Forming Identities: Technological Experimentation in Archaic Corinthian Workshops and the Origins of the Black Figure Pottery Style

Forming Identities: Technological Experimentation in Archaic Corinthian Workshops and the Origins of the Black Figure Pottery Style
ISBN-10
1407358189
ISBN-13
9781407358185
Category
Social Science
Pages
150
Language
English
Published
2021-08-31
Publisher
British Archaeological Reports (Oxford) Limited
Author
Emilio Rodríguez-Álvarez

Description

This book focuses on the manufacturingtechniques of Corinthian potters during the Archaic Period, as well as therelationships established with their natural environment. The results of thisresearch show that the advent of the Black Figure pottery style wasintrinsically related to the adoption by Corinthian potters of newmanufacturing techniques and recipes for their paints and slips. This change ofthe paint and gloss recipes required the use of new raw materials, which takesthe discussion on pottery production at the site from purely technical issuesto social and economic ones, such as access and control of these scarceresources or the relationships between potters and their local community. Thesignificance of this discovery also sheds new light upon the diversity of localstyles in Greece.

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