Ugly ware! Technological and Cultural Interaction in Europe between Iron Age and Romanisation

Abstrakt

This conference addresses a group of domestic pottery classes characterised by handmade or throwing manufacture, low firing temperatures, and a spectrum of decorations including incisions, fingernail impressions, and plastic techniques. Similar pots with recurrent decorations are known in northern Italy, in France, and in central Europe, and traditionally linked with the spread of the La Tène culture, until (and beyond!) the so-called 'Romanization' process.

The main research issues we want to explore their cultural definition, chronology, classification and technology, and through them also interaction and mobility.