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This volume was derived from the twenty-first annual Theoretical
Roman Archaeology Conference, which took place at the University of
Newcastle (14-17 April 2011).
The Atlantic Seaboard has attracted increasing interest as a zone
of economic complexity and social connection during Late Antiquity
and the early medieval period. A surge in archaeological and, in
particular, ceramic research emerging from this region over the
last decade has demonstrated the need for new models of exchange
between the Mediterranean and Atlantic, and for new understandings
of links between sites along the Western littoral of Europe.
Ceramics and Atlantic Connections: Late Roman and Early Medieval
Imported Pottery on the Atlantic Seaboard stems from the Ceramics
and Atlantic Connections symposium, hosted by the School of
History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University, in March
2014. This represents the first international workshop to consider
late Roman to early medieval pottery from across the Atlantic
Seaboard. Reflecting the wide geographical scope of the original
presentations by the invited speakers, these nine articles from
ceramic specialists and archaeologists working across the Atlantic
region, cover western Britain, Ireland, western France, north-west
Spain and Portugal. The principal focus is the pottery of
Mediterranean origin which was imported into the Atlantic,
particularly East Mediterranean and North African amphorae and
red-slipped finewares (African Red Slip and Late Roman C and D), as
well as ceramics of Atlantic production which had widespread
distributions, including Gaulish Derivees-de-Sigillees
Paleochretiennes Atlantique/DSPA, ceramique a l'eponge' and
'E-ware'. Following the aims of the Newcastle symposium, the papers
examine the chronologies and relative distributions of these wares
and associated products, and consider the compositions of key
Atlantic assemblages, revealing new insights into the networks of
exchange linking these regions between c. 400-700 AD. This
broad-scale exploration of ceramic patterns, together with an
examination of associated artefactual, archaeological and textual
evidence for maritime exchange, provides a window into the
political, economic, cultural and ecclesiastical ties that linked
the disparate regions of the Late Antique and early medieval
Atlantic. In this way, this volume presents a benchmark for current
understandings of ceramic exchange in the Atlantic Seaboard and
provides a foundation for future research on connectivity in this
zone.
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