Although we have been able to track how cultural innovations spread among farming populations in prehistoric Europe, we know relatively little about this among European hunter-gatherers. Dolbunova et al. use a range of techniques to shed light on how the making and use of pottery spread among early-to-mid-Holocene hunter-gatherers west of the Urals.
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Shennan, S. Pottery spread in ancient foragers. Nat Hum Behav 7, 169–170 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01492-7
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