Six main decorative styles have been tentatively distinguished in the Early-Middle Bronze age Capo Graziano incised pottery of the Aeolian Islands. This experimental study focuses on the analysis of 68 bowls from the islands of Lipari, Filicudi, Salina and Stromboli and from Milazzo in Sicily. The clas-sification is based on motifs and styles, and integrates typology, technology, composition and decoration in their identification. The styles are linked to production centres showing different spatial and temporal va-riations and appear to reflect different dynamics: the expert “individual” craftsman, the design in fashion, the symbolic code or the fulfilment of specific functions. The evaluation of skill in application and varia-bility in the concept are measured in order to assess the social implications in the production of the pottery. This interim investigation will continue to refine the chronology and to establish the decorative styles in other Aeolian Islands. It is possible that schematic elements in the decorative styles, such as undulating lines and metopes, reflect the maritime and insular environment of the Aeolian Islands.

OLD OR NEW WAVES IN CAPO GRAZIANO DECORATIVE STYLES? / Levi, SARA TIZIANA; Martinelli, Maria Clara; Vertuani, Paola; Williams, Jones. - In: ORIGINI. - ISSN 0474-6805. - STAMPA. - 36:(2014), pp. 213-244.

OLD OR NEW WAVES IN CAPO GRAZIANO DECORATIVE STYLES?

LEVI, SARA TIZIANA;
2014

Abstract

Six main decorative styles have been tentatively distinguished in the Early-Middle Bronze age Capo Graziano incised pottery of the Aeolian Islands. This experimental study focuses on the analysis of 68 bowls from the islands of Lipari, Filicudi, Salina and Stromboli and from Milazzo in Sicily. The clas-sification is based on motifs and styles, and integrates typology, technology, composition and decoration in their identification. The styles are linked to production centres showing different spatial and temporal va-riations and appear to reflect different dynamics: the expert “individual” craftsman, the design in fashion, the symbolic code or the fulfilment of specific functions. The evaluation of skill in application and varia-bility in the concept are measured in order to assess the social implications in the production of the pottery. This interim investigation will continue to refine the chronology and to establish the decorative styles in other Aeolian Islands. It is possible that schematic elements in the decorative styles, such as undulating lines and metopes, reflect the maritime and insular environment of the Aeolian Islands.
2014
36
213
244
OLD OR NEW WAVES IN CAPO GRAZIANO DECORATIVE STYLES? / Levi, SARA TIZIANA; Martinelli, Maria Clara; Vertuani, Paola; Williams, Jones. - In: ORIGINI. - ISSN 0474-6805. - STAMPA. - 36:(2014), pp. 213-244.
Levi, SARA TIZIANA; Martinelli, Maria Clara; Vertuani, Paola; Williams, Jones
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