The production and distribution of cooking pots in two towns of South East Spain in the 6th–11th centuries

López, José Cristobal Carvajal; Day, Peter M.

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.03.002

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“…The social dynamics of the town and of the area of the Vega of Granada were very different, and they would not run in parallel until several centuries after the conquest, when the Umayyad state of Cordoba expanded and created a social organisation based in towns which reflected and reproduced the power of the state in distant areas like the Vega of Granada, where the town in particular was Ilbīra(Carvajal López 2008;2009). The research undertaken by the author has focused on the change of technological systems of production of cooking pots in different sites of the Vega of Granada between the 7 th and the 12 th centuries CE(Carvajal López and Day 2013;2015). In this period of time, two transcendental changes took place.…”

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Crafting History: How the World Is Made. The Case of Islamic Archaeology

López

2018

Crafting in the World

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In this paper an archaeological and theoretical perspective that builds a relationship between the concepts of craft and of identity is presented. Both of them are concepts very widely used in archaeological and anthropological theory nowadays, and they have often been linked in field studies. However these concepts are usually contemplated from very different points of view and with many diverse implication in each case. One of the aims of this paper is to show that craft and identity can be inserted in a common theoretical framework which in turn can be used to understand cultural change, or, in other words, history within culture. The paper will start with a necessary theoretical introduction to different concepts related to craft and identity, and then a discussion on how to link these different concepts will follow. In the last part of the paper, this theoretical perspective will be applied to a field which is familiar to the author, that of Islamic archaeology. A case example of the author's research in the Vega of Granada (south east Spain) will be brought to the fore. This part of the paper will show how the theoretical discussion developed above can contribute to solve one of the core questions of this field, that of the definition of an Islamic culture and its application to understand the daily life of people living within it. AGENCY, ACTION, CRAFT AND IDENTITYThe works of B. Malinowsky (1961Malinowsky ( [1922) and P. Bourdieu (1977; are essential in the understanding of action as key to the process of transmitting and creating concepts and schemas that shape the individuals and the society (Bloch 2012: 149-154). If Malinowsky has not been so profusely quoted in archaeological theory, Bourdieu (1977;Giddens (1984), ultimately inspired by him, have been widely used and discussed in the discipline since the 80s. Perhaps one of the most relevant application of these ideas in archaeological theory in general is in the work of J. Barrett (1994), who defended the idea that archaeology should reconstruct the material conditions of life of past communities in order to enable us to understand the possibilities and constraints that

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The late medieval and early modern ceramics in the city of Córdoba (Andalusia, Spain). Christian productions under the Islamic tradition

Llorens

Garrigós

Fernández

2022

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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The archaeological knowledge of the material culture in the city of Córdoba (Andalusia, Spain) during the late medieval and early modern periods is very scarce. Urban rescue excavations and archive sources evidence that the so-called Barrio de las Ollerías (potters’ quarter) was the main ceramic production area from the early medieval period until the end of the early modern period. Nevertheless, there is a total lack of archaeological and archaeometric studies since research has traditionally focused on Seville city and other production centres closer to the Atlantic Coast. However, archaeological and archaeometric studies concerning Islamic pottery have increased in Córdoba in the last years, although there is a lack of studies on the late medieval and early modern ceramic production. This article aims to contribute to filling this gap through an exhaustive study of the ceramic production of Córdoba in this period. As a first objective, studying the ceramics recovered from the workshops will enable us to define the chemical reference groups (RG). The second step will be the approach to the technology used by the potters for the elaboration of the different products. With these objectives in mind, 120 individuals have been chemically characterised using x-ray fluorescence analysis (XRF) and mineralogically through x-ray diffraction analysis (XRD). The sample includes tin-lead glazed vessels, coarse and cooking ware vessels, and storage and transport jars dated from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries.

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An Archaeometric Investigation of Early and Middle Bronze Age Pottery From the Upper Meander Basin in Southwestern Anatolia

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Abay²,

Dedeoğlu³

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The production and distribution of cooking pots in two towns of South East Spain in the 6th–11th centuries

Cited by 3 publications

References 5 publications

Crafting History: How the World Is Made. The Case of Islamic Archaeology

Crafting History: How the World Is Made. The Case of Islamic Archaeology

The late medieval and early modern ceramics in the city of Córdoba (Andalusia, Spain). Christian productions under the Islamic tradition

An Archaeometric Investigation of Early and Middle Bronze Age Pottery From the Upper Meander Basin in Southwestern Anatolia

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