Concluding Remarks on Early Greek Pottery Production, Exchange and Consumption Overseas

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Sixteen - Concluding Remarks on Early Greek Pottery Production, Exchange and Consumption Overseas

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Stefanos Gimatzidis

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Austrian Archaeological Institute, Vienna

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This paper summarises some of the results obtained from Neutron Activation Analysis of early Greek pottery that was sampled in the Mediterranean. It provides an overview of analytical evidence about the provenance and geochemical clustering of major pottery wares such as the Protogeometric and Geomtric transport amporas and K-22 or common pottery types such as PSC, chevron, Thapsos and Aetos 666 bowls. Their historical implications include aspects of specialisation in pottery production, modes of technology transfer, appropriation and exchange of ‘colonial’ pottery types. Finally, this concluding chapter presents new insights into the economic and cultural relations among remote communities in the Mediterranean, and the chronological implications of our pottery analysis on the correlation of Phoenician and Greek migrations.

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consumption exchange Greek migration pottery production organisation

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Information: Greek Iron Age Pottery in the Mediterranean World
Tracing Provenance and Socioeconomic Ties
, pp. 476 - 496

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009474825.017 [Opens in a new window]

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Print publication year: 2024

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