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Ceramic wares and agency. Evidence for changing markets, changing practices or changing tastes in the 2nd-1st c. BCE Eastern Adriatic?

In the last centuries BCE both coasts of the Adriatic Sea were characterised by increased presence of various classes of fine wares, both of local production and imported. Political upheavals, market shifts and seaborne connectivity significantly expanded as Roman commercial interests spread along and across the Mare Superum, just as local consumption and appropriation practices created a different regional picture for each segment of both Adriatic coasts. This paper will attempt to offer an up-to- date assessment of the fine wares and shapes present on the Eastern Adriatic, following their development through the advanced 2nd and into the 1st c. BCE as well as present challenges and several methodological issues in their study. In pursue of provenance of wares and particularities of local and micro-regional functional and typological repertoires, contextualized though different aspects of social practices in daily life - from setting tables and dining, to funerary customs and religious practices - the available evidence/assemblages from settlement sites, be it urban or rural, i.e. places of household use, necropolises, and sanctuaries of Eastern Adriatic region will be examined. This will give way to insights into the changes/continuity of the localized nature of insular and coastal consumption practices, observed within their cultural context, and explore aspects of introduction of new production technology, market shifts and the degree of integration within a common Eastern Adriatic ceramic koiné, if one ever did emerge.

Eastern Adriatic ; 2-1 c. BCE ; finewares

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