Barrel-shaped vessels in context: a long-range model of dairy production in Eastern and Central Mediterranean during the Late Fourth and Early Third Millennia BC

Published in Origini n. XXXV/2013. Rivista annuale del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità – “Sapienza” Università di Roma | Preistoria e protostoria delle civiltà antiche – Prehistory and protohistory of ancient civilizations

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Archaeology, Anthropology
Cover of the book Barrel-shaped vessels in context: a long-range model of dairy production in Eastern and Central Mediterranean during the Late Fourth and Early Third Millennia BC by Massimo Cultraro, Gangemi Editore
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Author: Massimo Cultraro ISBN: 9788849247923
Publisher: Gangemi Editore Publication: March 20, 2017
Imprint: Gangemi Editore Language: English
Author: Massimo Cultraro
ISBN: 9788849247923
Publisher: Gangemi Editore
Publication: March 20, 2017
Imprint: Gangemi Editore
Language: English

The paper aims at investigating an unusual pottery category which occurs in the Late Chalcolithic of Southern Levant, as well as in Western Anatolia, Northern Aegean and Sicily between the early Fourth and middle Third Millennium BC. In the archaeological literature of eastern Mediterranean prehistory cylindrical barrel-shaped vessels are interpreted as “churns”, because they closely resemble skin-bottles used by modern pastoral nomads in rural Anatolia for converting milk into products such as butter or light cheese. The archaeological investigations and the results of complementary chemical analyses to detect organic residues, involve some ethnographic evidence, in order to define use and function of such uncommon pottery assemblage, which represents one of the most important element of dairy production.

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The paper aims at investigating an unusual pottery category which occurs in the Late Chalcolithic of Southern Levant, as well as in Western Anatolia, Northern Aegean and Sicily between the early Fourth and middle Third Millennium BC. In the archaeological literature of eastern Mediterranean prehistory cylindrical barrel-shaped vessels are interpreted as “churns”, because they closely resemble skin-bottles used by modern pastoral nomads in rural Anatolia for converting milk into products such as butter or light cheese. The archaeological investigations and the results of complementary chemical analyses to detect organic residues, involve some ethnographic evidence, in order to define use and function of such uncommon pottery assemblage, which represents one of the most important element of dairy production.

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