Elymian regional interaction in Iron Age western Sicily: a preliminary neutron activation study of incised/impressed tablewares

Kolb, Michael; Speakman, Robert J.

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2005.01.003

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“…In the last 15 years, indigenous ceramics have been the subject of archaeometric studies aimed at identifying the production centres located in western Sicily (Kolb and Speakman 2005;Montana et al 2011a;Montana et al 2012). The chemical and mineralogical compositions of the clayey materials suitable for pottery production have already been published (Montana et al 2011b;Montana et al 2011c).…”

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The indigenous settlement of Monte Iato (western Sicily): an ethnoarchaeometric approach for outlining local Archaic ceramic productions

Montana

Polito

Kistler

et al. 2021

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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An ethnoarchaeometric approach has been followed to identify the textural and compositional characteristics of the ceramic pastes produced in ancient Iaitas/Ietas, an indigenous site located in western Sicily on Monte Iato, a few tens of kilometres from Palermo. This approach was primarily motivated by the lack of discovered Archaic kilns or production sites/workshops and the inability to identify reference groups. Raw clays were sampled in the territory of San Cipirello and San Giuseppe Iato (today’s municipalities both sited on the northern slopes of Monte Iato), together with representative historic tiles and bricks locally produced until fairly recently. Grain-size analysis and experimental firings were performed on the clay samples. A significant number of archaeological ceramic samples (incised and painted indigenous pottery dating back to the seventh–fifth centuries BCE) from stratigraphic excavations on Monte Iato, and hypothesized as local productions on a stylistic-morphological basis, was carefully selected for archaeometric analysis. This set of samples (90 in total, comprising raw clays, historic tiles/bricks and archaeological ceramics) underwent a combined chemical and mineralogical-petrographic analysis to identify any possible compositional matching. This approach enabled the identification of minero-petrographic and chemical markers pertinent to the indigenous Archaic pottery produced at Monte Iato, although no evidence of coeval ceramic kilns has been found so far. Local raw clay sources have been documented and some significant points of the chaîne opératoire adopted in antiquity have been noted (clay mixing and tempering practices). Attesting Monte Iato as a centre of ceramic production and defining both the microscopic fabric and the average composition of local pastes open up new perspectives in the complex issue concerning the production and regional circulation of incised and painted indigenous ceramics in Archaic Sicily.

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The indigenous settlement of Monte Iato (western Sicily): an ethnoarchaeometric approach for outlining local Archaic ceramic productions

Montana

Polito

Kistler

et al. 2021

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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“…For Spain, Aubet et al (1996) have argued that many communities failed to be integrated into the systems of eastern Mediterranean colonizers, sometimes resisting, sometimes simply disregarding them. New evidence points to high levels of internal trade between local Iron Age groups on Sicily, who display relatively light influences from neighboring Greek colonies, in what is usually considered to be a period where external trade contacts and colonial Greek impacts were overwhelmingly significant to indigenous people (Kolb and Speakman 2005;Leighton 2005). Similarly, numerous new studies describe evidence that the Greeks did not dominate local populations (Burgers 2005) but established egalitarian relations with locals (Fitzjohn 2007); some have discussed whether colonists were more influenced by their host cultures than by their own homelands (De Angelis 2003;Hall 2004).…”

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Unity and Diversity in the European Iron Age: Out of the Mists, Some Clarity?

Thurston

2009

J Archaeol Res

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While some researchers continue to focus fruitfully on traditional issues, in recent years new perspectives, some strongly revisionist, have developed within European Iron Age archaeology, moving it from a long-static state into a rapidly changing milieu. Studies of colonialism, imperialism, and interaction have undergone sequential shifts into new territory, while topics related to sacred activity, political apparatuses, and the ruler-subject relationship have undergone substantial reworking. Perspectives absent from earlier literature have emerged: gender, age, ethnicity, and identity, and interpretations employing theories of practice, agency, landscape, and embodiment have emerged, mirroring broader disciplinary shifts. An overarching trend sees Iron Age Europe as a series of interactive societies with both broad similarities and sharp regional, even local, differences, moving through time and ever-changing relationships, influences, and trajectories. The collision of traditional and revisionist scholarship has produced debate, some heated, but has improved and invigorated the field.

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“…Studies of this type have been conducted in a range of cultural contexts and geographic regions (e.g. [19,30,31,42,48,53,54]), and have resulted in a greater understanding of both technological practice and human interaction. Geochemical analysis was chosen here to help illuminate the following question: Did potters choose different raw material sources during the course of the Neolithic mirroring shifts in settlement locations?…”

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Testing technological practices: neutron activation analysis of neolithic ceramics from Valencia, Spain

McClure

Bernabeu

García

et al. 2006

Journal of Archaeological Science

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Elymian regional interaction in Iron Age western Sicily: a preliminary neutron activation study of incised/impressed tablewares

Cited by 12 publications

References 7 publications

The indigenous settlement of Monte Iato (western Sicily): an ethnoarchaeometric approach for outlining local Archaic ceramic productions

The indigenous settlement of Monte Iato (western Sicily): an ethnoarchaeometric approach for outlining local Archaic ceramic productions

Unity and Diversity in the European Iron Age: Out of the Mists, Some Clarity?

Testing technological practices: neutron activation analysis of neolithic ceramics from Valencia, Spain

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