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Four - The Social Context of Pottery Production, Exchange and Consumption in the Northern Aegean

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 May 2024

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Stefanos Gimatzidis
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Stefanos Gimatzidis
Stefanos Gimatzidis
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Austrian Archaeological Institute, Vienna
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This paper examines the economic and other social relations that emerged in the colonial landscape of the northern Aegean through a new approach to pottery production, exchange and consumption. Our analytical data about pottery origins allow a new reconstruction of the exchange networks between the northern and central Aegean. The chapter suggests that the gradual increase in non-local pottery use along the northern Aegean shores and certain changes in local pottery production cannot be taken as a result of any growing colonial agency. They are interpreted instead as the low residue of locally driven transformations in the economic organisation of the northern Aegean. The new analytical data support a recently expressed view that these advances represent a pull factor of migration from central Greece towards its so-called northern Aegean periphery.

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consumptionexchangeMacedoniaspecialisation in pottery production
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Greek Iron Age Pottery in the Mediterranean World
Tracing Provenance and Socioeconomic Ties
 , pp. 85 - 153
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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