K Gibbs
Biographic Data
| ID | 18699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Gibbs |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Gibbs |
| SIGNATURE | GIBBS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3669-5700 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 166 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Disaster, survival and recovery
Archaeologists have traditionally framed the impacts of natural disasters in terms of societal collapse versus cultural resilience. The 7.3ka cal BP Kikai-Akahoya (K-Ah) ‘super-eruption’ in south-western Japan was among the largest volcanic events of the Holocene. Here, the authors deploy a multi-proxy approach to examine how K-Ah devastated Tanegashima Island. While local Jōmon populations were annihilated, surrounding communities survived and e…
The emergence of ceramics in Southwest Asia
Walnuts, salmon and sika deer
Exploring the emergence of an 'Aquatic' Neolithic in the Russian Far East
Ancient lipids document continuity in the use of early hunter–gatherer pottery through 9,000 years of Japanese prehistory
Significance Pottery has had a central role in human society for many millennia, but the reasons for the emergence and spread of this technology are poorly understood. First invented by groups of hunter–gatherers living in East Asia during the last glacial period, production only began to flourish with rising global temperatures in the Holocene, but the reasons for its uptake and spread are unknown. Through chemical analysis of their contents, we…
A comparative perspective on the ‘western’ and ‘eastern’ Neolithics of Eurasia
Modelling the diffusion of pottery technologies across Afro-Eurasia
Pottery Invention and Innovation in East Asia and the Near East
The invention of ceramic objects made from fire-hardened clay represents an important and early step in the development of pyrotechnology. This paper examines pottery invention and innovation by hunter-gatherers in East Asia and by farmers in the Near East to examine how prehistoric communities in different socio-economic systems came to rely heavily on fired-clay containers. Drawing on advances in archaeological science, it examines from a compa…
Modeling Spatial Innovation Diffusion from Radiocarbon Dates and Regression Residuals
This article introduces a method of exploratory analysis of the geographical factors influencing large-scale innovation diffusion, and illustrates its application to the case of early pottery dispersal in the Old World. Regression techniques are used to identify broad-scale spatiotemporal trends in the innovation's first occurrence, and regression residuals are then analyzed to identify geographical variation (climate, biomes) that may have influ…
Specialized Processing of Aquatic Resources in Prehistoric Alaskan Pottery? A Lipid-Residue Analysis of Ceramic Sherds from the Thule-Period Site of Nunalleq, Alaska
Largely missing from the debate surrounding the use of pottery among arctic and subarctic hunter-gatherers are site-based biomolecular studies of vessel contents. This study used lipid-residue analysis to elucidate vessel function at Nunalleq (GDN-248), a late Thule-period coastal village site in the Yup’ik area of Western Alaska. In total, 31 pottery sherds and five soil samples were analyzed using gas chromatography and/or gas chromatography–ma…
Earliest evidence for the use of pottery
Bridging the Boreal Forest
This article examines Siberia's increasingly important role in the study of the emergence of pottery across northern Eurasia. The world's earliest pottery comes from Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherer sites in East Asia. This material is typically seen as disconnected from later pottery traditions in Europe, which are generally associated with sedentary farmers. However, new evidence suggests that Asian and European pottery traditions may be linked…
Late Neolithic Pottery and Ambiguous Symbols in the Southern Levant
Compared to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB), evidence for potentially symbolic imagery is rare in the Late Neolithic of the Southern Levant, consisting primarily of figurines and decorated pottery. While the symbolic roles of fi gurines have occasionally been discussed, studies of decorated pottery have usually focused on developing chronologies or defirning the boundaries of archaeological cultures. In an attempt to better understand pottery …
Not meant to last
Discussions of the emergence of pottery have often focused on the development of durable vessels among sedentary societies. However, there is increasing appreciation of the fact that early pottery was sometimes used by mobile groups, such as Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers in East Asia and perhaps Late Neolithic pastoral nomads in the Near East. Pottery that was not intended to have a long use-life, i.e. disposable pottery, could have been used…
Maya Zooarchaeology
Activity space environment and dietary and physical activity behaviors
Early Bronze I Occupation at al-Basatîn, in Wadi Ziqlab, Northern Jordan
Excavations at al-Basatîn in Wadi Ziqlab, northern Jordan, have recovered evidence for an EB I occupation at the site, in addition to strata dating to the Late Neolithic and Classical periods. Artifacts and a series of radiocarbon assays indicate this occupation dates to the early EB I. Analyses of the pottery, stone tools, and faunal remains suggest the site was a small, perhaps somewhat isolated, farmstead that was engaged in a variety of domes…
Subsistence practices and pottery use in Neolithic Jordan
Late Neolithic Settlement in Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan
Research in Wadi Ziqlab, Northern Jordan, has focused on the discovery and excavation of Late Neolithic sites in an attempt to understand its regional settlement system in the sixth millennium cal. BC. Previous evidence suggested that small hamlets or farmsteads may have characterized this settlement system, as represented at Tabaqat al-Bûma. Recent excavations at a site downstream, al-Basatîn, have revealed evidence for a settlement that was par…
Housebuilding in a Recession
In this paper we examine recently completed research in the Scottish housebuilding industry as it emerges from recession. A regionally differentiated downturn in construction activity has hit Scotland less severely than parts of England but the Scottish experience may nonetheless be able to shed light on prospects for the future. In the paper we use a structure-conduct-performance paradigm to classify the industry and to see where and by how much…
Bidding, Auctions, and House Purchase
In this paper, the economics of house purchase are examined, in particular in relation to bidding in housing auctions. A small postal survey of recent movers in the City of Glasgow is analysed to indicate the factors associated with economic rent accruing to the seller. Although there are important a priori links between auction theory and house purchase through informational asymmetries which could yield testable propositions, there are fundamen…
Activity space environment and dietary and physical activity behaviors
Subsistence practices and pottery use in Neolithic Jordan
Modelling the diffusion of pottery technologies across Afro-Eurasia
Pottery Invention and Innovation in East Asia and the Near East
The invention of ceramic objects made from fire-hardened clay represents an important and early step in the development of pyrotechnology. This paper examines pottery invention and innovation by hunter-gatherers in East Asia and by farmers in the Near East to examine how prehistoric communities in different socio-economic systems came to rely heavily on fired-clay containers. Drawing on advances in archaeological science, it examines from a compa…
Late Neolithic Settlement in Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan
Research in Wadi Ziqlab, Northern Jordan, has focused on the discovery and excavation of Late Neolithic sites in an attempt to understand its regional settlement system in the sixth millennium cal. BC. Previous evidence suggested that small hamlets or farmsteads may have characterized this settlement system, as represented at Tabaqat al-Bûma. Recent excavations at a site downstream, al-Basatîn, have revealed evidence for a settlement that was par…
Exploring the emergence of an 'Aquatic' Neolithic in the Russian Far East
Specialized Processing of Aquatic Resources in Prehistoric Alaskan Pottery? A Lipid-Residue Analysis of Ceramic Sherds from the Thule-Period Site of Nunalleq, Alaska
Largely missing from the debate surrounding the use of pottery among arctic and subarctic hunter-gatherers are site-based biomolecular studies of vessel contents. This study used lipid-residue analysis to elucidate vessel function at Nunalleq (GDN-248), a late Thule-period coastal village site in the Yup’ik area of Western Alaska. In total, 31 pottery sherds and five soil samples were analyzed using gas chromatography and/or gas chromatography–ma…
Bridging the Boreal Forest
This article examines Siberia's increasingly important role in the study of the emergence of pottery across northern Eurasia. The world's earliest pottery comes from Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherer sites in East Asia. This material is typically seen as disconnected from later pottery traditions in Europe, which are generally associated with sedentary farmers. However, new evidence suggests that Asian and European pottery traditions may be linked…
Walnuts, salmon and sika deer
Bidding, Auctions, and House Purchase
In this paper, the economics of house purchase are examined, in particular in relation to bidding in housing auctions. A small postal survey of recent movers in the City of Glasgow is analysed to indicate the factors associated with economic rent accruing to the seller. Although there are important a priori links between auction theory and house purchase through informational asymmetries which could yield testable propositions, there are fundamen…
Not meant to last
Discussions of the emergence of pottery have often focused on the development of durable vessels among sedentary societies. However, there is increasing appreciation of the fact that early pottery was sometimes used by mobile groups, such as Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers in East Asia and perhaps Late Neolithic pastoral nomads in the Near East. Pottery that was not intended to have a long use-life, i.e. disposable pottery, could have been used…
Modeling Spatial Innovation Diffusion from Radiocarbon Dates and Regression Residuals
This article introduces a method of exploratory analysis of the geographical factors influencing large-scale innovation diffusion, and illustrates its application to the case of early pottery dispersal in the Old World. Regression techniques are used to identify broad-scale spatiotemporal trends in the innovation's first occurrence, and regression residuals are then analyzed to identify geographical variation (climate, biomes) that may have influ…
Late Neolithic Pottery and Ambiguous Symbols in the Southern Levant
Compared to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB), evidence for potentially symbolic imagery is rare in the Late Neolithic of the Southern Levant, consisting primarily of figurines and decorated pottery. While the symbolic roles of fi gurines have occasionally been discussed, studies of decorated pottery have usually focused on developing chronologies or defirning the boundaries of archaeological cultures. In an attempt to better understand pottery …
Housebuilding in a Recession
In this paper we examine recently completed research in the Scottish housebuilding industry as it emerges from recession. A regionally differentiated downturn in construction activity has hit Scotland less severely than parts of England but the Scottish experience may nonetheless be able to shed light on prospects for the future. In the paper we use a structure-conduct-performance paradigm to classify the industry and to see where and by how much…
Bidding, Auctions, and House Purchase
In this paper, the economics of house purchase are examined, in particular in relation to bidding in housing auctions. A small postal survey of recent movers in the City of Glasgow is analysed to indicate the factors associated with economic rent accruing to the seller. Although there are important a priori links between auction theory and house purchase through informational asymmetries which could yield testable propositions, there are fundamen…
Housebuilding in a Recession
In this paper we examine recently completed research in the Scottish housebuilding industry as it emerges from recession. A regionally differentiated downturn in construction activity has hit Scotland less severely than parts of England but the Scottish experience may nonetheless be able to shed light on prospects for the future. In the paper we use a structure-conduct-performance paradigm to classify the industry and to see where and by how much…
Subsistence practices and pottery use in Neolithic Jordan
Late Neolithic Settlement in Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan
Research in Wadi Ziqlab, Northern Jordan, has focused on the discovery and excavation of Late Neolithic sites in an attempt to understand its regional settlement system in the sixth millennium cal. BC. Previous evidence suggested that small hamlets or farmsteads may have characterized this settlement system, as represented at Tabaqat al-Bûma. Recent excavations at a site downstream, al-Basatîn, have revealed evidence for a settlement that was par…
Early Bronze I Occupation at al-Basatîn, in Wadi Ziqlab, Northern Jordan
Excavations at al-Basatîn in Wadi Ziqlab, northern Jordan, have recovered evidence for an EB I occupation at the site, in addition to strata dating to the Late Neolithic and Classical periods. Artifacts and a series of radiocarbon assays indicate this occupation dates to the early EB I. Analyses of the pottery, stone tools, and faunal remains suggest the site was a small, perhaps somewhat isolated, farmstead that was engaged in a variety of domes…
Maya Zooarchaeology
Activity space environment and dietary and physical activity behaviors
Not meant to last
Discussions of the emergence of pottery have often focused on the development of durable vessels among sedentary societies. However, there is increasing appreciation of the fact that early pottery was sometimes used by mobile groups, such as Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers in East Asia and perhaps Late Neolithic pastoral nomads in the Near East. Pottery that was not intended to have a long use-life, i.e. disposable pottery, could have been used…
Earliest evidence for the use of pottery
Bridging the Boreal Forest
This article examines Siberia's increasingly important role in the study of the emergence of pottery across northern Eurasia. The world's earliest pottery comes from Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherer sites in East Asia. This material is typically seen as disconnected from later pottery traditions in Europe, which are generally associated with sedentary farmers. However, new evidence suggests that Asian and European pottery traditions may be linked…
Late Neolithic Pottery and Ambiguous Symbols in the Southern Levant
Compared to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB), evidence for potentially symbolic imagery is rare in the Late Neolithic of the Southern Levant, consisting primarily of figurines and decorated pottery. While the symbolic roles of fi gurines have occasionally been discussed, studies of decorated pottery have usually focused on developing chronologies or defirning the boundaries of archaeological cultures. In an attempt to better understand pottery …
Modeling Spatial Innovation Diffusion from Radiocarbon Dates and Regression Residuals
This article introduces a method of exploratory analysis of the geographical factors influencing large-scale innovation diffusion, and illustrates its application to the case of early pottery dispersal in the Old World. Regression techniques are used to identify broad-scale spatiotemporal trends in the innovation's first occurrence, and regression residuals are then analyzed to identify geographical variation (climate, biomes) that may have influ…
Specialized Processing of Aquatic Resources in Prehistoric Alaskan Pottery? A Lipid-Residue Analysis of Ceramic Sherds from the Thule-Period Site of Nunalleq, Alaska
Largely missing from the debate surrounding the use of pottery among arctic and subarctic hunter-gatherers are site-based biomolecular studies of vessel contents. This study used lipid-residue analysis to elucidate vessel function at Nunalleq (GDN-248), a late Thule-period coastal village site in the Yup’ik area of Western Alaska. In total, 31 pottery sherds and five soil samples were analyzed using gas chromatography and/or gas chromatography–ma…
Pottery Invention and Innovation in East Asia and the Near East
The invention of ceramic objects made from fire-hardened clay represents an important and early step in the development of pyrotechnology. This paper examines pottery invention and innovation by hunter-gatherers in East Asia and by farmers in the Near East to examine how prehistoric communities in different socio-economic systems came to rely heavily on fired-clay containers. Drawing on advances in archaeological science, it examines from a compa…
Ancient lipids document continuity in the use of early hunter–gatherer pottery through 9,000 years of Japanese prehistory
Significance Pottery has had a central role in human society for many millennia, but the reasons for the emergence and spread of this technology are poorly understood. First invented by groups of hunter–gatherers living in East Asia during the last glacial period, production only began to flourish with rising global temperatures in the Holocene, but the reasons for its uptake and spread are unknown. Through chemical analysis of their contents, we…
A comparative perspective on the ‘western’ and ‘eastern’ Neolithics of Eurasia
Modelling the diffusion of pottery technologies across Afro-Eurasia
Exploring the emergence of an 'Aquatic' Neolithic in the Russian Far East
Walnuts, salmon and sika deer
The emergence of ceramics in Southwest Asia
Disaster, survival and recovery
Archaeologists have traditionally framed the impacts of natural disasters in terms of societal collapse versus cultural resilience. The 7.3ka cal BP Kikai-Akahoya (K-Ah) ‘super-eruption’ in south-western Japan was among the largest volcanic events of the Holocene. Here, the authors deploy a multi-proxy approach to examine how K-Ah devastated Tanegashima Island. While local Jōmon populations were annihilated, surrounding communities survived and e…
Geography (19 works) · Archaeology (18 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (18 works) · Pottery (15 works) · History (13 works) · Ancient history (9 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (9 works) · History (8 works) · Prehistory (7 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (6 works)