Foreword

This publication is the welcome result of an interdisciplinary collaboration dating back to a workshop entitled ‘Mobilities and pottery productions: archaeological and anthropological perspectives’ that took place in 2015 at the University of Bern. As part of the research project ‘Mobilities, entanglements and transformations in Neolithic societies on the Swiss Plateau (3900-3500 BC)’ funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), researchers from various archaeological disciplines and from the field of anthropology, who study hand-built pottery, came together to attend the workshop. From the point of view of their individual fields of expertise they discussed the connections between the manufacture, distribution and use of pottery and different types of mobility in prehistoric and present-day societies.