Fredriksen, Per DitlefLindahl, Anders2026-03-032025-08Fredriksen, P.D. & Lindahl, A. 2025, 'Hinterland origins : a batch-study of the birth of a lost migration period ceramic technology in Scandinavia, AD 350-450', Oxford Journal of Archaeology, vol. 44, no. 5, pp. 325-350, doi : 10.1111/ojoa.12326.0262-5253 (print)1468-0092 (online)10.1111/ojoa.12326http://hdl.handle.net/2263/108720APPENDIX 1. Map showing the location of all samples in this study. APPENDIX 2. List of all samples in this study, organized according to county. Visible main mineral inclusions are given according to standard museum nomenclature in Norwegian: A = asbestos, K = soapstone (No. kleberstein), S = sand.While sought for over a century, the birth of the distinctive bucket-shaped ceramic technology on the Scandinavian Peninsula has been overshadowed by its enigmatic senescence or ‘death’ in the sixth century AD. This omnipresent Migration Period container was in use for two centuries, from the mid-fourth to the mid-sixth centuries AD, spreading quickly and widely from the western region to the east and the far north. Its second century is better understood than the first, primarily because of the high-resolution chronology for the decades after AD 450, due to entanglements with Style I metalworking and the well-documented demise of both technologies in the wake of the AD 536–41 climatic events. But where and how did the technology emerge and spread? This comprehensive batch-study traces the origins and unravels the connectivity of the knowledge networks responsible for paste-recipes during the first century bucket-shaped technology (c.AD 350–450). Using a combined macroscopic and handheld-XRF approach that allows for large-scale analysis with high chronological resolution, we present a contextually grounded synthesis that relates the technological development to emerging nodal points of societal power during the fifth century and locates the origins of recipes in their clay- and mineral-rich hinterlands.en© 2025 University of Oxford. This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article : 'Hinterland origins : a batch-study of the birth of a lost migration period ceramic technology in Scandinavia, AD 350-450', Oxford Journal of Archaeology, vol. 44, no. 5, pp. 325-350, 2025, doi : 10.1111/ojoa.12326. The definite version is available at : https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14680092.ScandinaviaCeramic technologyPostprint Article