This review article examines seventy years of research and methodological approaches to the analysis of Mesolithic and Neolithic pottery in Sudan. It begins with the studies done by A. J. Arkell at the end of the 1940s, leading to the definition of the Khartoum Mesolithic and Khartoum Neolithic ceramic traditions. The article then discusses the application of the concepts of ware, fabric, decorative technique, and chaîne opératoire to the analysis of pottery and the use of new classification tools and archaeometric methodologies. The implication of the concepts of cultural encounter and the communicative role of material culture for ceramic studies and the insights that ceramics can provide for understanding the interrelationships between humans and the landscape are also discussed.

这篇评论文章探讨了苏丹对中石器时代和新石器时代陶器分析的七十年研究和方法论方法。它始于1940年代末AJ Arkell进行的研究，得出了喀土穆中石器时代和喀土穆新石器时代陶瓷传统的定义。然后，本文讨论了商品，织物，装饰技术和Chaîneopératoire的概念在陶器分析中的应用以及新分类工具和考古方法的使用。还讨论了文化相遇概念的涵义和物质文化在陶瓷研究中的传播作用，以及陶瓷可以为理解人类与景观之间的相互关系提供的见解。