025/4
N2 - Through regular interactions with their neighbors, diverse groups inhabiting areas along the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor during the Bronze Age formed dynamic interregional networks that saw the proliferation and persistence of shared material cultures over vast geographic areas. In this paper we advocate for ceramics analyses that combine both macro- and micro-scale technological studies alongside those of style, in order not to lose sight of the actual people who drove defining transformations in the Bronze Age. We present a petrographic study of pottery from the Zhetysu region, southeastern Kazakhstan, to examine diachronic technological traditions with a special focus on routines of selection and raw material processing. Our results demonstrate site-specific potting technologies as well as traits that transcend both time and space across episodes of high genetic turnover in the human population.
AB - Through regular interactions with their neighbors, diverse groups inhabiting areas along the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor during the Bronze Age formed dynamic interregional networks that saw the proliferation and persistence of shared material cultures over vast geographic areas. In this paper we advocate for ceramics analyses that combine both macro- and micro-scale technological studies alongside those of style, in order not to lose sight of the actual people who drove defining transformations in the Bronze Age. We present a petrographic study of pottery from the Zhetysu region, southeastern Kazakhstan, to examine diachronic technological traditions with a special focus on routines of selection and raw material processing. Our results demonstrate site-specific potting technologies as well as traits that transcend both time and space across episodes of high genetic turnover in the human population.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105003846827
U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0320140
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0320140
M3 - Article
C2 - 40267144
AN - SCOPUS:105003846827
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 20
JO - PloS one
JF - PloS one
IS - 4 April
M1 - e0320140
ER -