Uomini e "cocci": i contesti ceramologici del Quartiere Bizantino del Pythion in una prospettiva antropologica

Authors

  • Enrico Zanini University of Siena

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-4797/496

Keywords:

Gortyn, Crete, Pottery, Late Antiquity, Early Byzantium, Anthropology, Refuses, Daily life

Abstract

The excavation in the so called Byzantine District near the Pythion shrine at Gortyn (Crete) brought to light a number of ceramic assemblages that deserve to be investigated not only to get a date or to study the economic processes of production and distribution of pottery. They can be investigated under an anthropological perspective too, as indicators of complex human behavior in that particular context of space/time. From this point of view, the potsherds can provide relevant informations about the ways of urban life in the district, the disposal of solid urban refuses and the natural catastrophes as element of transformation of urban fabric in Late Antique and Early Byzantine age.

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Author Biography

Enrico Zanini, University of Siena

Enrico Zanini teaches Methodology of Archaeological Research and Late Antique Archaeology in the University of Siena. He as directed archaeological digs and research both in Italy and abroad, being now the director of the research project on the s.c. Byzantine District near the Pythion Shrine in Gortyn (Crete). His research interest focuses on urban archaeology, on late antique and early byzantine archaeology in Italy and in the Mediterranean, on the application of new technologies to the archaeological research, and on the theoretical approach to methods and processes in the archaeological investigation. He is author, inter alia, of the books Introduzione all'archeologia bizantina (Roma 1994) and Le Italie bizantine (Bari 1998).

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Published

2010-03-10

Issue

No. 4 (2009)

Section

PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE: The Pottery of Gortyn (Crete), ed. by G. Bejor and E. Panero. Milan, 17th June 2009