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Foreword, 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 Hallgren
14. 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 Gronener
Part 4 Ceramic Dispersals In World Perspective
20. Discussion: Living at the Edge - William K. Barnett

21. Hunter Gatherer Pottery: an Emerging 14C Chronology - Peter Hommel

Index