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Distribution possibilities and transport infrastructure in northern Dalmatia’s pottery workshops: evidence and problems

Within the various factors that influence the choice of location for setting up craft activity, distribution possibilities are among the most important, especially if the workshop is meant to market its products to a wider consumer area. On the other hand, the same infrastructure could have been used to source raw materials needed for production from more or less distant locations. In the case of pottery and ceramics production, distribution possibilities are crucial for marketing both ceramics as a primary product as well as vessels meant to contain and distribute foodstuff. This is particularly true for larger workshops producing at an almost industrial scale, as well as those set up within larger rural estates. In this contribution the distribution possibilities and transport infrastructure of northern Dalmatia’s pottery workshops will be analyzed, combining landscape features, on-site evidence and the so far identified distribution patterns, in an attempt to determine how and if it influenced the choice of location. Drawing on examples from other regions, we will attempt to compare typologically diverse productive sites in the aspect of transportation infrastructure, both land and maritime, and the role it had in production organization. A wider implication of this study is to try to assess the role various transport methods had in products distribution in relation to the overall regional consumption pattern.

Pottery workshop ; transport infrastructure ; products distribution

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