Explaining Change in the Matt-Painted Pottery of Southern Italy: Cultural and social explanations for ceramic development from the 11th to the 4th centuries B.C.: Cultural and social explanations for ceramic development from the 11th to the 4th centuries

This book examins native Matt-Painted pottery from Iron Age and Classical Southern Italy within the context of native social change and of the relationship between the Greeks and the natives. This is the first attempt to move away from a purely typological approach to Matt-Painted pottery and to study it within its social context, casting light upon ceramic innovation and wider social development. Front Cover Title Page Copyright TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS DEDICATION CHAPTER ONE. INTRODUCTION CHAPTER TWO. AN OUTLINE OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF SOUTHERN ITALY CHAPTER THREE. A SUMMARY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MATT-PAINTED POTTERY OF SOUTHERN ITALY FROM THE 11TH TO THE 4TH CENTURIES BC CHAPTER FOUR. REASONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MATT-PAINTED TRADITION, AND A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ABSOLUTE DATING OF SOUTH ITALIAN EARLY GEOMETRIC CHAPTER FIVE. THE FUNCTION OF THE MATT-PAINTED WARES CHAPTER SIX. REGIONAL STYLES AND CULTURAL IDENTITY CHAPTER SEVEN. THE DECLINE OF REGIONAL STYLISTIC COHERENCY AND THE ROLE OF CENTRALISATION. THE CONTEMPORANEOUS DEVELOPMENT OF WHEEL-MADE PAINTED POTTERY AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THE MATT-PAINTED WARES CHAPTER EIGHT. ALTERNATIVE PATTERNS OF DEVELOPMENT IN THE MATT-PAINTED POTTERY OF NORTH APULIA CHAPTER NINE. AN ATTEMPT AT TERRITORIAL MAPPING BY MEANS OF THE CERAMIC EVIDENCE CHAPTER TEN. GENERAL SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX OF SOUTH ITALIAN SITES Edward Herring. 'index Of South Italian Sites': P. [251]-255. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 241-249).