Craft Production of Pottery from a Bronze Age Site in North-Eastern Italy: New Results from Petrographic Analysis. Paper presented at 'Ceramic Petrology Group, Annual Meeting'. University of Sheffield, Department of Archaeology, 31 March 2012.

1. Craft production of pottery from a Bronze Age site in north-
eastern Italy: new results from petrographic analysis
Marta Tenconi
Lara Maritan
Anna Angelini

2. OUTLINE
1. Historical introduction
2. Analytical methods
3. Results
4. Conclusion

3. HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION
1.Historical Introduction 2.Analytical Methods 4.Conclusions3.Results and Discussions

4. HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION
Early Bronze Age (Polada
culture)
Middle Bronze Age-Late Bronze Age

5. HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION
Final Bronze Age/Early Iron Age
Late Bronze Age

6. HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION
Wiselburg-Gata (Early Bronze Age)
Laugen-Melaun culture (Final Bronze Age/Early Iron Age)

7. HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION
Swiss-Liechtensteinian-Austrian Alpine Rhino Valley
Inn Valley
Trentino/Alto Adige
Hungary
Adriatic area

8. 2. ANALITHICAL METHODS AND RESULTS
1.Historical Introduction 4.Conclusions3.Results and Discussions2.Analytical Methods

9. Fabric 1.2
Fabric 1.1
PETROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS

10. Fabric 1.4
Fabric 1.3
PETROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS

11. Fabric 2
Fabric 1.5
PETROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS

12. Fabric 3
PETROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS
Fabric 4
Fabric 6

13. Fabric 5
PETROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS

14. PETROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 2 3 4 5 6 Fabric Groups
Nr
27%
18%
5%
13%
4%
22%
5% 2% 2% 2%

15. PETROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS
Nr
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 2 3 4 5 6
IX
BZ F
BZ R
BZ M-BZ R
BZ A
Early Iron age
Final Bronze age
Late Bronze age
Middle Bronze age
Early Bronze age
Nr
Fabric Groups

16. PETROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS
1:100.000

17. PETROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS
Fabric 2 sediment 2

18. PETROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS
Fabric
1.1
Fabric
1.3
Sand 6

19. PETROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS
Fabric 1.4
Sand 14
Sand 8

20. PETROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS
Cdp6

21. PETROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS
Comparison with Maggetti ,1979

22. PETROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS
1:100.000
≈20 km
≈ 35-45km

23. X-RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION (XRPD)

24. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
4
5
-6 -4 -2 0 2 4 6 8
PC2
PC1
1.1-1.2-1.3-1.5
1.4
2
3
4
6
Fabric Groups:

25. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

26. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

27. CONCLUSIONS
1. pottery types common of the coeval sites of the North of Italy -a
part for some few samples-
2. Probably local or coming from the nearby (maximum 50 km)
3. Hand-made
4. Coarse paste
5. Different inclusion type in different cronological phases of the site
1.Historical Introduction 4.Conclusions3.Results and Discussions2.Analytical Methods

28. CONCLUSIONS
6. Tempered probably with local sands (only in few cases possibly
crashed)
7. Preferred temper types during the different chronological phases
of the site
8. Firing temperature: 650-850°C
Only in 13 samples below 600°C
9. Firing atmosphere: both in oxiding and reducing conditions