Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant Awarded to Kevin Gibbs

A Wenner-Gren Foundation grant will enable Department of Archaeology researcher Kevin Gibbs to study early pottery in Japan.

Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow Dr. Kevin Gibbs was recently awarded a Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Post-PhD Research Grant for the project ‘The origins of pottery in Japan: production, use and environment’. When pottery first appeared in Japan around 15-16,000 years ago, it was made in a wide range of environments, from sub-Arctic tundra in the north to broad-leaf evergreen forest in the south. Kevin will undertake research in Japan to study how hunter-gatherers made, used and exchanged early pottery in different Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene environments, and will investigate how pottery may have changed from being a valuable prestige technology to a more functional technology geared towards everyday food production and storage tasks. Another phase of this project is funded by a British Academy Small Research Grant.

Well done Kevin!

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