Ceramic Technology of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age Transformation in Northern and Central Europe

The supplement is a more detailed description of the experiments published. The article itself deals with the experimental production of Funnel Beaker pottery, as well as the type and duration of decoration in comparison to Bronze Age pottery in Northern and Central Europe. Production times, surface treatment and tools are presented. Based on the hypothesis that the decoration of Neolithic pottery is more elaborated than the more simply decorated or undecorated vessels of the Bronze and Iron Ages, the chaînes opératoires were documented, the time for the individual working steps measured and compared. Ethnographic and archaeological observations are also used to investigate the question of household production. Did every household in the European Neolithic and the Bronze Age have the technological and practical prerequisites to produce pottery? Or was it rather a matter of specialised groups that produced ceramics, so-called workshops, as is taken for granted for metal production? While the article considers the latter scenario to be more plausible, the experiments show that the time required to produce Neolithic and Bronze Age vessels remains almost the same.

本补充材料对已发表的实验进行了更为详尽的阐释。本文主体聚焦漏斗杯陶器（Funnel Beaker pottery）的实验制作，同时对比北欧与中欧地区青铜时代陶器的装饰类型与装饰时长。文中还阐述了制作时长、器物表面处理工艺及所使用的工具。基于"新石器时代陶器的装饰工艺较青铜时代与铁器时代装饰简约或无装饰的器物更为繁复"这一假说，本文对陶器制作操作链（chaînes opératoires）进行了记录，对各工序耗时进行了测算与对比。此外，本文还借助民族志与考古学观察，探讨家庭式制陶的相关问题：欧洲新石器时代与青铜时代的每个家庭是否都具备制陶的技术与实践条件？亦或是如金属制作领域的惯例那般，制陶由专门的群体即所谓的制陶作坊完成？尽管本文认为后一种情形更为合理，但实验结果显示，制作新石器时代与青铜时代陶器所需的耗时几乎并无差异。