engleski

From pottery production to productive landscapes: a glimpse into the rural economy of ancient Liburnia (eastern Adriatic, Croatia)

In recent years research on Roman pottery production in the province of Dalmatia has advanced substantially thanks to a multidisciplinary approach undertaken at several sites where pottery workshops or kilns of early Roman date have been discovered. A varied array of data has thus been collected, in particular in the region of northern Liburnia, informing us on aspects spanning from natural resources exploitation to the organisation of the rural countryside. With this contribution, and starting from the available archaeological data on both workshops and their products, and integrating them with various multidisciplinary inputs, a glimpse into the productive landscapes of northern Liburnia will be attempted. In fact, what seems to be emerging are vibrant rural areas with a planned, diversified and probably lucrative economy aimed at fulfilling not only local, but also regional, and possibly, extra-regional markets.

pottery production ; Roman rural economy ; landscape

nije evidentirano