The pottery industries of the Roman East : craft communities and working practices

1. Verfasser: Murphy, Elizabeth A.,
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Ausgabe: First edition.
Umfang/Format: xv, 247 pages
ISBN: 978-1-00-951460-6
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Title page
  • Imprints page
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Chapter One Introduction
  • Social History and Labor
  • Why Potters?
  • The Archaeology of Pottery Workshops
  • Ceramic Workshop Studies
  • Pottery Studies
  • Material Culture Studies of Pottery
  • Scope: Defining Ceramic Industries
  • Geographic Parameters
  • Chronology
  • Challenges and Biases
  • Chapter Objectives and Organization
  • Chapter Two Workshops: Models versus Practice
  • Production Organization Models and Alternative Arrangements
  • Complicating the Model
  • Modelling Resource Procurement
  • Complicating the Model: Cultural Taskscapes
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter Three Process, People, and Working Conditions
  • Similar Goods, Divergent Local Processes
  • Contextualizing Work Process
  • Putting Labor to Production Task
  • Seasonality
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter Four Cultural Practices and Ritual Lives of Potters in the Workshop
  • Ceramicist Workgroups
  • Who Were These Potters?
  • Individuals and Their Profession: Makers and Their Tools
  • Ritualized Craft, Ritual Spaces?
  • The Afterlives of Workshops: Places of Burial
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter Five Potting Traditions, Craft Learning, and Product Innovation
  • Socially Understanding Traditions
  • Tracking Innovation
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter Six Socially Embedded Technologies and Local Technological Styles
  • Kiln Design Variability across the Region
  • Identifying Technological Designers
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter Seven Internal Social Dynamics of Industry Clusters: Cooperation and Competition
  • Nucleated Workshops in the Eastern Provinces
  • Identifying Collaborative Practices within Nucleated Workshops
  • Conflict and Competition
  • Mediation Measures
  • Conclusion.
  • Chapter Eight Urban Industry, Topographies, and Community Relations
  • Naming Conventions and Local Industry Topographies
  • Workshop Structures: Architectural Vernacular?
  • Industry Status and Visibility
  • Location of Production: Tension between Push-and-Pull Factors
  • Pull Factors: Urban Populations as Regular Consumers
  • Push Factors Influencing Location of Production
  • Urban Neighborly Relations
  • Shifting Industrial Cityscapes over Time: Long-Term Effects of Push-and-Pull Factors
  • Late Antique Cities and Urban Industry
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter Nine Crafting Communities: Some Final Thoughts on the Social Experience of Roman Workshops
  • Tracing Relationships
  • Final Note
  • Glossary of Specialized Potting Terms
  • Bibliography
  • Index.