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Abstract
David Small's attempt (JMA this issue) to explain the appearance, at major centers in the late Minoan-Mycenaean world, of dark-surfaced, handmade, and burnished vessels as a response to economic stress by native Aegean smallholders is reviewed. With the possible exception of the terminal Mycenaean material from Kalapodi in Phocis, Small's hypothesis fails to explain the ceramic data presently known: the novel pottery in question is distinguished not merely by its technology but also by a typology of shape and decoration which Small has ignored because he mistakenly considers it more or less universal in the context of a household mode of production.
A brief review of such issues as this handmade pottery's distribution, frequency, impact on native Aegean wheelmade wares, and function(s) within the Minoan-Mycenaean world leads to the conclusion that past evaluations of the origins and significance of this material have probably been unduly oversimplified. Future progress on addressing these and related questions is dependent on fuller publication of this fundamentally non-Aegean pottery in the Minoan and Aegean contexts in which it has been found.
David Small试图解释在米诺斯-迈锡尼世界晚期的主要中心出现的深色表面,手工制作和抛光的容器,作为对当地爱琴海小农经济压力的回应。可能除了来自福基斯卡拉波迪的迈锡尼晚期材料之外,斯莫尔的假设未能解释目前已知的陶瓷数据:所讨论的新型陶器不仅以其技术而闻名,而且还以其形状和装饰的类型而闻名,斯莫尔忽略了这一点,因为他错误地认为它或多或少在家庭生产方式的背景下是普遍的。对这种手工陶器的分布、使用频率、对爱琴海本土轮制陶器的影响以及在米诺斯-迈锡尼世界中的作用等问题进行简要回顾,就会得出这样的结论:过去对这种材料的起源和意义的评估可能过于简单化了。解决这些问题和相关问题的未来进展取决于在米诺斯和爱琴海环境中发现的这种基本非爱琴海陶器的更全面的出版。
期刊介绍:
JMA currently operates as the most progressive and valid podium for archaeological discussion and debate in Europe European Journal of Archaeology Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology is the only journal currently published that deals with the entire multicultural world of Mediterranean archaeology. The journal publishes material that deals with, amongst others, the social, politicoeconomic and ideological aspects of local or regional production and development, and of social interaction and change in the Mediterranean.