Cooking fabric recipes: an interdisciplinary study of Cypriot cooking pots of the Late Bronze Age. (June 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dikomitou-Eliadou, Maria; Georgiou, Artemis; Vionis, Athanasios K.
• Is Part Of: Journal of archaeological science. Volume 7(2016)
• Page Start: 451
• Page End: 457
• Publication Date: 2016-06
• Subjects: Ancient cooking pots -- Cyprus -- Late Bronze Age -- Ceramic petrography -- Regional patterns -- Ancient pottery analysis; Archaeology -- Periodicals; Archaeology -- Research -- Periodicals; 930.1
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.12.016
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2352-409X

Abstract

Abstract: This paper discusses the first results of an interdisciplinary research project on ancient cooking pots from Cyprus contextualising this ceramic corpus within its social and historical milieu . Late Bronze Age cooking pots from the urban centre of Kalavasos- Ayios Dhimitrios, and the contemporary, short-lived settlements of Pyla- Kokkinokremos and Maa- Palaeokastro were examined through typological classifications, fabric composition and the technology of their production, to determine technological and socioeconomic change. Ceramic petrography was employed for the mineralogical and technological characterisation of the samples. The inter-type and inter-site compositional and technological variability were assessed with regard to regional geology, the production and distribution of cooking pots, the character of the settlements, possible links among these settlements and other regional centres, and the historical and social processes at the final stages of the Late Bronze Age. Highlights: The interdisciplinary study of cooking pots from three Late Bronze Age sites in Cyprus. The high degree of intra-site fabric variability among the cooking pot samples from Maa-Palaeokastro. The intra- and inter-site fabric homogeneity recorded at Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios and Pyla-Kokkinokremos. The production, in the Late Bronze Age, of a cooking pot fabric already known from Early and Middle Bronze Age contexts.