Greek pottery was exported around the ancient world in vast
quantities over a period of several centuries. This book focuses on
the Greek pottery consumed by people in the western Mediterranean
and trans-Alpine Europe from 800-300 BCE, attempting to understand
the distribution of vases, and particularly the reasons why people
who were not Greek decided to acquire them. This new approach
includes discussion of the ways in which objects take on different
meanings in new contexts, the linkages between the consumption of
goods and identity construction, and the utility of objects for
signaling positive information about their owners to their
community. The study includes a database of almost 24,000 artifacts
from more than 230 sites in Portugal, Spain, France, Switzerland,
and Germany. This data was mapped and analyzed using geostatistical
techniques to reveal different patterns of consumption in different
places and at different times. The development of the new
approaches explored in this book has resulted in a shift away from
reliance on the preserved fragments of ancient Greek authors'
descriptions of western Europe, remains of monumental buildings,
and major artworks, and toward investigation of social life and
more prosaic forms of material culture. ADDITIONAL E-RESOURCES FOR
THIS BOOK ARE AVAILABLE:
https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/art_data/1/
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