Handmade burnished ware in Late Bronze Age Greece and its makers
This study focuses on the idiosyncratic type of pottery called Handmade Burnished Ware (HBW) which appears in the Eastern Mediterranean and more particularly in the Mycenaean area during the 13th-12th centuries BC. It includes my own in corpore study of published and unpublished material from various sites in the Aegean region, as well as previously unstudied material from Mycenae itself. A major part of the study is devoted to a detailed definition of the chronological, geographical and depositional contexts of HBW, of its shapes and its varieties, in terms both of fabric and manufacture. This analysis was a necessary prerequisite to my goals of understanding the origin(s) and distribution of this pottery, of determining whether it is one ware or several similar ones and of understanding its role and significance in the social, economic and historical contexts in which it appeared. I conclude that this group of pottery is a cultural marker for the presence of a small foreign population who produced these vessels and were living amongst the local population already during the Mycenaean Palatial (LH IIIB) period but also in the following phase (LH IIIC), after the major destructions. The close relationship
Romanos, Chloe Lea
CC Archaeology ; D051 Ancient History ; DF Greece
Handmade burnished ware in Late Bronze Age Greece and its makers. This study focuses on the idiosyncratic type of pottery called Handmade Burnished Ware (HBW) which appears in the Eastern Mediterranean and more particularly in the Mycenaean area during the 13th-12th centuries BC. It includes my own in corpore study of published and unpublished material from various sites in the Aegean region, as well as previously unstudied material from Mycenae itself. A major part of the study is devoted to a detailed definition of the chronological, geographical and depositional contexts of HBW, of its shapes and its varieties, in terms both of fabric and manufacture. This analysis was a necessary prerequisite to my goals of understanding the origin(s) and distribution of this pottery, of determining whether it is one ware or several similar ones and of understanding its role and significance in the social, economic and historical contexts in which it appeared. I conclude that this group of pottery is a cultural marker for the presence of a small foreign population who produced these vessels and were living amongst the local population already during the Mycenaean Palatial (LH IIIB) period but also in the following phase (LH IIIC), after the major destructions. The close relationship
handmade ware late_bronze_age greece maker study_focus idiosyncratic type pottery call handmade ware appear eastern_mediterranean particularly mycenaean area th__century include study publish_unpublished material various site aegean region well previously_unstudied material itself major_part study devote detailed definition chronological_geographical depositional_context shape variety term fabric manufacture analysis necessary prerequisite goal origin distribution pottery determine_whether ware several similar role significance social_economic historical_context appear conclude group pottery cultural_marker presence small foreign population produce vessel live amongst local_population already mycenaean palatial iiib period also follow phase iiic major destruction close_relationship