Supervisors info:
Ιωάννης Παπαδάτος, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής Προϊστορικής Αρχαιολογίας, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Κωνσταντίνος Κοπανιάς, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής Αρχαιολογίας Ανατολικής Μεσογείου, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Αφροδίτη Χασιακού, Λέκτορας Προϊστορικής Αρχαιολογίας, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Summary:
The meaning and importance of technology is not a stable and established framework, but a field that has changed significantly in the evolution of human history. Until the 1970s, technology theories focused more on mechanistic interpretations of the issue, focusing on the description of innovation and less on processes, on any common ideological backgrounds and, more generally, on the human presence and energy behind the material remains. Over the last two decades, there has been strong criticism of traditional assumptions about the relationship between technology and society, and the interest of scholars is now centered on the sociopolitical dynamics and ideological systems that form the basis of technological practice in space and time. More specifically, the product of the above approaches is a rethinking of technology, which defines it as a widespread and powerful system of practices between society and the material world, influenced by individual and group interests, group and individual ideologies, policies, identities, symbolic representations and more general modes of action. Such communication between people and objects is characterized as a "signaling behavior," as a framework of social rules and behaviors that is achieved through the acquisition, possession and display of material goods.
Within this framework, the present work aims at the presentation and approach of ceramics in the area of Argolid-Corinthia, from about 4,500 to 2,300 BC, through its technology but also as a product of technical skills. The aim is to approach ceramics on the basis of the shape criteria, decoration, surface treatment, as well as the study of the continuous and discontinuity of ceramic rhythms and ceramic technologies between the Final Neolithic and the EH III period. Based on this approach and by accepting the close relationship of technology with other non-material cultural parameters, we believe that we will be able to look at issues related to the political, cultural and social conditions of these periods. The historical context shows a gradual multiplicity in all areas of the economy, society and the arts, and therefore our aim is to see if similar elements are also reflected in the technology of ceramic production. More specifically, the core objective of the work is also to connect and interpret the technological changes and innovations that we will see with changes in the socio-economic structures of the corresponding historical and spatial framework.
Keywords:
Pottery technology, Northeast Peloponnese, Final Neolithic Period, Bronze Age, Social-economic conditions
