Riflessioni intorno alla produzione e circolazione della ceramica nel basso adriatico
- Title
- Riflessioni intorno alla produzione e circolazione della ceramica nel basso adriatico
- Creator(s)
- Arthur, Paul
- Editor(s)
- Menichelli, Simonetta
- Santoro, Sara
- Pasquinucci, Marinella
- Guiducci, Gabriella
- Date
- 2010
- Is Part Of
- LRCW3. Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry
- Pages
- 79-88
- Language
- ita
- Publisher
- Archaeopress
- Place Published
- Oxford
- Abstract
- The last few years have witnessed an upsurge in archaeological and historical studies of the Adriatic, with the creation of a few major projects and an increase in analytical publications. Sometimes considered to be relatively marginal in the light of Roman political and economic development, the sea became ever more fundamental to late antique and medieval commercial geography with the establishment of the new capital at Constantinople and the gradual breakdown of the old Roman communication system and markets. With the eventual loss to the Empire of much of the Italian peninsula following the Lombard invasion in the late 6th century, the Adriatic developed as a preferential route linking the Aegean and the entire Byzantine world with northern Italy, the Rhine corridor, the north-western Balkans, and beyond. From the perspective of someone living and working at the entrance to the Adriatic, not far from the ports of Brindisi and Otranto, I intend to examine how the study of ceramics is helping us to understand the complex dynamics of changing relations between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. I hope to illustrate some of the things that have been achieved in recent years, as well as to indicate directions for future research.
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