Greek pottery is the most visible archaeological evidence of social and economic relations between the Aegean and the Mediterranean during the Iron Age. This book presents a holistic study of the earliest Greek pottery exchanged in Greek, Phoenician, and other native Mediterranean cultural contexts from multidisciplinary perspectives.
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 analysis of 362 Protogeometric and Geometric ceramic and clay samples, examined by means of neutron activation analysis, that Stefanos Gimatzidis obtained at 24 sites in 8 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.
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Interdisciplinary archaeological and archaeometric study of early Greek pottery as economic and cultural residue of Iron Age Mediterranean connectivity.
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
Yaar 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.
Stefanos Gimatzidis has led major archaeological projects in the Mediterranean as a senior researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, and has worked extensively in Greece, the central Balkans, Italy, Turkey, and Lebanon. He has authored and edited books and published further on Iron Age Mediterranean archaeology, archaeological methods, and theory.
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