Handmade Pottery Traditions and Early Iron Age. La Fonteta (Alicante, Spain)
The sample studied includes 36 handmade ceramics unearthed during the 2018-2019 excavation season at the Phoenician colony of La Fonteta (Alicante, Spain), a settlement which represents a newly constructed architectural complex dating approximately from the late 8th to the late 6th century BCE. The...
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| Tipo de recurso: | conjunto de datos |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya (CSUC) |
| Repositorio: | CORA.Repositori de Dades de Recerca |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:dnet:cora.rdr____::62142a895a1a64524f2ef6cf9f45027a |
| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.34810/DATA1096 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Arts and Humanities Archaeometry Ceramics WD-XRF PXRD Early Iron Age Phoenician colony |
| Sumario: | The sample studied includes 36 handmade ceramics unearthed during the 2018-2019 excavation season at the Phoenician colony of La Fonteta (Alicante, Spain), a settlement which represents a newly constructed architectural complex dating approximately from the late 8th to the late 6th century BCE. The archaeological context of the pieces was based on their assignment to the constructive phases identified. The sample includes 16 pieces from the early phase of La Fonteta, all from dumps, and 20 from the more recent series of occupations recovered from different phases of structure collapse and waste contexts. Additionally, 10 individuals from the nearby indigenous site of Peña Negra (9th-6th centuries BCE) were also included for comparison. Regarding formal and functional variety at La Fonteta, a bulk of coarse cooking ware, bowls, storage vessels, and a few examples of burnished tableware ceramics, including a finely crafted carinated bowl, were analysed. The low representation of this latter production reflects the reality of the settlement. Finally, based on the observation of the pieces, we attempted to select a good number of pastes considered to be local due to their abundance in the archaeological record and the exhibition of characteristic traits such as buff-coloured pastes and coarse calcareous inclusions, as well as other individuals considered imported (characterised by mica-rich red to dark coloured pastes) or underrepresented in the research carried out at the site so far. |
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