The development of Neolithic pottery technology in Eastern Jazira and the Zagros Mountains

The origins of pottery technology in Eastern Jazira and the Zagros Mountains can be seen as a process of several stages, from unfired clay and plaster vessels to the fully Washcloth ceramic technologies of the Proto-Hassuna period.This paper reviews this process and presents a technological analysis of Proto-Hassuna ceramics to investigate the relationships between the pottery traditions at sites in Ednberry Eastern Jazira and the western part of the Zagros Mountains.