The main concern of this study is pottery that could be found over wide parts in large areas from prehistoric periods to the current era. The wide distribution of these potteries is usually attributed to nomads, trade, and imitation. They followed similar grammatical codes in terms of technological style and appearance, which was interpreted as ‘ceramic tradition’. In this study, I want to examine the distribution of these potteries from another point of view. Furthermore, I want to explore mobilities and pottery productions and different forms of mobility, which played a role in the production, distribution, and consumption of pottery that were so far neglected. Women organize the whole process of pottery production in Kurdistan, and women potters named Howager ( )هـه ورگـرare scattered all over this land and make pottery. Some of these women are sedentary and produce pottery for their villages and the surrounding area, but others are mobile and move to the surrounding villages for part of the year to produce ceramics. These potters often come from other villages after their marriage. When a woman moves to her husband’s compound in his father’s village, she brings with herself what she has learned, including pottery styles, which lead to the wide distribution of different styles. This research is about an ethnoarchaeological study of pottery production in the West of Iran and the entanglements of humans, pottery-making, and mobility. Iranian Kurdistan was studied as a case study in its western, eastern, and central parts. Abstrac
