Explaining Change in the Matt-Painted Pottery of Southern Italy: Cultural and social explanations for ceramic development from the 11th to the 4th cen

ISBN-13: 9780860548997 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 266 str.

Herring, Edward

Opis

A study of matt-painted pottery in the context of social and economic developments from the 11th to 4th centuries BC. Chapters cover the geographical, archaeological and historical background; summary of and reasons for Matt-Painted pottery development; functions of Matt-Painted ware; regional styles and cultural identity; the role of centralisation; contemporaneous development of Wheel-Made Painted pottery; alternative patterns of development in North Apulia; territorial mapping by ceramic evidence.

This book examins native Matt-Painted pottery from Iron Age and Classical Southern Italy within the context of native social change and of the relationship between the Greeks and the natives. This is the first attempt to move away from a purely typological approach to Matt-Painted pottery and to study it within its social context, casting light upon ceramic innovation and wider social development.