This paper reports the results of forming processes used in pottery manufacture at La Cueva de El Toro (Málaga, Spain) during the Early Neolithic (5280–4780 cal. BCE). La Cueva de El Toro is one of the most important sites of reference on the southern Iberian Peninsula for providing extensive and systematised data on early farming practices. The identification of manufacturing traces on pottery has enabled the assessment of the variability of forming techniques used by the communities of herders that seasonally inhabited the cave during the Early Neolithic. Forming processes were also compared with characteristic features of pottery products (typology, decorations) that are representative of the first pottery production in this area. Furthermore, this study provides new insights into the distribution of the first pot-forming processes in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, which suggest the use of similar techniques to the forming-sequences documented at other Early Neolithic sites (the use of coils and circular patches) and other forming processes (moulding process and the use of discs) which are still unknown in the Western Mediterranean.

本文报告了新石器时代早期（公元前5280年至4780年）在La Cueva de El Toro（西班牙马拉加）的陶器制造过程中使用的成形工艺的结果。拉库瓦·德·埃尔·托罗（La Cueva de El Toro）是伊比利亚南部半岛上最重要的参考站点之一，可提供有关早期农业实践的广泛而系统的数据。对陶器制造痕迹的识别使得能够评估新石器时代早期在季节性居住于该洞穴的牧民社区所使用的成形技术的可变性。还比较了成型过程与代表该地区首批陶器生产的陶器产品的典型特征（类型，装饰）。此外，