A stone vessel is a hollow container, made of stone.
History
Stone mortars and pestles have been used by the Kebaran culture (the Levant with Sinai) from 22000 to 18000 BC to crush grains and other plant material. The Kebaran mortars that have been found are sculpted, slightly conical bowls of porous stone.[1]
The Plain of Jars is a megalithic archaeological landscape in Laos. It consists of thousands of stone jars scattered around the upland valleys and the lower foothills of the central plain of the Xiangkhoang Plateau. The jars are arranged in clusters ranging in number from one to several hundred.[2]
Stone vessels are among the commonest finds in the elite tombs of Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt.[3]
See also
References
- ^ Mellaart, James (1976), Neolithic of the Near East (Macmillan Publishers)
- ^ Marwick, Ben; Bouasisengpaseuth, Bounheung (2017). "The History and Practice of Archaeology in Laos". Handbook of East and Southeast Asian Archaeology. Springer New York. pp. 89–95. doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-6521-2_8. ISBN 978-1-4939-6519-9. Archived from the original on 2019-07-06. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
- ^ https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-static/digitalegypt/stonevessels/stonevesselsarchaicegypt.html
Further reading
- Stone Vessels in the Near East during the Iron Age and the Persian Period, (c. 1200-330 BCE), Andrea Squitieri, 2017
- Stone Vessels and Values in the Bronze Age Mediterranean, Andrew Bevan, 2007
- Stone Vessels of the Cyclades in the Early Bronze Age, Pat Getz-Gentle, 1996, Penn State University Press