Greek Iron Age Pottery in the Mediterranean World

Tracing Provenance and Socioeconomic Ties

Stefanos Gimatzidis

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781009474801
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: Social Sciences

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 Indigenous 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 macro-historical approach to the topic through a systematic survey of early Greek pottery production, exchange, and consumption, the volume also provides a micro-history 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 call into question established narratives about Greek and Phoenician migration.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• List of Abbreviations
• One Introduction to the Analysis of Greek Iron Age Pottery in the Mediterranean World
• Two Greek Iron Age Pottery in the Mediterranean World: Provenance Studies by Neutron Activation Analysis
• Three Greek Iron Age Pottery in the Mediterranean World: Provenance Studies of the Earliest Aegean Transport Amphoras, K-22 Ware, and Other Geometric Ceramics
• Four The Social Context of Pottery Production, Exchange and Consumption in the Northern Aegean
• Five Geometric Pottery Production and Consumption in the Balkan Hinterland: Patterns of Ceramic Technology Transfer in the Early Iron Age
• Six The Aegean Connection of East Locris: Exchange of Protogeometric Transport Amphoras and Other Ceramic Wares at Elateia and Kynos
• Seven Early Iron Age Klazomenai: The Evidence from Neutron Activation Analysis
• Eight The Earliest Greek Colonisation in Campania: Pottery from Kyme, Pithekoussai and the Sarno Valley in the Light of Neutron Activation Analysis
• Nine Late Geometric and Orientalising Pottery from Sicilian Naxos in Its Context
• Ten Early Greek Pottery on the Coast of Málaga, Andalusia, Spain: Feasting, Cultural Contacts and Trade in the Phoenician West
• Eleven Consumption of Geometric and Archaic Greek Pottery in the Emporion of Huelva (Tartessos, South-Western Spain)
• Twelve Greek Geometric Ceramics from Phoenician Utica: The Closed Context of Well 20017
• Thirteen The Greek Geometric Pottery from the Tunisian Excavations at Utica
• Fourteen Early Iron Age Greek Pottery at Sidon: The Ritual Context of Consumption
• Fifteen The Role of Aegean Imports and Aegeanizing Wares in the Phoenician Cemetery of al-Bass, Tyre
• Sixteen Concluding Remarks on Early Greek Pottery Production, Exchange and Consumption Overseas
• Catalogue of the NAA Samples and Results
• Appendix
• Index