Elymian regional interaction in Iron Age western Sicily: a preliminary neutron activation study of incised/impressed tablewares |
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| Institution: | 1. Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Universidade Aberta, Rua da Escola Politécnica, 147, 1261-001 Lisboa, Portugal;2. Departamento de Geografía, Historia y Humanidades, Universidad de Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain;3. Institut National du Patrimoine, Ministère de la Culture, 4 Place du Château, 1008 Tunis, Tunisia;4. Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain;5. Department of Archaeology, Ghent University, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 35, B-9000 Gent, Belgium;1. ERAAUB: Equip de Recerca Arqueològica i Arqueomètrica de la Universitat de Barcelona, Spain;2. Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain;3. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare (DiSTeM), Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy |
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| Abstract: | Neutron activation analysis of indigenous ceramics from western Sicily reveals five compositional clay types used in production, suggesting specific exchange patterns around the 5th century BCE, at a time of escalating Greek and Phoenician colonial intrusions. A sample of 62 incised/impressed tableware specimens suggests that ceramic manufacture was organized on a regional level with distinct patterns of intra-group trade of vessels, and that the distribution of these ceramics has important implications for the refinement of cultural–historical affiliations of western Sicily at this time. In fact, the spatial distribution of one of these compositional groups appears to directly correspond with epigraphic data regarding the presence of the Elymians centered at Segesta. |
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