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A fantastic book from an industrial furnace professor who had a long-time collaboration with an archaeologist. From first principles of how fire works, he explains the parameters of how different levels of pyrotechnology must have been used to produce pottery, quicklime, charcoal, and ultimately smelting metal.
Not quite neolithic farming, but it would give you the basics to take whatever fire technology level currently in use, and likely be able to produce better or new products. If you've seen the Primitive Technology youtube channel, the guy builds his own furnaces for producing a number of incredibly useful pottery items: roofing tiles and pots mainly. This book was apparently one of his major inspirations.
I've been looking for books on the details of neolithic farming, so I hope this question is fruitful for us both.
John recommends a furnace-making book he read for research for his channel
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The Mastery and Uses of Fire in Antiquity