Greek pottery is the most visible archaeological evidence of social and economic relations between the Aegean and the Mediterranean during the Iron Age, a period of intense mobility. This book presents a holistic study of the earliest Greek pottery exchanged in Greek, Phoenician, and other native Mediterranean cultural contexts from multidisciplinary perspectives. It offers an examination of 362 Protogeometric and Geometric ceramic and clay samples, analysed by Neutron Activation, that Stefanos Gimatzidis obtained in twenty-four sites and regions in eight countries. Bringing a macrohistorical approach to the topic through a systematic survey of early Greek pottery production, exchange, and consumption, the volume also provides a microhistory of selected ceramic assemblages analysed by a team of scholars who specialise in Classical, Near Eastern, and various Prehistoric archaeologies. The results of their collaborative archaeological and archaeometric studies challenge previous reconstructions of intercultural relations between the Aegean and the Mediterranean, and established narratives about Greek and Phoenician migration.
List of Contributors; Preface; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction to the analysis of Greek Iron Age pottery in the Mediterranean world Stefanos Gimatzidis; 2. Greek Iron Age pottery in the Mediterranean world: provenance studies by neutron activation analysis Stefanos Gimatzidis and Hans Mommsen; 3. Greek Iron Age pottery in the Mediterranean world: provenance studies of the earliest Aegean transport amphoras, K-22 ware, and other geometric ceramics Stefanos Gimatzidis; 4. The social context of pottery production, exchange and consumption in the northern Aegean Stefanos Gimatzidis; 5. Geometric pottery production and consumption in the Balkan hinterland: patterns of ceramic technology transfer in the early Iron Age Anelia Bozkova and Stefanos Gimatzidis; 6. The Aegean connection of East Locris: exchange of Protogeometric transport amphoras and other ceramic wares at Elateia and Kynos Sigrid Jalkotzy-Deger and Stefanos Gimatzidis; 7. Early Iron Age Klazomenai: the evidence from neutron activation analysis Rik Vaessen and Yaşar E. Ersoy; 8. The earliest Greek colonisation in Campania: pottery from Kyme, Pithekoussai and the Sarno Valley in the light of neutron activation analysis Francesca Mermati; 9. Late geometric and orientalising pottery from Sicilian Naxos in its context Maria Costanza Lentini; 10. Early Greek pottery on the coast of Málaga, Andalusia, Spain: feasting, cultural contacts and trade in the Phoenician West Eduardo García Alfonso; 11. Consumption of geometric and archaic Greek pottery in the Emporion of Huelva (Tartessos, south-western Spain) Fernando González de Canales, Jorge Llompart, and Aurelio Montaño; 12. Greek geometric ceramics from Phoenician Utica: the closed context of Well 20017 José Luis López Castro, Imed Ben Jerbania, Alfredo Mederos Martín, Víctor Martínez Hahnmüller, and Ahmed Ferjaoui; 13. The Greek geometric pottery from the Tunisian excavations at Utica Imed Ben Jerbania; 14. Early Iron Age Greek pottery at Sidon: the ritual context of consumption Stefanos Gimatzidis and Claude Doumet Serhal; 15. The role of Aegean imports and Aegeanizing wares in the Phoenician cemetery of al-Bass, Tyre Francisco J. Núñez; 16. Concluding remarks on early Greek pottery production, exchange and consumption overseas Stefanos Gimatzidis; Catalogue of the NAA samples and results; Appendix; Index.
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