Ritual und Religion im archaischen Sizilien

Chaîne Opératoires and Communities of Practice in Local Ceramic Production at Iron Age Monte Iato (Sicily, 6th-5th Century Bce)

“…The focus of the research of the University of Innsbruck has so far been on the Iron Age settlement and its central cult site, which also form the basis of the present study. The archaic settlement lies in the middle of a dense inland network consisting of hilltop settlements with clusters of oval and rectangular houses, so-called compounds, most likely inhabited by extended families (; Isler, 2009; Kistler and Mohr, 2016;Öhlinger, 2015;Reusser et al, 2016). Such inland settlements like Monte Iato, were integrated into widely interconnected Mediterranean exchange networks via the coastal cities, where Greek and Phoenician migrants had settled from the 8th /7th century BCE onwards.…”