Material Koinai in the Greek Early Iron Age and Archaic Period

Søren Handberg (Edt.)

Description

The ancient Greek word koine was used to describe the new common language dialect that became widespread in the ancient Greek world after the conquests of Alexander the Great. Modern scholars have increasingly used the word to conceptualise regional homogeneities in the material culture of the ancient Mediterranean. In this volume, twenty scholars from various disciplines present case studies that focus on the fundamental question of how to perceive and the social and cultural mechanisms that led to the spread and consumption of material culture in the Greek early Iron Age. Combined the chapters provide a critical examination of the use of the koine concept as a heuristic tool in historical research and discuss to what degree similarities in material culture reflect cultural connections. The volume will be of interest scholars interested in archaeological theory and method, the social significance of material culture, and the history of the ancient Greek world in the first half of the first millennium BC.

Sujets

• Archaeology
• Ancient Greece
• Ancient history
• Iron Age
• Greece

Informations

• Publié par: Aarhus University Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9788771845693
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 29 Mo

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Material Koinai in the Greek Early Iron Age and Archaic Period
MATERIAL KOINAI IN THE GREEK
EARLY IRON AGE AND ARCHAIC PERIOD
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and Te Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo. Contents
7 Introduction to Material Koinai
Søren Handberg & Anastasia Gadolou
17 Anthropological Refections on the Koine Concept:
Linguistic Analogies and Material Worlds
Michael Dietler
POTTERY PRODUCTION AND THE FORMATION OF MATERIAL,
OR CULTURAL KOINAI
43 Te ‘Euboean’ Koine: Reassessing Patterns of Cross-Cultural Interaction and Exchange in
the North-Western Aegean Region
Lieve Donnellan
65 Te Early Iron Age Pottery from Mt. Lykaion and the Western Greek Koine*
Mary E. Voyatzis
*91 Material Koine: Constructing a Narrative of Identity in Archaic Corinth
Angela Ziskowski
109 Scales of Ceramic Analysis on Naxos (Cyclades)
Xenia Charalambidou, Evangelia Kiriatzi & Noémi S. Müller
*133 Material Koine and the Case of Phaleron Cups: Conventions and Reality
Florentia Fragkopoulou & †Eleni ZosiCROSS CULTURAL CONNECTIONS
AND MATERIAL AND CULTURAL KOINAI
169 Observations on Euboean Koinai in Southern Italy
Jan Kindberg Jacobsen, Sine Grove Saxkjær & Gloria Paola Mittica
th th191 Material Koinai in Te West: Achaean Colonial Pottery Production Between the 8 and 6
Centuries BC
Maria Rosaria Luberto
221 Craftsmen and Technologies in the Corinthia: Te Development of the Doric Order
David Scahill
245 Archaic Chalkis in Aetolia: Evidence for a Specialised Textile Production Developed
in the Adriatic-Ionian Region
Sanne Houby-Nielsen
289 Regional Styles of Transport Amphora Production in rhe Archaic Aegean
Mark Lawall
THE MATERIAL KOINAI OF WINE DRINKING
315 Te ‘Middle-Geometric Attic Koine’ and the Rise of the Aristocratic Symposion
Marek Węcowski
323 Tapsos-Class Pottery Style: a Language of Common Communication Between the
Corinthian Gulf Communities
Anastasia Gadolou
343 ‘Culture’ in a Cup? Customs and Economies in the Western Mediterranean
Ulrike Krotscheck
359 List of Contributors
363 Index of Ancient Names
365 Index of Place NamesIntroduction to Material Koinai
Søren Handberg & Anastasia Gadolou
Te word koine is an ancient Greek word, the lit- ties in the use of architectural terracotta from the
eral translation of which is ‘common’ or ‘shared’. northern Peloponnese and the Achaean apoikiai
4In antiquity, the word was used, foremost, to d-e in Italy. Most recently the term has been used
exscribe the common Greek dialect that fourished tensively in the ongoing discussion of the so-called
1in the Hellenistic period, but in research within ‘Euboean koine’, which centres on the question of
Mediterranean Archaeology the term has recently, the extent, both geographically and in terms of
soand increasingly, been used conceptually to denote cial and cultural homogeneity, of the Euboeans in
5perceived similarities in various aspects of material the Aegean and on the Greek mainland. Apart
culture, usually within a bounded geographical area from describing regional groups in material culture,
or chronological period. the conceptual framework of the term has also been
A prominent example of such a conceptual usage extended to include notions such as religious koinai
6of the term has been the description of the app-ar and cultural koinai.
ent uniformity and spread of artistic motives in A precise defnition of koine terminology is
various materials in the Mycenaean Palatial peri- rarely ofered by the scholars who use it, but,
look2od. Te term koine has also been used to denote ing at the various ways in which the term has been
various perceived regional groups of pottery styles, employed in archaeological scholarship, it is clear
especially in western Greece, from the Mycenaean that the term is loaded with an extensive range of
3period through to Hellenistic times. To a lesser implicit connotations. More precisely, concerning
extent, the term has also been used in regard to material culture, the term koine most ofen implies
ancient Greek architecture, for instance, in similar-i
4 Barello 1995, see also the review of the volume in
1 See Dietler in this volume, 18. Fischer-Hansen 1997. For the use of koine to describe
2 For Bronze Age material koinai, see e.g. Hood 1978, similarities in Ptolemaic architecture extending to
Rho291; Feldman 2002; 2006; Galanakis 2009; Petrakis des, see Caliò 2010.
2009. For references to a late Bronze Age metallurg-i 5 For the Euboean koine, see especially Lemos 1998;
cal koine that included Sicily, Sardinia and the Iberian 2002, 212-7; Papadopoulos 2011. For further discu-s
Peninsula, see Sherratt 2012, 160. sions and modifcations of the Euboian koine, see De-s
3 Te Bronze Age: Papadopoulos 1995, but see also the borough 1977; Papadopoulos 1997; 2014, 186;
Gimatzcritical comment in Dickinson 2006, 19; Te early Iron idis 2011, 958-9; Mazarakis Ainian 2010; 2012. See also
Age: Coulson 1991: 44; Coldstream, 2008, 220. Te Ar- Donnellan and Jacobsen, et al. in this volume.
chaic period: Papadopoulos 2001. Te Classical period: 6 A ‘pan-Cyprian’ koine has, for instance, been reco-g
Petropoulos, 2005; Gravani 2009. For these regional nised, see Iacovou 1999, 150; 2008; Knapp 2012, 46. See
7styles, see also Coldstream 1983. also Dietler in this volume, 21-2.
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more than just shared features in the material culture foreign ‘infuences’ plays a prominent role in many
of an area, whether this is expressed in, for instance, archaeological studies. However, merely pointing to
7pottery styles, architecture or burial practices. Tere stylistic infuences, and thus, in these cases, a pro -
has been a tendency in archaeological research to cess of koineisation, has little interpretive power in
uncritically assume that some meaningful conne-c itself. In 1991, James Whitley described this in the
tion exists between shared material culture and, for following way in his book Style and Society in Dark
instance, social values and forms of social orga-ni Age Greece:
sation. Te term thus carries with it concepts such
as increased contact, infuence, cultural and social “Te terminology of ‘infuence’ subtly avoids the
difintegration as well as issues of common identity and fcult but important questions of why any community
aesthetic values. Such underlying connotations are, would wish to make use of another’s material culture,
however, rarely examined in any detail, and expla- and why there have always been diferent degrees of
10nations for the existence of shared material culture acceptance of, or resistance to, the exotic”.
are ofen vague or ambiguous, as has recently been
8emphasised by some scholars. Te underlying assumption that similarities in mate-
It is clear that standardisation in local produc- rial culture can be equated with, for instance, shared
tion, adoption of foreign objects or practices, is religious beliefs cannot be taken for granted, but
central to the conceptualisation of the koine te-r must be substantiated by paying close attention to
minology, and from this point of view, Vladimir the contextual circumstances of the archaeological
Stissi has put the implicit character of the broader material. In a sense, by employing the koine
terissues this way: minology we face the risk of using the term as a
heuristic device, much as the concept of ‘culture’
11“For obvious reasons, archaeological studies of stand- has been used in the past. Critics o