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Figures 107-149 | Figures 1-26 | Figures 27-50 | SECTION E. THE PRODUCTION AND CIRCULATION OF AEGINETAN POTTERY FROM EBA III TO THE END OF THE LBA: A SUMMARY (With a contribution by B. Lis) | Acknowledgements | SECTION C. POTTERY PRODUCTION AND IMPORTATION AT BRONZE AGE KOLONNA: THE CERAMIC FABRICS AND THE ISLAND&amp;#x2019;S LANDSCAPE | CATALOGUE | Topographical Index, Index of Potterysty, List of Tables, List of Figures | Bibliography | APPENDIX 1. SAMPLES OF BRONZE AGE POTTERY FROM KOLONNA: SUMMARY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL, PETROGRAPHIC AND CHEMICAL EVIDENCE | Figures 81-106 | SECTION B. THE MORPHOLOGICAL AND STYLISTIC STUDY OF POTTERY | SECTION D. POTTERY TYPES AT KOLONNA (EBA III TO LBA): INTEGRATING MORPHOLOGICAL, TECHNOLOGICAL AND COMPOSITIONAL DATA | APPENDIX 2. SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY OF AEGINETAN POTTERY SAMPLES FROM KOLONNA | Figures 51-80 | SECTION A. SETTING THE AGENDA (With a contribution by Ian K.Whitbread) | Vorwort des Herausgebers

Aegina has long been recognised as a major production centre of a variety of widely exported ceramic containers not only in the relatively recent past but also in Classical antiquity and especially during the Middle and Late Bronze Age. Moreover, the prehistoric ceramic industry based on Aegina has become an increasingly important phenomenon in recent scholarship dealing with the rise of complex societies in the Aegean world during 2nd millennium BC. Such persistence on pottery production on Aegina through time renders obvious that a combination of factors, such as socio-economic, historical and geographical ones, as well as the locally available raw materials and the attraction of Aeginetan ceramics at other sites, must be taken into consideration in addressing the development of a specialized potting centre on the island.



This study is the first to undertake a comprehensive look at the Aeginetan ceramic industry during much of the Bronze Age (ca. 2500-1200 BC), aiming at shedding light upon the factors influencing transformations in potting traditions, and the growth and decline of a specialised pottery production centre on Aegina. Advocating a landscape approach, it concentrates not only on pottery production but also on supply and consumption of ceramic vessels on the island. The systematic stylistic study of the formal attributes of local products and imports at the site of Kolonna is combined with the investigation of their manufacturing technology and the compositional characterisation of their fabrics through petrographic and chemical analysis. This integrated archaeological and scientific examination of the pottery, together with research on the island’s resources, replication experiments and ethnoarchaeology, provides the ground for the reconstruction of the local potting traditions and the understanding variability observed within and across certain periods of the Bronze Age. 

An Integrated Archaeological and Scientific Study of a Ceramic Landscape

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Evangelia Kiriatzi

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Pottery Production and Supply at Bronze Age Kolonna, Aegina