Gauß / Kiriatzi Pottery Production and Supply at Bronze Age Kolonna, Aegina

An Integrated Archaeological and Scietific Study of a Ceramic Landscape
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-7001-7179-9
Verlag: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 65, 527 Seiten

Reihe: Denkschrift der Gesamtakademie

Aegina has long been recognised as a major production centre of a variety of widely exported ceramic containers not only in the relatively recent past but also in Classical antiquity and especially during the Middle and Late Bronze Age. Moreover, the prehistoric ceramic industry based on Aegina has become an increasingly important phenomenon in recent scholarship dealing with the rise of complex societies in the Aegean world during 2nd millennium BC. Such persistence on pottery production on Aegina through time renders obvious that a combination of factors, such as socio-economic, historical and geographical ones, as well as the locally available raw materials and the attraction of Aeginetan ceramics at other sites, must be taken into consideration in addressing the development of a specialized potting centre on the island.

This study is the first to undertake a comprehensive look at the Aeginetan ceramic industry during much of the Bronze Age (ca. 2500-1200 BC), aiming at shedding light upon the factors influencing transformations in potting traditions, and the growth and decline of a specialised pottery production centre on Aegina. Advocating a landscape approach, it concentrates not only on pottery production but also on supply and consumption of ceramic vessels on the island. The systematic stylistic study of the formal attributes of local products and imports at the site of Kolonna is combined with the investigation of their manufacturing technology and the compositional characterisation of their fabrics through petrographic and chemical analysis. This integrated archaeological and scientific examination of the pottery, together with research on the island’s resources, replication experiments and ethnoarchaeology, provides the ground for the reconstruction of the local potting traditions and the understanding variability observed within and across certain periods of the Bronze Age.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gauß, Walter

Kiriatzi, Evangelina

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;TABLE OF CONTENTS;6
2;ABBREVIATIONS USED IN TEXT AND TABLES;12
3;BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ABBREVIATIONS;14
4;VORWORT DES HERAUSGEBERS;16
5;ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS;18
6;SECTION A. SETTING THE AGENDA;20
7;SECTION B. THE MORPHOLOGICAL AND STYLISTIC STUDY OF POTTERY;32
8;SECTION C. POTTERY PRODUCTION AND IMPORTATION AT BRONZE AGE KOLONNA: THE CERAMIC FABRICS AND THE ISLAND’S LANDSCAPE;70
9;SECTION D. POTTERY TYPES AT KOLONNA (EBA III TO LBA): INTEGRATING MORPHOLOGICAL, TECHNOLOGICAL AND COMPOSITIONAL DATA;158
10;SECTION E. THE PRODUCTION AND CIRCULATION OF AEGINETAN POTTERY FROM EBA III TO THE END OF THE LBA: A SUMMARY;242
11;CATALOGUE;274
12;BIBLIOGRAPHY;352
13;TOPOGRAPHICAL INDEX;366
13.1;Achaia;366
13.2;Argolid 24, 25, 26, 27, 141, 142, 144, 145,;366
13.3;Asia Minor 175;366
13.4;Attica 175, 276, 278;366
13.5;Attica, Athens;366
13.6;Boeotia 25, 163, 172, 181, 183, 211, 213, 216,;366
13.7;Corinthia 144, 161, 164, 167, 169, 175, 177,;366
13.8;Crete 19, 32, 74, 145, 177, 178, 179, 180,;366
13.9;Melos 24, 27, 41, 140, 143, 160, 168, 179,;367
13.10;Cyclades/Kea 139, 140, 143, 177, 178, 184, 185,;367
13.11;Euboea 184, 242;367
13.12;Italy, southern 174, 175, 244;367
13.13;Kythera 28, 141, 144, 179, 187, 194, 198, 202,;367
13.14;Laconia 141, 175, 179, 224, 243;367
13.15;Libya/Eusperides 24 Lokris (east) 244;367
13.16;Megaris 177, 178;367
13.17;Messenia 74;367
13.18;CyprusPeloponnese 19, 141, 144, 145, 183, 184,;367
13.19;Peloponnese, north-eastern 19, 141, 144, 145, 184,;367
13.20;Phocis 24, 145;367
13.21;Phthiotis;367
13.22;Samos 168 Saronic Gulf/Aegina;367
13.23;Saronic Gulf/Methana 24, 25, 27, 246;367
13.24;Saronic Gulf/Salamis 25, 246;368
13.25;Sicily 175 Thessaly 184;368
14;INDEX OF POTTERYSTYLES;368
15;LIST OF TABLES;370
16;LIST OF FIGURES;372