Pottery as proxy of diet change in Late Antique Campania
- Title
- Pottery as proxy of diet change in Late Antique Campania
- Editor(s)
- Gürtekin-Demir, Gül
- Cevizoğlu, Hüseyin
- Polat, Yasemin
- Polat, Gürcan
- Date
- 2015
- Is Part Of
- Keramos, Ceramics: A Cultural Approach, Proceedings of the First International Conference at Ege University (Izmir 2011)
- Pages
- 218-228, 324
- Language
- eng
- Publisher
- Bilgin Kültür Sanat Yayınları
- Place Published
- Kızılay-Ankara,
- ISBN
- 978-605-85730-8-6
- Abstract
- In recent contributions Paul Arthur studied the spread of open cooking vessels found around the Mediterranean basin in the fifth and sixth centuries AD, connecting these with the hypothetical transition to a sheep/goat-dominated diet. This article tests the theory against the dataset from a site in Pollena Trocchia on the northern slopes of Mt. Vesuvius. In order to understand the prevailing cooking practices, potsherds are first quantified using several methods, then rearranged by function and divided into the categories of cooking ware and tableware, and subsequently also sorted by shape. The proportions of various shapes reveal prevalence of pots used for semi-liquid and stewed food over those used for braising, as well as of bowls over dishes. In its last part, this article compares the faunal assemblage from Pollena Trocchia with other Late Antique sites in Italy, and proposes an alternative interpretation for the spread of open cooking vessels.
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