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  2. The City and Complexity: Volterra, Italy: Pottery production during the Hellenistic Etruscan period and the Late Roman to Late Antique period

The City and Complexity: Volterra, Italy: Pottery production during the Hellenistic Etruscan period and the Late Roman to Late Antique period

Rae Ostman 2004 © BAR Publishing
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Despite the great fascination that the collapse of past civilizations holds for the public, the process of decreasing social complexity has received surprisingly little attention from archaeologists, especially when compared to the voluminous research on increasing complexity. And most studies of the process have been oriented toward understanding complexity by seeing how it fails, not toward understanding how a different, "simpler" society emerged from a more complex society. But if there are specific motivations and particular processes for decreasing complexity — if "collapse" is a solution rather than a problem — then clearly there is much to be learned from examining the societies that develop during periods of seeming decline. This research study examines how one complex society reorganized to a relatively simple society, recognizing the simultaneously constructive and destructive aspects of the process. The study focuses on the developments during the late Roman Empire through late Antiquity, a time of decreasing social complexity in the ancient Mediterranean world beginning in the late 2nd and continuing to the mid 6th centuries AD, on the basis of a detailed archaeological study of one city and its territory, Volterra, in Tuscany, Italy.
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  • BAR pre-2020
  • BAR International Series pre-2020
ISBN(s)
  • 9781841716114 (paperback)
  • 9781407326689 (ebook)
BAR Number
  • S1251
Subject
  • Ceramics and Pottery Studies
  • Mediterranean
  • Classical and Hellenistic
  • Roman
  • Western Europe and Britain
  • Late Antiquity and Byzantium
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  • Front Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • List of Appendices
  • List of Plates
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1: THE RESEARCH PROJECT
  • CHAPTER 2: THE CASE STUDY OF VOLTERRA, ITALY
  • CHAPTER 3: QUANTIFICATION ANALYSIS
  • CHAPTER 4: POTTERY CATALOGUE
  • CHAPTER 5: FORMAL ANALYSIS
  • CHAPTER 6: FABRIC ANALYSIS
  • CHAPTER 7: TECHNOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
  • CHAPTER 8: MATERIAL CULTURE ANALYSIS
  • CHAPTER 9: CLAY SURVEY
  • CHAPTER 10: CLAY FIRING TEST AND FABRIC ANALYSIS
  • CHAPTER 11: SOIL CHARACTERIZATION TESTS
  • CHAPTER 12: CERAMIC STUDIES AND CLAY STUDIES
  • CHAPTER 13: THE LATE ROMAN TO LATE ANTIQUE TRANSFORMATION IN VOLTERRA
  • APPENDIX A: FORM NUMBERING SYSTEM
  • APPENDIX B: CERAMIC FABRIC GROUPS
  • APPENDIX C: CLAY FABRIC GROUPS
  • WORKS CITED
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