La produzione della ceramica geometrica enotria nella Sibaritide durante l'etá del Ferro:Studio comparativo sulle tecnologie di foggiatura

This study investigates the production of Oenotrian Geometric pottery, also known as matt-painted pottery, during the Early Iron Age at three sites of the Sibaritide region in northern Calabria, Italy (Francavilla Marittima, Torre Mordillo and Castrovillari). The main purpose of the research was to identify the chaîne opératoire of this decorated pottery category, and to identify its modes of production through the application of macroscopic, microscopic and X-ray analyses. In this way a representative sample of the full range of shapes produced in the period between the second half of the 9th and half of the 7th centuries BC was investigated, taken from different functional contexts (domestic, funerary and ritual). The approach chosen allowed to determine various partly contemporary modes of production that over time evolved from handmade to wheel-turning manufacture. Based on these observations, the role of the geometric pottery production within the dynamics of the changing practical and social organization could be inferred as well as the distribution of specific productions within the Sibaritide and outside of it