Forming Identities

Download or read book Forming Identities written by Emilio Rodríguez-Álvarez and published by British Archaeological Reports (Oxford) Limited. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the manufacturingtechniques of Corinthian potters during the Archaic Period, as well as therelationships established with their natural environment. The results of thisresearch show that the advent of the Black Figure pottery style wasintrinsically related to the adoption by Corinthian potters of newmanufacturing techniques and recipes for their paints and slips. This change ofthe paint and gloss recipes required the use of new raw materials, which takesthe discussion on pottery production at the site from purely technical issuesto social and economic ones, such as access and control of these scarceresources or the relationships between potters and their local community. Thesignificance of this discovery also sheds new light upon the diversity of localstyles in Greece.